Weightlifting at the 2006 Asian Games

Weightlifting was contested by both men and women at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 2 to December 6, 2006. There are seven weight categories for the women and eight for the men. All competition took place at the Banquet Hall, Al-Dana Club.

Weightlifting at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Al-Dana Banquet Hall
Dates	2–6 December
Competitors	173 from 34 nations
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India did not take part in this weightlifting events after the government failed to pay a USD$50,000 fine to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) to lift their suspension. The IWF suspended India's weightlifting team from any sports events after they failed doping tests during the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.^[1]

Iran also had same sanctions after 9 weightlifters failed doping test before the World Championships in Dominican Republic, but after Iran Weightlifting Federation agreed to pay US$400,000, Iran clear to compete.^[2]

Schedule

B

Group B

A

Group A

Event↓/Date →	2nd Sat		3rd Sun		4th Mon		5th Tue		6th Wed
Men's 56 kg	B	A
Men's 62 kg			B	A
Men's 69 kg			B	A
Men's 77 kg					B	A
Men's 85 kg							B	A
Men's 94 kg							A
Men's 105 kg									B	A
Men's +105 kg									A
Women's 48 kg	A
Women's 53 kg	A
Women's 58 kg			A
Women's 63 kg					A
Women's 69 kg					A
Women's 75 kg							A
Women's +75 kg									A

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Li Zheng   China	Hoàng Anh Tuấn   Vietnam	Lee Jong-hoon   South Korea
62 kg details	Qiu Le   China	Mao Jiao   China	Im Yong-su   North Korea
69 kg details	Zhang Guozheng   China	Shi Zhiyong   China	Kim Sun-bae   South Korea
77 kg details	Li Hongli   China	Lee Jeong-jae   South Korea	Harem Taha   Iraq
85 kg details	Vyacheslav Yershov   Kazakhstan	Lu Yong   China	Kim Seon-jong   South Korea
94 kg details	Ilya Ilyin   Kazakhstan	Lee Ung-jo   South Korea	Hsieh Wei-chun   Chinese Taipei
105 kg details	Ahed Joughili   Syria	Mohammed Jassim   Iraq	Bakhyt Akhmetov   Kazakhstan
+105 kg details	Hossein Rezazadeh   Iran	Jaber Saeed Salem   Qatar	Andrey Martemyanov   Uzbekistan

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Wang Mingjuan   China	Pensiri Laosirikul   Thailand	Thongyim Bunphithak   Thailand
53 kg details	Li Ping   China	Junpim Kuntatean   Thailand	Yu Weili   Hong Kong
58 kg details	Chen Yanqing   China	Wandee Kameaim   Thailand	Pak Hyon-suk   North Korea
63 kg details	Pawina Thongsuk   Thailand	Ouyang Xiaofang   China	Thaw Yae Faw   Myanmar
69 kg details	Liu Haixia   China	Yar Thet Pan   Myanmar	Kim Mi-kyung   South Korea
75 kg details	Cao Lei   China	Kim Soon-hee   South Korea	Sinta Darmariani   Indonesia
+75 kg details	Mu Shuangshuang   China	Jang Mi-ran   South Korea	Annipa Moontar   Thailand

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	10	4	0	14
2	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	0	1	3
3	Thailand (THA)	1	3	2	6
4	Iran (IRI)	1	0	0	1
	Syria (SYR)	1	0	0	1
6	South Korea (KOR)	0	4	4	8
7	Iraq (IRQ)	0	1	1	2
	Myanmar (MYA)	0	1	1	2
9	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	0	1
	Vietnam (VIE)	0	1	0	1
11	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	2	2
12	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		15	15	15	45

Participating nations

A total of 173 athletes from 34 nations competed in weightlifting at the 2006 Asian Games:

•   Bahrain (4)
•   Bangladesh (1)
•   China (14)
•   Chinese Taipei (6)
•   East Timor (2)
•   Hong Kong (1)
•   Indonesia (5)
•   Iran (1)
•   Iraq (4)
•   Japan (6)
•   Jordan (2)
•   Kazakhstan (15)
•   Kuwait (1)
•   Kyrgyzstan (6)
•   Lebanon (5)
•   Macau (2)
•   Malaysia (3)
•   Mongolia (3)
•   Myanmar (5)
•   Nepal (1)
•   North Korea (7)
•   Oman (3)
•   Pakistan (5)
•   Palestine (2)
•   Philippines (2)
•   Qatar (7)
•   Saudi Arabia (6)
•   South Korea (12)
•   Sri Lanka (2)
•   Syria (6)
•   Thailand (11)
•   Turkmenistan (8)
•   Uzbekistan (8)
•   Vietnam (7)

References

1. India's weightlifters can't pay, won't play at Asiad
2. Iran's 'Hercules' cleared to compete in Doha

External links

• "Weightlifting Competition Schedule".
• Results^{[permanent dead link]}