| 2024 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 61 kilograms competition at the 2024 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 7 December 2024. [1]
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2024 | 15:00 | Group B |
| 20:00 | Group A |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Pak Myong-jin (PRK) | 132 kg |  Nguyễn Trần Anh Tuấn (VIE) | 131 kg |  Garnik Cholakyan (ARM) | 130 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Pak Myong-jin (PRK) | 173 kg |  Aniq Kasdan (MAS) | 166 kg |  Wei Haixian (CHN) | 160 kg |
| Total | Pak Myong-jin (PRK) | 305 kg | Aniq Kasdan (MAS) | 296 kg | Nguyễn Trần Anh Tuấn (VIE) | 291 kg |
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Li Fabin (CHN) | 146 kg | Phuket, Thailand | 2 April 2024 |
| Clean & Jerk |  Hampton Morris (USA) | 176 kg | Phuket, Thailand | 2 April 2024 | |
| Total | Li Fabin (CHN) | 318 kg | Pattaya, Thailand | 19 September 2019 |
| Rank | Athlete | Group | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | ||||
 | Pak Myong-jin (PRK) | A | 129 | 132 | | 165 | 169 | 173 | | 305 | |
 | Aniq Kasdan (MAS) | A | 125 | 130 | 4 | 166 | | 296 | |||
 | Nguyễn Trần Anh Tuấn (VIE) | A | 129 | 131 | | 156 | 160 | 4 | 291 | ||
| 4 | Wei Haixian (CHN) | A | 128 | 5 | 160 | | 288 | ||||
| 5 |  Kao Chan-hung (TPE) | A | 122 | 125 | 9 | 151 | 156 | 158 | 5 | 283 | |
| 6 |  Goderdzi Berdelidze (GEO) | A | 125 | 8 | 145 | 152 | 157 | 6 | 282 | ||
| 7 | Garnik Cholakyan (ARM) | B | 120 | 125 | 130 | | 150 | 7 | 280 | ||
| 8 |  Hashem Al-Khadrawi (KSA) | B | 111 | 115 | 118 | 11 | 138 | 142 | 144 | 8 | 262 |
| 9 |  Pavlo Zalipskyi (UKR) | B | 120 | 10 | 138 | 141 | 9 | 261 | |||
| 10 |  Deniz Danev (BUL) | B | 100 | 105 | 13 | 130 | 135 | 140 | 10 | 245 | |
| 11 |  Mohammad bin Haji Abu Bakar (BRU) | B | 98 | 101 | 104 | 14 | 128 | 12 | 232 | ||
| 12 |  Ricardo Mendonça (POR) | B | 95 | 15 | 118 | 13 | 213 | ||||
| 13 |  Fahad Al-Otaibi (KUW) | B | 88 | 16 | 117 | 14 | 205 | ||||
| — |  Ricko Saputra (INA) | A | 127 | 6 | — | — | |||||
| — | Trịnh Văn Vinh (VIE) | A | 123 | 126 | 7 | — | — | ||||
| — |  Arley Calderón (CUB) | A | 116 | 12 | — | — | |||||
| — |  Lee Hye-seong (KOR) | A | — | 140 | — | — | 11 | — | |||
| — |  Lamin Kamara (SLE) | B | Did not start | ||||||||
| — |  Elsayed Aly (EGY) | B | |||||||||
| — |  Morea Baru (PNG) | B | |||||||||
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