The Men's 61 kg weightlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games took place at the National Exhibition Centre on 30 July 2022. The weightlifter from Malaysia won the gold, with a combined lift of 285 kg.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows: When the previous records and weight classes were discarded following readjustment, the IWF defined "world standards" as the minimum lifts needed to qualify as world records (WR), CommonWealth Authority defined "Commonwealth standards" and "Commonwealth games standards" as the minimum lifts needed to qualify as Commonwealth record (CR) and Commonwealth games record (GR) in the new weight classes. Wherever World Standard/Commonwealth Standard/Commonwealth Games Standard appear in the list below, no qualified weightlifter has yet lifted the benchmark weights in a sanctioned competition. World record Snatch 145 kg Pattaya, Thailand 19 September 2019 Clean & Jerk 174 kg Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 3 November 2018 Total 318 kg Pattaya, Thailand 19 September 2019Commonwealth record Snatch 128 kg Tashkent, Uzbekistan 9 February 2020 Clean & Jerk 163 kg Darwin, Australia 27 Apr 2019 Total 287 kg Hanoi, Vietnam 20 May 2022Games record Snatch Commonwealth Games Standard 123 kg Clean & Jerk Commonwealth Games Standard 152 kg Total Commonwealth Games Standard 272 kg

The following records were established during the competition: Snatch127 kgGRClean & Jerk158 kgGRTotal285 kgGR

Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round Saturday 30 July 2022 11:45 Final

Results RankAthleteBodyweight (kg)Snatch (kg)Clean & Jerk (kg)Total123Result123Result 60.93 123 127 130 127 GR 153 158 165 158 GR 285 GR 61.00 114 118 121 121 152 165 165 152 273 60.94 115 118 120 118 144 148 151 151 269 4 61.00 110 115 119 119 140 145 149 149 268 5 60.66 110 115 117 110 135 140 140 135 245 6 60.65 95 100 100 95 123 127 132 132 227 7 59.82 85 90 90 90 110 116 120 116 206 8 59.91 80 87 90 80 106 112 115 106 186 ― 61.00 100 105 ― 100 ― ― ― ―

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