| 2002 World Weightlifting Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| Men | Women | |
| 56 kg | 48 kg | |
| 62 kg | 53 kg | |
| 69 kg | 58 kg | |
| 77 kg | 63 kg | |
| 85 kg | 69 kg | |
| 94 kg | 75 kg | |
| 105 kg | +75 kg | |
| +105 kg | ||
The 2002 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Warsaw, Poland from 19 November to 26 November. The men's 62 kilograms division was staged on 20 November 2002.
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 20 November 2002 | 10:00 | Group B |
| 17:00 | Group A |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Le Maosheng (CHN) | 140.0 kg |  Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) | 140.0 kg |  Im Yong-su (PRK) | 140.0 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Im Yong-su (PRK) | 175.0 kg |  Stefan Georgiev (BUL) | 172.5 kg | Le Maosheng (CHN) | 170.0 kg |
| Total | Im Yong-su (PRK) | 315.0 kg | Le Maosheng (CHN) | 310.0 kg | Stefan Georgiev (BUL) | 310.0 kg |
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Shi Zhiyong (CHN) | 153.0 kg | İzmir, Turkey | 28 June 2002 |
| Clean & Jerk | Le Maosheng (CHN) | 182.5 kg | Busan, South Korea | 2 October 2002 | |
| Total | World Standard | 325.0 kg | — | 1 January 1998 |
| Rank | Athlete | Group | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
 | Im Yong-su (PRK) | A | 61.75 | 135.0 | 140.0 |  | 170.0 | 175.0 | | 315.0 | ||
 | Le Maosheng (CHN) | A | 61.50 | 140.0 | | 170.0 | | 310.0 | ||||
| Stefan Georgiev (BUL) | A | 62.00 | 132.5 | 137.5 | 4 | 172.5 | | 310.0 | |||
| 4 | Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) | A | 61.60 | 140.0 | | 160.0 | 167.5 | 4 | 307.5 | |||
| 5 |  Oleksandr Likhvald (UKR) | A | 61.65 | 130.0 | 6 | 157.5 | 162.5 | 5 | 292.5 | |||
| 6 |  Diego Salazar (COL) | B | 61.90 | 127.5 | 132.5 | 5 | 160.0 | 7 | 292.5 | |||
| 7 |  Artur Danielyan (ARM) | A | 61.90 | 130.0 | 7 | 155.0 | 160.0 | 8 | 290.0 | |||
| 8 |  İsmail Atmaca (TUR) | A | 61.75 | 125.0 | 11 | 150.0 | 160.0 | 6 | 285.0 | |||
| 9 |  Samson Matam (FRA) | A | 61.80 | 122.5 | 127.5 | 12 | 152.5 | 157.5 | 9 | 280.0 | ||
| 10 |  Toshio Imamura (JPN) | B | 61.50 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 10 | 152.5 | 10 | 277.5 | |||
| 11 |  Oleg Shin (KAZ) | B | 61.55 | 125.0 | 127.5 | 9 | 145.0 | 150.0 | 11 | 277.5 | ||
| 12 |  Giuliano Cornetta (ITA) | B | 61.95 | 110.0 | 117.5 | 13 | 140.0 | 12 | 257.5 | |||
| 13 |  Miloš Sušanj (CRO) | B | 61.80 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 14 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 13 | 220.0 | ||
| — | Su Feixiang (CHN) | A | 61.80 | — | — | — | ||||||
| — |  Elkhan Suleymanov (AZE) | A | 61.90 | 130.0 | 8 | — | — | — | — | |||