| 2021 World Weightlifting Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| Men | Women | |
| 55 kg | 45 kg | |
| 61 kg | 49 kg | |
| 67 kg | 55 kg | |
| 73 kg | 59 kg | |
| 81 kg | 64 kg | |
| 89 kg | 71 kg | |
| 96 kg | 76 kg | |
| 102 kg | 81 kg | |
| 109 kg | 87 kg | |
| +109 kg | +87 kg | |
The men's 96 kilograms competition at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 13 and 14 December 2021. [1]
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 13 December 2021 | 21:30 | Group D |
| 14 December 2021 | 08:30 | Group C |
| 13:00 | Group B | |
| 16:00 | Group A |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Lesman Paredes (COL) | 187 kg |  Boady Santavy (CAN) | 178 kg |  Keydomar Vallenilla (VEN) | 177 kg |
| Clean & Jerk |  Fares El-Bakh (QAT) | 222 kg |  Artyom Antropov (KAZ) | 221 kg | Keydomar Vallenilla (VEN) | 214 kg |
| Total | Lesman Paredes (COL) | 400 kg | Fares El-Bakh (QAT) | 394 kg | Keydomar Vallenilla (VEN) | 391 kg |
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch |  Sohrab Moradi (IRI) | 186 kg | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 7 November 2018 |
| Clean & Jerk |  Tian Tao (CHN) | 231 kg | Tokyo, Japan | 7 July 2019 | |
| Total | Sohrab Moradi (IRI) | 416 kg | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 7 November 2018 |
| Rank | Athlete | Group | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | ||||
 | Lesman Paredes (COL) | A | 180 | 187 | | 208 | 213 | 4 | 400 | ||
 | Fares El-Bakh (QAT) | A | 172 | 6 | 217 | 222 | | 394 | |||
 | Keydomar Vallenilla (VEN) | A | 172 | 175 | 177 | | 210 | 214 | | 391 | |
| 4 | Artyom Antropov (KAZ) | A | 160 | 164 | 13 | 216 | 221 | | 385 | ||
| 5 | Boady Santavy (CAN) | A | 172 | 176 | 178 | | 201 | 13 | 379 | ||
| 6 | Reza Dehdar (IRI) | A | 168 | 172 | 7 | 207 | 9 | 379 | |||
| 7 |  Georgi Kuptsov (RWF) | A | 164 | 169 | 174 | 4 | 204 | 11 | 378 | ||
| 8 |  Ahmed Sayed Ali (EGY) | B | 165 | 11 | 207 | 212 | 5 | 377 | |||
| 9 |  Romain Imadouchène (FRA) | B | 155 | 160 | 17 | 205 | 210 | 212 | 6 | 372 | |
| 10 | Andrés Serna (COL) | B | 153 | 158 | 163 | 15 | 198 | 203 | 208 | 7 | 371 |
| 11 |  Davit Hovhannisyan (ARM) | B | 165 | 9 | 200 | 205 | 10 | 370 | |||
| 12 | Hakob Mkrtchyan (ARM) | A | 163 | 16 | 207 | 8 | 370 | ||||
| 13 |  Petr Asayonak (BLR) | B | 165 | 10 | 196 | 202 | 12 | 367 | |||
| 14 | Artur Babayan (RWF) | A | 165 | 12 | 200 | 14 | 365 | ||||
| 15 |  Anton Pliesnoi (GEO) | B | 170 | 8 | 190 | — | — | 19 | 360 | ||
| 16 |  Ali Al-Khazal (KSA) | C | 154 | 159 | 163 | 14 | 194 | 16 | 357 | ||
| 17 | Irakli Gobejishvili (GEO) | C | 154 | 158 | 18 | 183 | 188 | 22 | 346 | ||
| 18 |  Antonis Martasidis (CYP) | C | 145 | 153 | 21 | 185 | 190 | 18 | 343 | ||
| 19 |  Khojiakbar Olimov (UZB) | C | 148 | 152 | 23 | 180 | 186 | 191 | 17 | 343 | |
| 20 |  Saddam Messaoui (ALG) | C | 155 | 19 | 185 | 24 | 340 | ||||
| 21 |  Vikas Thakur (IND) | C | 150 | 24 | 183 | 189 | 21 | 339 | |||
| 22 |  Wilmer Contreras (ECU) | C | 147 | 150 | 152 | 22 | 183 | 25 | 335 | ||
| 23 | Jagdish Vishwakarma (IND) | D | 137 | 142 | 26 | 180 | 186 | 23 | 328 | ||
| 24 |  Weeraphat Boonlang (THA) | D | 140 | 146 | 25 | 160 | 173 | 181 | 26 | 327 | |
| 25 |  Yannick Tschan (SUI) | D | 138 | 142 | 27 | 175 | 179 | 28 | 321 | ||
| 26 |  Joël Essama (CMR) | D | 130 | 138 | 28 | 170 | 175 | 29 | 313 | ||
| 27 |  John Tabique (PHI) | D | 130 | 137 | 29 | 167 | 30 | 304 | |||
| 28 |  Cédric Coret (MRI) | D | 130 | 32 | 166 | 31 | 296 | ||||
| 29 |  Shanaka Peters (SRI) | D | 125 | 130 | 31 | 165 | 32 | 295 | |||
| 30 |  Jiarul Islam (BAN) | D | 117 | 123 | 33 | 143 | 153 | 33 | 276 | ||
| — |  Chen Po-jen (TPE) | A | 170 | 173 | 5 | — | — | ||||
| — |  Leho Pent (EST) | C | 153 | 20 | — | — | |||||
| — |  John Cheah (SGP) | D | 134 | 30 | — | — | |||||
| — | Abdalla Galal Mostafa (EGY) | B | — | 195 | 15 | — | |||||
| — |  Gerasimos Galiatsatos (GRE) | B | — | 190 | 20 | — | |||||
| — |  Forrester Osei (GHA) | C | — | 175 | 181 | 27 | — | ||||
| — |  Marco Gregório (BRA) | B | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| — |  Jang Yeon-hak (KOR) | A | — | — | — | ||||||
| Snatch | 187 kg | Lesman Paredes (COL) | WR |
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