# 2018 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 96 kg

The men's 96 kilograms competition at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 7 November 2018.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Event |
| 7 November 2018 | 10:00 | Group C |
| 7 November 2018 | 12:00 | Group B |
| 7 November 2018 | 17:25 | Group A |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Snatch | Sohrab Moradi (IRI) | 186 kg | Tian Tao (CHN) | 181 kg | Yauheni Tsikhantsou (BLR) | 180 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Sohrab Moradi (IRI) | 230 kg | Tian Tao (CHN) | 226 kg | Fares El-Bakh (QAT) | 217 kg |
| Total | Sohrab Moradi (IRI) | 416 kg | Tian Tao (CHN) | 407 kg | Nicolae Onică (ROU) | 391 kg |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | World Standard | 185 kg | — | 1 November 2018 |
| World Record | Clean & Jerk | World Standard | 225 kg | — | 1 November 2018 |
| World Record | Total | World Standard | 401 kg | — | 1 November 2018 |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Group | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total |
| Rank | Athlete | Group | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | Total |
| | Sohrab Moradi (IRI) | A | 181 | 186 | 186 | | 223 | 230 | 237 | | 416 |
| | Tian Tao (CHN) | A | 175 | 181 | 181 | | 215 | 226 | 236 | | 407 |
| | Nicolae Onică (ROU) | A | 170 | 175 | 182 | 5 | 216 | 222 | 227 | 4 | 391 |
| 4 | Yauheni Tsikhantsou (BLR) | A | 173 | 180 | 184 | | 210 | 217 | 217 | 7 | 390 |
| 5 | Fares El-Bakh (QAT) | A | 171 | 174 | 174 | 9 | 217 | 217 | 222 | | 388 |
| 6 | Sarat Sumpradit (THA) | A | 165 | 170 | 173 | 8 | 200 | 206 | 211 | 5 | 384 |
| 7 | Boady Santavy (CAN) | A | 171 | 175 | 178 | 6 | 203 | 208 | 212 | 9 | 383 |
| 8 | Anton Pliesnoi (GEO) | A | 167 | 173 | 177 | 7 | 198 | 206 | 211 | 11 | 379 |
| 9 | Egor Klimonov (RUS) | A | 162 | 167 | 168 | 13 | 205 | 210 | 214 | 8 | 378 |
| 10 | Jhonatan Rivas (COL) | A | 171 | 176 | 180 | 4 | 201 | 201 | 201 | 14 | 377 |
| 11 | Rustem Sybay (KAZ) | A | 165 | 165 | 170 | 15 | 205 | 206 | 211 | 6 | 376 |
| 12 | Amir Hoghoughi (IRI) | A | 161 | 167 | 171 | 14 | 201 | 207 | 213 | 10 | 374 |
| 13 | Serafim Veli (BRA) | B | 160 | 166 | 170 | 10 | 194 | 200 | 202 | 16 | 370 |
| 14 | Volodymyr Hoza (UKR) | B | 163 | 167 | 170 | 11 | 193 | 198 | 201 | 22 | 363 |
| 15 | Chen Po-jen (TPE) | B | 160 | 165 | 168 | 12 | 190 | 195 | 198 | 20 | 363 |
| 16 | İbrahim Arat (TUR) | B | 155 | 160 | 163 | 16 | 196 | 201 | 201 | 12 | 361 |
| 17 | Jeyson Arias (VEN) | B | 156 | 156 | 156 | 22 | 196 | 201 | 201 | 13 | 357 |
| 18 | Han Jung-hoon (KOR) | B | 156 | 160 | 160 | 21 | 200 | 207 | 207 | 15 | 356 |
| 19 | Paul Ferrín (ECU) | B | 155 | 160 | 162 | 17 | 195 | 201 | 201 | 19 | 355 |
| 20 | Jason Bonnick (USA) | B | 152 | 157 | 161 | 19 | 185 | 191 | 196 | 18 | 353 |
| 21 | Vadims Koževņikovs (LAT) | B | 149 | 153 | 153 | 28 | 195 | 199 | 202 | 17 | 352 |
| 22 | Jürgen Spieß (GER) | C | 155 | 160 | 163 | 23 | 187 | 194 | 200 | 21 | 349 |
| 23 | Illia Kulikov (UKR) | C | 152 | 156 | 156 | 20 | 185 | 192 | 197 | 23 | 348 |
| 24 | Nathan Damron (USA) | B | 155 | 160 | 160 | 25 | 187 | 188 | 195 | 26 | 343 |
| 25 | Theodoros Iakovidis (GRE) | C | 153 | 158 | 158 | 27 | 183 | 183 | 188 | 25 | 341 |
| 26 | Tomas Li-čin-chai (LTU) | C | 145 | 151 | 154 | 26 | 175 | 183 | 186 | 29 | 337 |
| 27 | Eero Retulainen (FIN) | C | 148 | 148 | 149 | 31 | 187 | 188 | 193 | 24 | 337 |
| 28 | Christian Amoah (GHA) | C | 145 | 150 | 150 | 30 | 175 | 180 | 185 | 28 | 335 |
| 29 | Edmon Avetisyan (GBR) | C | 138 | 143 | 144 | 33 | 177 | 182 | 187 | 27 | 331 |
| 30 | Pierre-Alexandre Bessette (CAN) | C | 150 | 155 | 159 | 24 | 175 | 181 | 182 | 30 | 330 |
| 31 | Luis Lamenza (PUR) | C | 150 | 150 | 157 | 29 | 175 | 185 | 185 | 31 | 325 |
| 32 | Simon Darville (DEN) | C | 133 | 138 | 144 | 32 | 167 | 175 | 175 | 32 | 319 |
| 33 | Laurynas Antanaitis (LTU) | C | 136 | 136 | 140 | 34 | 162 | 168 | 171 | 33 | 311 |
| 34 | Keven Morales (PUR) | C | 135 | 135 | 135 | 35 | 165 | 170 | 175 | 34 | 305 |
| — | Artur Mugurdumov (ISR) | B | 155 | 159 | 160 | 18 | 195 | 196 | 196 | — | — |

## New records

| Snatch | 186 kg | Sohrab Moradi (IRI) | WR |
| Clean & Jerk | 226 kg | Tian Tao (CHN) | WR |
| Clean & Jerk | 230 kg | Sohrab Moradi (IRI) | WR |
| Total | 407 kg | Sohrab Moradi (IRI) | WR |
| Total | 416 kg | Sohrab Moradi (IRI) | WR |