# 1999 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 62 kg

The Men's Featherweight Weightlifting Event (– 62 kg) is the second men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limited to competitors with a maximum of 62 kilograms of body mass. The competition at the 1999 World Weightlifting Championships took place in Athens, Greece on November 22, 1999.
Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Snatch | Shi Zhiyong (CHN) | 147.5 kg | Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) | 145.0 kg | Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) | 142.5 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Le Maosheng (CHN) | 180.0 kg | Marcus Stephen (NRU) | 172.5 kg | Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) | 172.5 kg |
| Total | Le Maosheng (CHN) | 320.0 kg | Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) | 315.0 kg | Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) | 315.0 kg |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Shi Zhiyong (CHN) | 150.0 kg | Savannah, United States | 4 July 1999 |
| World Record | Clean & Jerk | World Standard | 180.0 kg | — | 1 January 1998 |
| World Record | Total | World Standard | 325.0 kg | — | 1 January 1998 |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total |
| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | Total |
| | Le Maosheng (CHN) | 61.33 | 135.0 | 140.0 | 145.0 | 4 | 172.5 | 177.5 | 180.5 | | 320.0 |
| | Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) | 61.40 | 145.0 | 145.0 | 150.0 | | 170.0 | 175.0 | 175.0 | 5 | 315.0 |
| | Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) | 61.60 | 135.0 | 140.0 | 142.5 | | 167.5 | 172.5 | 172.5 | | 315.0 |
| 4 | Shi Zhiyong (CHN) | 61.63 | 147.5 | 147.5 | 152.5 | | 167.5 | 172.5 | 172.5 | 7 | 315.0 |
| 5 | Nikolaj Pešalov (CRO) | 61.61 | 140.0 | 145.0 | 145.0 | 6 | 172.5 | 177.5 | 180.0 | 4 | 312.5 |
| 6 | Henadzi Aliashchuk (BLR) | 61.51 | 130.0 | 135.0 | 137.5 | 9 | 167.5 | 172.5 | 172.5 | 6 | 302.5 |
| 7 | Marcus Stephen (NRU) | 61.38 | 122.5 | 127.5 | 127.5 | 15 | 167.5 | 172.5 | 175.0 | | 300.0 |
| 8 | Hiroshi Ikehata (JPN) | 61.77 | 132.5 | 132.5 | 137.5 | 10 | 165.0 | 170.0 | 170.0 | 8 | 297.5 |
| 9 | Hafız Süleymanoğlu (TUR) | 61.40 | 135.0 | 135.0 | 135.0 | 8 | 160.0 | 167.5 | 170.0 | 10 | 295.0 |
| 10 | Vladimir Popov (MDA) | 61.40 | 127.5 | 132.5 | 135.0 | 7 | 155.0 | 155.0 | 160.0 | 11 | 295.0 |
| 11 | Zoltán Farkas (HUN) | 61.93 | 132.5 | 137.5 | 137.5 | 11 | 152.5 | 160.0 | 160.0 | 14 | 292.5 |
| 12 | Yurik Sarkisyan (AUS) | 61.79 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 130.0 | 20 | 160.0 | 165.0 | 165.0 | 9 | 290.0 |
| 13 | Lee Bae-young (KOR) | 61.87 | 130.0 | 135.0 | — | 14 | 160.0 | 160.0 | 172.5 | 13 | 290.0 |
| 14 | Elkhan Suleymanov (AZE) | 61.65 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 130.0 | 12 | 152.5 | 157.5 | 162.5 | 9 | 287.5 |
| 15 | Vasile Costea (ROM) | 61.87 | 127.5 | 132.5 | 132.5 | 16 | 160.0 | 165.0 | 165.0 | 12 | 287.5 |
| 16 | Abdulmohsen Al-Bagir (KSA) | 61.59 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 130.0 | 17 | 150.0 | 155.0 | 160.0 | 17 | 280.0 |
