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1999 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 85 kg

1999 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 85 kg

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The Men's Light-Heavyweight Weightlifting Event (85 kg) is the fifth men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limited to competitors with a maximum of 85 kilograms of body mass. The competition at the 1999 World Weightlifting Championships took place in Athens, Greece on 26 November 1999.

Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted.

Medalists

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Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.

World RecordSnatch Georgi Gardev (BUL)180.0 kgA Coruña, Spain17 April 1999
Clean & Jerk Zhang Yong (CHN)218.0 kgRamat Gan, Israel25 April 1998
TotalWorld Standard395.0 kg1 January 1998

Results

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New records

Snatch 180.5 kg  Pyrros Dimas (GRE) WR

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