2007 European Weightlifting Championships

Last updated February 01, 2023

The 2007 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Strasbourg, France from 17 April to 22 April 2007. It was the 86th edition of the event, which was first staged in 1896.

Medal overview

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
– 56 kg details	Igor Bour	Vitali Dzerbianiou	Igor Grabucea
– 62 kg details	Sergey Petrosyan	Henadzy Makhveyenia	Erol Bilgin
– 69 kg details	Vencelas Dabaya	Tigran G. Martirosyan	Vladislav Lukanin
– 77 kg details	Gevorg Davtyan	Ara Khachatryan	Taner Sağır
– 85 kg details	Valeriu Calancea	İzzet İnce	Vadzim Straltsou
– 94 kg details	Szymon Kołecki	Roman Konstantinov	Evgheni Bratan
– 105 kg details	Martin Tešovič	Gleb Pisarevskiy	Dmitry Lapikov
+ 105 kg details	Viktors Ščerbatihs	Evgeny Chigishev	Paweł Najdek

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
– 48 kg details	Estefania Juan	Nurcan Taylan	Genny Caterina Pagliaro
– 53 kg details	Marioara Munteanu	Nataliya Trotsenko	Svetlana Ulyanova
– 58 kg ^[1] details	Marina Shainova	Ruth Kasirye	Aleksandra Klejnowska
– 63 kg details	Meline Daluzyan	Sibel Şimşek	Hanna Batsiushka
– 69 kg details	Oxana Slivenko	Nazik Avdalyan	Natalya Davydova
– 75 kg details	Hripsime Khurshudyan	Tatiana Matveeva	Lydia Valentín
+ 75 kg details	Olha Korobka	Katsiaryna Shkuratava	Yuliya Dovhal

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	3	4	3	10
2	Armenia	3	3	0	6
3	Romania	2	0	0	2
4	Ukraine	1	1	2	4
5	Moldova	1	0	2	3
5	Poland	1	0	2	3
7	Spain	1	0	1	2
8	France	1	0	0	1
	Latvia	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
11	Belarus	0	3	2	5
11	Turkey	0	3	2	5
13	Norway	0	1	0	1
14	Italy	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		15	15	15	45

Notes

↑ Fetie Kasaj from Albania originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified because of a positive drugs test. See Fardal, Eirik (2007-06-27). "Bronse ble EM-sølv". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 2011-05-23. Retrieved 2007-06-27.

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References

Results of the 2007 European Weightlifting Championships (in French)

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[1] Fetie Kasaj from Albania originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified because of a positive drugs test. See Fardal, Eirik (2007-06-27). "Bronse ble EM-sølv". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 2011-05-23. Retrieved 2007-06-27.

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