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2018 World Weightlifting Championships
	Men	Women
	55 kg	45 kg
	61 kg	49 kg
	67 kg	55 kg
	73 kg	59 kg
	81 kg	64 kg
	89 kg	71 kg
	96 kg	76 kg
	102 kg	81 kg
	109 kg	87 kg
	+109 kg	+87 kg

The men's 109 kg competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 8–9 November 2018.^[1][2]

The International Weightlifting Federation had reorganized the weight categories and discarded all prior world records; only performances exceeding defined "world standards" were to count as new records.

Schedule

Medalists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Snatch	Yang Zhe (CHN)	196 kg	Simon Martirosyan (ARM)	195 kg	Rodion Bochkov (RUS)	190 kg
Clean & Jerk	Simon Martirosyan (ARM)	240 kg	Arkadiusz Michalski (POL)	228 kg	Ruslan Nurudinov (UZB)	227 kg
Total	Simon Martirosyan (ARM)	435 kg	Yang Zhe (CHN)	419 kg	Arkadiusz Michalski (POL)	403 kg

Records

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

Results

Rank	Athlete	Group	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
	Simon Martirosyan (ARM)	A	190	195	197		230	240	—		435
	Yang Zhe (CHN)	A	186	191	196		215	220	223	4	419
	Arkadiusz Michalski (POL)	A	175	179	179	15	221	228	—		403
4	Salwan Jassim (IRQ)	A	180	180	183	9	222	226	226	6	402
5	Rodion Bochkov (RUS)	A	179	184	190		210	216	218	15	400
6	Mohammad Reza Barari (IRI)	A	175	181	186	6	215	215	226	11	396
7	Seo Hui-yeop (KOR)	B	170	175	180	13	210	220	227	7	395
8	Vasil Gospodinov (BUL)	A	176	182	182	11	217	217	221	9	393
9	Andrei Aramnau (BLR)	A	175	181	182	5	210	215	215	16	392
10	Artūrs Plēsnieks (LAT)	B	169	173	174	16	210	217	222	8	391
11	Jeong Ki-sam (KOR)	B	170	180	180	8	200	210	210	13	390
12	Wes Kitts (USA)	B	168	174	174	18	208	215	222	5	390
13	Sargis Martirosjan (AUT)	A	178	179	179	10	205	205	210	17	389
14	Ibragim Bersanov (KAZ)	B	175	180	185	7	200	205	208	18	388
15	Georgi Shikov (BUL)	A	175	180	180	14	210	219	221	14	385
16	Jorge Arroyo (ECU)	B	178	178	183	4	196	201	203	22	384
17	Marcos Ruiz (ESP)	B	170	175	180	12	195	202	207	19	382
18	Hiroaki Shiraishi (JPN)	B	160	165	165	20	205	205	205	21	370
19	Ryunosuke Mochida (JPN)	B	160	160	165	23	205	210	215	12	370
20	Nenad Kužić (SRB)	C	160	165	170	19	200	210	212	23	365
21	Richmond Osarfo (GHA)	C	155	160	160	22	195	200	205	20	365
22	Josué Medina (MEX)	C	160	160	163	21	191	191	191	25	354
23	Radoslav Tatarčík (SVK)	B	165	169	171	17	180	180	184	30	351
24	Jiří Gasior (CZE)	C	150	154	157	27	190	194	201	24	348
25	Matthäus Hofmann (GER)	C	157	162	162	25	183	188	190	26	347
26	Sergej Lichovoj (LTU)	C	153	158	162	24	184	189	189	28	342
27	Sio Pomelile (TGA)	C	140	145	145	31	180	186	200	27	326
28	Mikkel Andersen (DEN)	C	147	147	151	28	177	177	177	31	324
29	Jackson Roberts-Young (AUS)	C	135	135	138	32	183	184	189	29	322
30	Ondrej Kružel (SVK)	C	145	149	—	29	175	180	180	32	320
31	Jani Heikkinen (FIN)	C	137	141	141	30	172	177	177	33	313
—	Sanele Mao (SAM)	C	150	155	160	26	196	196	196	—	—
—	Ruslan Nurudinov (UZB)	A	187	189	189	—	222	227	238		—
—	Jesús González (VEN)	A	174	175	175	—	212	216	220	10	—

New records

Clean & Jerk	240 kg	Simon Martirosyan (ARM)	WR
Total	425 kg	Simon Martirosyan (ARM)	WR
	435 kg	Simon Martirosyan (ARM)	WR

References

External links

• Results Archived 2018-11-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Results Group A Archived 2018-11-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Results Group B
• Results Group C