Austria has received an unused quota place from IWF to send a male weightlifter to the Olympics, signifying the nation's return to the sport for the first time since 2004. Sargis Martirosjan, who has previously competed in the 2014 and 2015 World Weightlifting Championships as well as the 2015 and 2016 European Weightlifting Championships was chosen to participate. He successfully cleared his first snatch of , but then scratched his next two attempts of , ending him in a tie for tenth. In the clean and jerk section, he cleared all of his attempts, starting with , moving on to , and ending on , placing him in eleventh position for the round. His total score of 389 kilograms put him to eleventh overall.