Weightlifting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Weightlifting at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Parque Polideportivo Roca
Dates	7–13 October
No. of events	12 (6 boys, 6 girls)
Competitors	102 from 63 nations
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Weightlifting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 7 to 13 October. The events took place at Parque Polideportivo Roca in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 4 competitors, 2 per each gender. As hosts, Argentina was guaranteed two quotas, 1 athlete per gender and a further 10 boys and 10 girls was to be decided by the Tripartite Commission. However only 9 girls were selected. The remaining 88 places shall be decided by team classification results from qualification events, namely the 2017 World Youth Championships and five continental qualification tournaments. ^[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2003. Furthermore, NOCs will only be allowed to enter a single athlete in an event and the chosen athlete must have participated in either the 2017 World Youth Championships or a continental championship in 2017 or 2018. ^[1]

Boys

Event	Location	Date	Quotas	Qualified
Host nation	-	-	1	Argentina
2017 World Youth Championships [2]	Bangkok	3–10 April 2017	2	China [a]   Kazakhstan [a]   Iran   Turkey [a]   Russia [a]   Thailand
			1	United States*   Uzbekistan   Azerbaijan [a]   Ukraine [a]   Indonesia   Bulgaria   Colombia   Chinese Taipei   Armenia [a]   Venezuela   Italy
2018 African Youth Championships [3]	Sharm El Sheikh	23–30 March 2018	1	Egypt   Algeria   Libya   South Africa
2018 Asian Youth Championships [4]	Urgench	20–30 April 2018	1	Turkmenistan   India   Saudi Arabia   Kyrgyzstan
2018 Pan American Youth Championships [5]	Palmira	3–10 June 2018	1	Mexico   Ecuador   Peru   Puerto Rico
2018 Oceania Youth Championships [6]	Mont Dore	22–30 June 2018	1	Australia   Nauru   New Zealand   Kiribati
2018 European Youth Championships [7]	Lignano Sabbiadoro	22–29 July 2018	1	Georgia   Romania   Czech Republic   Poland
Tripartite Invitation [8]	-	-	1	Cameroon   Equatorial Guinea   Kiribati   Kosovo   Marshall Islands   Nepal   Pakistan   Saudi Arabia   Turkmenistan   Uganda
Reallocation			1	Albania   Chile   Hungary   Greece   Lithuania   Madagascar   Mauritius   Netherlands   Panama   Slovakia   Spain   United Arab Emirates   Vietnam
Total			49

Girls

Event	Location	Date	Quotas	Qualified
Host nation	-	-	1	Argentina
2017 World Youth Championships [9]	Bangkok	3–10 April 2017	2	China [a]   Kazakhstan [a]   Uzbekistan   Romania   Colombia   Turkey [a]   Thailand
			1	Mexico   United States   Ukraine [a]   Venezuela   Russia [a]   North Korea   Vietnam   Ecuador   Indonesia   Italy
2018 African Youth Championships [10]	Sharm El Sheikh	23–30 March 2018	1	Egypt   Algeria   Tunisia   Ghana
2018 Asian Youth Championships [11]	Urgench	20–30 April 2018	1	Japan   Chinese Taipei   India   Mongolia
2018 Pan American Youth Championships [12]	Palmira	3–10 June 2018	1	Peru   Dominican Republic   Guatemala   Puerto Rico
2018 Oceania Youth Championships [13]	Mont Dore	22–30 June 2018	1	Nauru   Australia   New Zealand   Samoa
2018 European Youth Championships [14]	Lignano Sabbiadoro	22–29 July 2018	1	Bulgaria   Poland   Spain   Hungary
Tripartite Invitation [8]	-	-	1	Bahrain   Fiji   Madagascar   Malta   Mauritius   Nauru   Nicaragua   Samoa   Solomon Islands
Reallocation			1	Armenia   Azerbaijan   Chile   Croatia   Great Britain   Greece   Latvia   Nigeria   Turkmenistan   United Arab Emirates
Total			53

^a Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine handed one-year ban from IWF for doping violations. ^[15] Afterwards IWF lifted doping suspensions against Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. ^[16]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey	2	1	1	4
2	Uzbekistan	1	2	0	3
3	Vietnam	1	1	0	2
4	Mexico	1	0	1	2
	Romania	1	0	1	2
6	Armenia	1	0	0	1
	India	1	0	0	1
	Iran	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Tunisia	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
12	Colombia	0	2	1	3
13	Thailand	0	2	0	2
14	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
	Egypt	0	1	1	2
16	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	Georgia	0	1	0	1
18	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		12	12	12	36

Boy's events

Boys' 56 kg podium

Boys' 62 kg podium

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Ngô Sơn Đỉnh   Vietnam	Natthawat Chomchuen   Thailand	František Polák   Czech Republic
62 kg details	Jeremy Lalrinnunga   India	Caner Toptaş   Turkey	Estiven Villar   Colombia
69 kg details	Muhammed Furkan Özbek   Turkey	Archil Malakmadze   Georgia	Mauricio Canul   Mexico
77 kg details	Karen Margaryan   Armenia	Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov   Uzbekistan	Abdalla Galal Mohamed Mostafa   Egypt
85 kg details	Cristiano Ficco   Italy	Tarmenkhan Babayev   Azerbaijan	Ali Yousef Al-Othman   Saudi Arabia
+85 kg details	Alireza Yousefi   Iran	Hristo Hristov   Bulgaria	Enzo Kuworge   Netherlands

Girl's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
44 kg details	Katherin Echandia   Venezuela	Nguyễn Thị Thu Trang   Vietnam	Nida Karasakal   Turkey
48 kg details	Yesica Hernández   Mexico	Yineth Santoya   Colombia	Mihaela Cambei   Romania
53 kg details	Sabina Baltag   Romania	Kely Junkar   Colombia	Nur Vinatasari   Indonesia
58 kg details	Ghofrane Belkhir   Tunisia	Neama Said Fahmi Said   Egypt	Peyton Brown   United States
63 kg details	Kumushkhon Fayzullaeva   Uzbekistan	Thipwara Chontavin   Thailand	Galya Shatova   Bulgaria
+63 kg details [a]	Dilara Narin   Turkey	Dolera Davronova   Uzbekistan	Kanah Andrews-Nahu   New Zealand

Notes

• ^{Girls' +63 kg} Supatchanin Khamhaeng of Thailand originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified in 2019 after testing positive for a banned substance. ^[17]

• 
  44 kg victory ceremony
• 
  48 kg victory ceremony
• 
  53 kg victory ceremony
• 
  63 kg victory ceremony

References

1. "Qualification System: Weightlifting" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation . 13 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
2. "Boys Team Classification from World Youth Championships" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation . 29 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
3. "Boys Team YOG Classification from African Youth Championships" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation . 29 March 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
4. "Boys Team YOG Classification from Asian Youth Championships" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation . 9 April 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
5. "2018 Pan-American Youth Championships Men" (PDF). IWF . 9 June 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
6. "2018 Oceanian Youth Championships Men" (PDF). IWF . 30 June 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
7. "2018 European Youth Championships Men" (PDF). IWF . 29 July 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
8. "Universality Places Selected (Weightlifting)" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation . 13 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
9. "Girls Team Classification from World Youth Championships" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation . 10 April 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
10. "Girls Team YOG Classification from African Youth Championships" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation . 29 March 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
11. "Girls Team YOG Classification from Asian Youth Championships" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation . 30 April 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
12. "2018 Pan-American Youth Championships Women" (PDF). IWF . 9 June 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
13. "2018 Oceanian Youth Championships Women" (PDF). IWF . 30 June 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
14. "2018 European Youth Championships Women" (PDF). IWF . 29 July 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
15. "IWF Executive Board upholds decision related to Member Federations which have produced three or more retesting cases". IWF. 30 September 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
16. "Independent Monitoring Group Notes Significant Anti-Doping Progress Among Suspended IWF Member Federations". IWF. 12 June 2018. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
17. "Exclusive: Thai weightlifter loses Youth Olympics gold medal for doping". inside the games. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.

External links

• Official Results Book – Weightlifting