| 17 | Tatsuo Hato (JPN) | 61.60 | 117.5 | 122.5 | 125.0 | 18 | 147.5 | 155.0 | 160.0 | 18 | 280.0 |
| 18 | Dmitriy Lomakin (KAZ) | 61.76 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 135.0 | 13 | 150.0 | 150.0 | 155.0 | 26 | 280.0 |
| 19 | Muneer Abdullatif Ali (QAT) | 61.80 | 117.5 | 122.5 | 125.0 | 21 | 150.0 | 157.5 | 160.0 | 16 | 280.0 |
| 20 | Atef Jarray (TUN) | 61.66 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 132.5 | 19 | 145.0 | 152.5 | 152.5 | 21 | 277.5 |
| 21 | Jorge Guiza (COL) | 61.80 | 115.0 | 117.5 | 117.5 | 26 | 155.0 | 155.0 | 155.0 | 19 | 272.5 |
| 22 | Tom Goegebuer (BEL) | 61.13 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 22 | 145.0 | 150.0 | 150.0 | 22 | 270.0 |
| 23 | Yousef Kordi (IRI) | 61.53 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 23 | 150.0 | 155.0 | 155.0 | 24 | 270.0 |
| 24 | Mohamed Osman (EGY) | 61.62 | 115.0 | 115.0 | 117.5 | 35 | 150.0 | 150.0 | 152.5 | 20 | 267.5 |
| 25 | David Pavliashvili (GEO) | 61.77 | 117.5 | 117.5 | 117.5 | 25 | 142.5 | 150.0 | 152.5 | 27 | 267.5 |
| 26 | Amílcar Pernía (VEN) | 61.46 | 115.0 | 117.5 | 120.0 | 32 | 150.0 | 155.0 | 155.0 | 23 | 265.0 |
| 27 | Luciano Votrea (FRA) | 61.55 | 107.5 | 112.5 | 115.0 | 37 | 150.0 | 155.0 | 155.0 | 25 | 262.5 |
| 28 | LeGrand Sakamaki (USA) | 61.87 | 117.5 | 117.5 | 122.5 | 27 | 145.0 | 150.0 | 152.5 | 29 | 262.5 |
| 29 | Laurent Pedreno (FRA) | 61.81 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 122.5 | 24 | 135.0 | 140.0 | 140.0 | 33 | 260.0 |
| 30 | José Utria (COL) | 61.89 | 112.5 | 117.5 | 122.5 | 28 | 142.5 | 142.5 | 147.5 | 30 | 260.0 |
| 31 | Renato Sulkja (ALB) | 61.99 | 107.5 | 112.5 | 117.5 | 29 | 132.5 | 140.0 | 142.5 | 31 | 260.0 |
| 32 | Marco Piconese (ITA) | 61.62 | 110.5 | 115.0 | 115.0 | 34 | 140.0 | 140.0 | 145.0 | 32 | 255.0 |
| 33 | Ali Hidaiel (IRQ) | 61.62 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 33 | 135.0 | 135.0 | 135.0 | 37 | 250.0 |
| 34 | Wayne Healy (IRL) | 61.66 | 105.0 | 110.0 | 112.5 | 38 | 132.5 | 137.5 | 142.5 | 35 | 250.0 |
| 35 | Marvin Jiménez (GUA) | 61.92 | 110.0 | 115.0 | 115.0 | 39 | 140.0 | 140.0 | 150.0 | 34 | 250.0 |
| 36 | Erikas Maldžius (LTU) | 61.36 | 115.0 | — | — | 31 | 132.5 | 140.0 | 140.0 | 39 | 247.5 |
| 37 | Jorge García (GUA) | 61.31 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 40 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 135.0 | 36 | 235.0 |
| 38 | Oussama Misto (LIB) | 61.63 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 41 | 125.0 | 132.5 | 135.0 | 38 | 235.0 |
| — | Stefan Georgiev (BUL) | 61.51 | 135.0 | 140.0 | 140.0 | 5 | 170.0 | 170.0 | 170.0 | — | — |
| — | Ümürbek Bazarbaýew (TKM) | 61.06 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 30 | 140.0 | 140.0 | 140.0 | — | — |
| — | Vencelas Dabaya (CMR) | 61.77 | 110.0 | 112.5 | 115.0 | 36 | 150.0 | 150.0 | 150.0 | — | — |
| — | Zafar Tagiyev (AZE) | 61.90 | 117.5 | 117.5 | 117.5 | — | 147.5 | 152.5 | 152.5 | 28 | — |
| — | Armando Mece (ALB) | 61.77 | 102.5 | 102.5 | 102.5 | — | 125.0 | 130.0 | 130.0 | 40 | — |
| — | Mihail Şuwaýew (TKM) | 61.20 | 120.0 | 120.0 | — | — | 150.0 | — | — | — | — |

## New records

| Clean & Jerk | 180.5 kg | Le Maosheng (CHN) | WR |