Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 70 kg

These are the results of the men's 70 kg competition in weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. A total of 28 men entered this event, limited to weightlifters whose body weight was less than 70 kilograms.

Medalists

Gold	Zhan Xugang China
Silver	Kim Myong-Nam North Korea
Bronze	Attila Feri Hungary

Results

Each weightlifter had three attempts for both the snatch and clean and jerk lifting methods. The total of the best successful lift of each method was used to determine the final rankings and medal winners.

Rank	Name	Body Weight (kg)	Snatch (kg)	Clean & Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
1	Zhan Xugang (CHN)	69.98	162.5 (WR)	195.0 (WR)	357.5 (WR)
2	Kim Myong-Nam (PRK)	69.79	160.0	185.0	345.0
3	Attila Feri (HUN)	69.20	152.5	187.5	340.0
4	Plamen Zhelyazkov (BUL)	69.61	155.0	180.0	335.0
5	Abdel Manaane Yahiaoui (ALG)	69.62	150.0	185.0	335.0
6	Israel Militosyan (ARM)	69.88	152.5	182.5	335.0
7	Wan Jianhui (CHN)	69.50	152.5	180.0	332.5
8	Idalberto Aranda (CUB)	69.84	145.0	187.5	332.5
9	Zlatan Vasilev (BUL)	69.31	150.0	180.0	330.0
10	Andreas Behm (GER)	69.39	147.5	180.0	327.5
11	Ergun Batmaz (TUR)	69.55	150.0	175.0	325.0
12	Hayk Yeghiazaryan (ARM)	69.86	145.0	180.0	325.0
13	Khristos Spyrou (GRE)	69.51	145.0	177.5	322.5
14	Tim McRae (USA)	69.86	145.0	177.5	322.5
15	Oleksiy Khizhniak (UKR)	69.94	142.5	177.5	320.0
16	Serghei Cretu (MDA)	69.68	142.5	172.5	315.0
17	Jouni Grönman (FIN)	69.56	142.5	170.0	312.5
18	Mojisola Oluwa (NGR)	69.84	140.0	170.0	310.0
19	Noriaki Horikoshi (JPN)	69.22	137.5	170.0	307.5
20	Rudolf Lukáč (SVK)	69.38	135.0	167.5	302.5
21	André Aldenhov (SWE)	69.83	135.0	165.0	300.0
22	Abdalla Al-Sebaei (SYR)	69.89	130.0	160.0	290.0
23	Samsudeen Kabeer (IND)	69.75	125.0	150.0	275.0
24	Marcelo Gandolfo (ARG)	69.05	120.0	140.0	260.0
-	Fedail Guler (TUR)	69.96	DNS	DNS	-
-	Peter Kilapa (PNG)	69.22	120.0	-	-
-	Gabriel Lemme (ARG)	69.39	-	-	-
-	Gábor Molnár (HUN)	69.44	-	-	-