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The 2005 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria from April 19 to April 24, 2005. It was the 84th edition of the event. There were a total number of 185 athletes competing, from 30 nations.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| – 56 kg |  Sedat Artuç | Erol Bilgin |  Vitali Dzerbianiou |
| – 62 kg |  Sevdalin Minchev |  Adrian Jigau | Stefan Georgiev |
| – 69 kg | Demir Demirev | Ferit Sen | Mehmed Fikretov |
| – 77 kg | Taner Sağır | Sebastian Dogariu | Ivan Stoitsov |
| – 85 kg | Ruslan Novikov | Valeriu Calancea |  Arsen Melikyan |
| – 94 kg | Hakan Yilmaz |  Andrey Skorobogatov |  Kostyantyn Piliyev |
| – 105 kg | Vladimir Smorchkov | Bünyamin Sudaş |  Ramūnas Vyšniauskas |
| + 105 kg |  Viktors Ščerbatihs | Evgeny Chigishev | Ashot Danielyan |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| – 48 kg | Svetlana Ulyanova |  Rebecca Sires Rodrigez | Donka Mincheva |
| – 53 kg | Nastassia Novikava | Marioara Munteanu | Nataliya Trotsenko |
| – 58 kg | Marina Shainova |  Aleksandra Klejnowska | Marieta Gotfryd |
| – 63 kg | Svetlana Shimkova | Dominika Misterska | Gergana Kirilova |
| – 69 kg | Zarema Kasayeva | Olga Kiseleva | Nataliya Davydova |
| – 75 kg | Svetlana Podobedova | Valentina Popova | Rumyana Petkova |
| + 75 kg | Viktoriya Shaimardanova | Yuliya Dovhal | Yordanka Apostolova |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russia | 6 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | Turkey | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 | Bulgaria | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 |
| 4 | Belarus | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Latvia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Romania | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Poland | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Armenia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (11 entries) | 15 | 15 | 15 | 45 | |
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