2023 World Weightlifting Championships

The 2023 World Weightlifting Championships was a weightlifting competition held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 4 to 17 September 2023.

The event served as a mandatory event to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. The competition was previously expected to be held using two platforms instead of one.

Medal table
Ranking by Big (Total result) medals

Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)

Participating nations
A total of 719 competitors from 117 nations participated.


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 * 🇺🇸 (20)
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 * IWF Refugee Team (6)
 * 🇾🇪 (2)

North Korea entered a team in July 2023, but was disqualified due to not allowing independent anti-doping testers into the country.