1998_World_Weightlifting_Championships_–_Men's_62_kg
The 1998 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Lahti, Finland November 7–15, 1998. The men's competition in the featherweight (– 62 kg) division was staged on November 9, 1998.
Main article: 1998 World Weightlifting Championships
More information Event, Gold ...
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) | 147.5 kg |  Nikolaj Pešalov (CRO) | 145.0 kg |  Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) | 140.0 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) | 172.5 kg | Nikolaj Pešalov (CRO) | 172.5 kg | Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) | 170.0 kg |
| Total | Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) | 320.0 kg | Nikolaj Pešalov (CRO) | 317.5 kg | Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) | 310.0 kg |
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Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | World Standard | 145.0 kg | — | 1 January 1998 |
| Clean & Jerk | World Standard | 180.0 kg | — | 1 January 1998 | |
| Total | World Standard | 325.0 kg | — | 1 January 1998 |
More information Rank, Athlete ...
| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | ||||
 | Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) | 61.76 | 140.0 | 145.0 | 147.5 | | 167.5 | 172.5 | | 320.0 | |
 | Nikolaj Pešalov (CRO) | 61.80 | 140.0 | 145.0 | | 172.5 | | 317.5 | |||
 | Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) | 61.32 | 132.5 | 137.5 | 140.0 | | 162.5 | 170.0 | | 310.0 | |
| 4 |  Su Feixiang (CHN) | 61.67 | 135.0 | 140.0 | 5 | 170.0 | 5 | 310.0 | |||
| 5 | Le Maosheng (CHN) | 61.48 | 137.5 | 6 | 170.0 | 4 | 307.5 | ||||
| 6 | Valentin Sarov (BUL) | 61.57 | 135.0 | 140.0 | 4 | 162.5 | 7 | 302.5 | |||
| 7 |  Zoltán Farkas (HUN) | 61.78 | 137.5 | 137.5 | 8 | 165.0 | 165.0 | 6 | 302.5 | ||
| 8 |  Vladimir Popov (MDA) | 61.60 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 132.5 | 9 | 155.0 | 157.5 | 162.5 | 8 | 295.0 |
| 9 |  Hafız Süleymanoğlu (TUR) | 61.63 | 137.5 | 7 | 157.5 | 12 | 295.0 | ||||
| 10 |  Yurik Sarkisyan (AUS) | 61.83 | 122.5 | 127.5 | 11 | 152.5 | 157.5 | 160.0 | 11 | 287.5 | |
| 11 |  Marcus Stephen (NRU) | 61.91 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 12 | 162.5 | 9 | 287.5 | |||
| 12 |  Oleg Shin (KAZ) | 61.58 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 10 | 147.5 | 152.5 | 13 | 282.5 | |
| 13 |  Roger Berrio (COL) | 61.83 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 122.5 | 13 | 145.0 | 150.0 | 14 | 272.5 | |
| 14 |  Alfonso Portillo (ESP) | 61.53 | 110.0 | 115.0 | 15 | 140.0 | 145.0 | 15 | 260.0 | ||
| 15 |  Jyrki Welling (FIN) | 61.76 | 107.5 | 112.5 | 115.0 | 16 | 137.5 | 142.5 | 18 | 257.5 | |
| 16 |  Michael Garrido (FRA) | 61.65 | 112.5 | 17 | 142.5 | 17 | 255.0 | ||||
| 17 |  Tom Goegebuer (BEL) | 60.98 | 110.0 | 18 | 137.5 | 142.5 | 16 | 252.5 | |||
| 18 |  Chen Po-pu (TPE) | 61.32 | 110.0 | 19 | 140.0 | 19 | 250.0 | ||||
| 19 |  Nuno Alves (POR) | 61.10 | 102.5 | 107.5 | 20 | 130.0 | 20 | 237.5 | |||
| 20 |  Wayne Healy (IRE) | 61.25 | 90.0 | 95.0 | 21 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 21 | 225.0 | |
| 21 |  Badru Nyamuja (UGA) | 61.60 | 95.0 | 22 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 22 | 225.0 | |||
| — | Laurent Pedreno (FRA) | 61.69 | 112.5 | 117.5 | 14 | — | — | ||||
| — |  Mohamed Osman (EGY) | 61.47 | — | 150.0 | 160.0 | 10 | — | ||||
| — | Jarkko Welling (FIN) | 61.52 | — | 120.0 | 127.5 | 23 | — | ||||
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| Snatch | 147.5 kg | Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) |
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