Weightlifting competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were held from 28 July to 7 August in the ExCeL venue. Fifteen gold medals were awarded and 260 athletes took part (156 men and 104 women).^[1]

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Weightlifting at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	ExCeL London
Dates	28 July - 7 August 2012
Competitors	260
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15 sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

The results of the 2012 Olympic weightlifting competition have been significantly revised after doping was uncovered through retests of samples from these Games.

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	2	0	7
2	Iran	3	2	0	5
3	North Korea	3	0	2	5
4	Poland	1	1	1	3
5	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Chinese Taipei	1	0	0	1
	Spain	1	0	0	1
8	Indonesia	0	2	1	3
9	South Korea	0	1	2	3
10	Colombia	0	1	1	2
	Egypt	0	1	1	2
	Thailand	0	1	1	2
13	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
17	Cameroon	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
	Vietnam	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		15	15	15	45

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Men's events

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details [a]	Om Yun-chol  North Korea	Wu Jingbiao  China	Trần Lê Quốc Toàn  Vietnam
62 kg details	Kim Un-guk  North Korea	Óscar Figueroa  Colombia	Eko Yuli Irawan  Indonesia
69 kg details [b]	Lin Qingfeng  China	Triyatno  Indonesia	Kim Myong-hyok  North Korea
77 kg details	Lü Xiaojun  China	Lu Haojie  China	Iván Cambar  Cuba
85 kg details [c]	Adrian Zieliński  Poland	Kianoush Rostami  Iran	Tarek Yehia  Egypt
94 kg details [d]	Saeid Mohammadpour  Iran	Kim Min-jae  South Korea	Tomasz Zieliński  Poland
105 kg details [e]	Navab Nassirshalal  Iran	Bartłomiej Bonk  Poland	Ivan Efremov  Uzbekistan
+105 kg details	Behdad Salimi  Iran	Sajjad Anoushiravani  Iran	Jeon Sang-guen  South Korea

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Women's events

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Wang Mingjuan  China	Hiromi Miyake  Japan	Ryang Chun-hwa  North Korea
53 kg details [f]	Hsu Shu-ching  Chinese Taipei	Citra Febrianti  Indonesia	Iulia Paratova  Ukraine
58 kg details [g]	Li Xueying  China	Pimsiri Sirikaew  Thailand	Rattikan Gulnoi  Thailand
63 kg details [h]	Christine Girard  Canada	Milka Maneva  Bulgaria	Luz Acosta  Mexico
69 kg details [i]	Rim Jong-sim  North Korea	Anna Nurmukhambetova  Kazakhstan	Ubaldina Valoyes  Colombia
75 kg details [j]	Lydia Valentín  Spain	Abeer Abdelrahman  Egypt	Madias Nzesso  Cameroon
+75 kg details [k]	Zhou Lulu  China	Tatiana Kashirina  Russia	Jang Mi-ran  South Korea

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• ^{Men's 56 kg} Valentin Hristov of Azerbaijan originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2019 after testing positive for steroids.^[2][3]
• ^{Men's 69 kg} Răzvan Martin of Romania originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2020 after a retest of his 2012 sample tested positive for steroids.^[4]
• ^{Men's 85 kg} Apti Aukhadov of Russia originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of his 2012 sample tested positive for steroids.^[5]
• ^{Men's 94 kg} Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan, Aleksandr Ivanov of Russia, and Anatolie Cîrîcu of Moldova originally won the gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively, but were all disqualified in 2016 after retests of their 2012 samples were positive for steroids. Fourth-placed Andrey Demanov of Russia, sixth-placed Intigam Zairov of Azerbaijan, and seventh-placed Almas Uteshov of Kazakhstan were also disqualified for the same reason.^[6][7][8]
• ^{Men's 105 kg} Oleksiy Torokhtiy of Ukraine originally won the gold medal, and Ruslan Nurudinov of Uzbekistan originally finished fourth, but were both disqualified as retests of their 2012 samples were positive for performance-enhancing drugs.^[9][10][3]
• ^{Women's 53 kg} Zulfiya Chinshanlo of Kazakhstan and Cristina Iovu of Moldova originally won the gold and bronze medals respectively, but were both disqualified in 2016 after testing positive for steroids.^[7][11]
• ^{Women's 58 kg} Yuliya Kalina of Ukraine originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of her 2012 sample tested positive for steroids.^[12]
• ^{Women's 63 kg} Maiya Maneza of Kazakhstan originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of her 2012 sample tested positive for stanozolol.^[11] Fourth-placed Sibel Şimşek of Turkey was also disqualified for the same reason.^[8] On 5 April 2017, original silver medalist Svetlana Tsarukaeva of Russia was also disqualified for the same reason.^[13]
• ^{Women's 69 kg} Maryna Shkermankova of Belarus originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of her 2012 sample was positive for steroids.^[11] Fourth-placed Dzina Sazanavets of Belarus was also disqualified for the same reason.^[11] Roxana Cocoș of Romania originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2020 after a failed retest of her sample from 2012 tested positive for steroids.^[4][14]
• ^{Women's 75 kg} Svetlana Podobedova of Kazakhstan, Natalya Zabolotnaya of Russia, and Iryna Kulesha of Belarus originally won the gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively, but were all disqualified in 2016 after retests of their 2012 samples were positive for steroids.^[7][11]
• ^{Women's +75 kg} Hripsime Khurshudyan of Armenia originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of her 2012 sample was positive for steroids.^[7]
• ^{Men's +105 kg} Ruslan Albegov of Russia originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2024 after a doping violation. Fourth-place finisher Irakli Turmanidze of Georgia was also disqualified. ^[15]