Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's +102 kg

The Men's +102 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place on 10 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.

Men's +102 kg at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Paris Expo Porte de Versailles
Date	10 August 2024
Competitors	12 from 12 nations
Winning total	470 kg
Medalists
Lasha Talakhadze  Georgia Varazdat Lalayan  Armenia Gor Minasyan  Bahrain

Background

The medallists of the 2020 Olympics - Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze, Iran's Ali Davoudi and Syria's Man Asaad - returns to the Olympics after 3 years, joined by the rest from the previous games - New Zealand's David Liti and Algeria's Walid Bidani. Estonia's Mart Seim and Bahrain's Gor Minasyan returns after 2016, having missed out the Tokyo Olympics, while Egypt's Abdelrahman El-Sayed, aged 35, makes first appearance after 16 years since Beijing 2008, which would be his last Olympics alongside with Czech's Kamil Kučera, 39, before their respective retirements.

In this event, most lifters failed on the third attempt of snatch, with only Davoudi, Liti, Iraq's Ali Rubaiawi (who later broke the junior world record), and Japan's Eishiro Murakami passed the third attempt. In clean and jerk, the same scenario also appeared, with El-Sayed became the sole lifter to pass the third attempt of the section. Bidani withdraws from the event in response to his failed first attempt of snatch while Kučera and Talakhadze not to take part on the third attempt in clean and jerk. Kučera opens his shoelaces on the second attempt of clean and jerk as a ceremony of his retirement and withdraws from the third attempt while Talakhadze skips the third attempt of the same section after confirming his victory following Davoudi's failed third attempt in which Lalayan and Minasyan wins silver and bronze medals, taking over from him and Asaad.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World Record	Snatch	Lasha Talakhadze (GEO)	225 kg	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	17 December 2021
	Clean & Jerk	Lasha Talakhadze (GEO)	267 kg	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	17 December 2021
	Total	Lasha Talakhadze (GEO)	492 kg	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	17 December 2021
Olympic Record	Snatch	Lasha Talakhadze (GEO)	223 kg	Tokyo, Japan	4 August 2021
	Clean & Jerk	Lasha Talakhadze (GEO)	265 kg	Tokyo, Japan	4 August 2021
	Total	Lasha Talakhadze (GEO)	488 kg	Tokyo, Japan	4 August 2021

The following records were established during the competition:

Category	Athlete	New record	Type
Snatch	Ali Rubaiawi (IRQ)	200 kg	JWR
Total	Ali Rubaiawi (IRQ)	437 kg	JWR

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
			1	2	3	Result	1	2	3	Result
	Lasha Talakhadze	Georgia	210	215	220	215	247	255	—	255	470
	Varazdat Lalayan	Armenia	210	215	218	215	247	252	256	252	467
	Gor Minasyan	Bahrain	210	216	220	216	245	255	255	245	461
4	Ali Davoudi	Iran	200	201	205	205	242	257	257	242	447
5	Man Asaad	Syria	191	197	201	197	235	241	253	241	438
6	Ali Rubaiawi	Iraq	195	195	200	200 JWR	230	237	247	237	437 JWR
7	Abdelrahman El-Sayed	Egypt	178	183	190	183	225	233	233	233	416
8	David Liti	New Zealand	178	182	184	184	224	231	235	231	415
9	Mart Seim	Estonia	175	180	183	180	220	237	237	220	400
10	Eishiro Murakami	Japan	170	180	180	180	200	220	230	220	400
11	Kamil Kučera	Czech Republic	100	110	—	110	120	140	—	140	250
—	Walid Bidani	Algeria	190	190	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF