The weightlifting competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place from 7 to 11 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. Several significant changes were instituted in the weightlifting program for Paris 2024, as the number of categories was trimmed from fourteen in Tokyo to ten. Furthermore, 120 weightlifters, with an equal split between men and women, competed in each of the ten weight classes, a massive drop from the 196 at the previous Games.
Qualification
120 weightlifting quota places, with an equal distribution between men and women, were available for Paris 2024, almost eighty fewer overall than those in Tokyo 2020. Qualified NOCs were permitted to enter a maximum of three weightlifters per gender, with a maximum of one in each bodyweight category.
Over eighty-three percent of the total quota was awarded to the ten highest-ranked weightlifters across ten weight classes through the biennial IWF Olympic Qualification Ranking list (running from 1 August 2022, to 28 April 2024). Five more spots per gender were offered to the highest-ranked weightlifter vying for qualification and outside the top ten based on their continental representation (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, or Oceania) from the list.
Host country France reserved two men's and two women's quota places in weightlifting, while a further three places per gender were entitled to eligible NOCs to have their weightlifters compete in Paris 2024 as granted by the Universality principle.
Competition format On 14 June 2022, the International Weightlifting Federation officially announced the new weight categories for Paris 2024, with the total medal count reducing from fourteen to ten. Among the weightlifting medal events, the 61 and 73 kg categories for men and the 49 and 59 kg for women remain present from Tokyo 2020. The 67 and 96 kg classes for men and 55 and 64 kg classes for women were removed.https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/iwf-confirms-new-categories-los-angeles The following list is the official weight categories for men and women, respectively.
Men's weight classes 61 kg 73 kg 89 kg 102 kg +102 kg
Women's weight classes 49 kg 59 kg 71 kg 81 kg +81 kg
Competition schedule
+Schedule rowspan=2 Thu 8Fri 9 Sat 10 Men's weight categoriesMen's 61 kg F Men's 73 kg F Men's 89 kg F Men's 102 kg F Men's +102 kg F Women's weight categoriesWomen's 49 kg F Women's 59 kg F Women's 71 kg F Women's 81 kg F Women's +81 kg F
Participating nations There were 57 participating nations:
(host)
Medal summary Medal table
Men's events 61 kg310 kg 303 kg 298 kg73 kg354 kg346 kg344 kg89 kg404 kg 390 kg384 kg102 kg406 kg 404 kg402 kg +102 kg470 kg 467 kg461 kg
Women's events 49 kg 206 kg 205 kg 200 kg59 kg 241 kg 236 kg 235 kg71 kg 262 kg 257 kg 256 kg81 kg 275 kg 268 kg 267 kg +81 kg 309 kg 299 kg 288 kg
See also Powerlifting at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
References
External links Results book