Weightlifting at the 2016 Olympic Games

How close each class finished and how often the lifters made their attempts.

Attempts made

60%

876 good lifts from the 1,467 attempts taken. For comparison, lifters at senior World Championships and Olympic Games since 1998 make 57%.

Lifters without a total

35 of 255

32 with no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk and 3 with a good lift in each but no total in the published results.

Winning margin in each class

The winner's total minus the runner-up's. The closest finals: Men's 69 kg, Men's 85 kg and Women's +75 kg each came down to 1 kg between gold and silver. The widest: Men's +105 kg by 22 kg. A short bar is a close final; a long one, a class the winner had to themselves.

Each class lists the place, the total and all six attempts. A struck-through weight is a missed attempt and a dash an attempt not taken. A dash in the place column means no total was recorded, most often after three misses in the snatch or in the clean and jerk. Where two lifters tie and the results cannot separate them, both are shown without a place.