2021 World Weightlifting Championships
	Men	Women
	55 kg	45 kg
	61 kg	49 kg
	67 kg	55 kg
	73 kg	59 kg
	81 kg	64 kg
	89 kg	71 kg
	96 kg	76 kg
	102 kg	81 kg
	109 kg	87 kg
	+109 kg	+87 kg

The men's 96 kilograms competition at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 13 and 14 December 2021.^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Snatch	Lesman Paredes (COL)	187 kg	Boady Santavy (CAN)	178 kg	Keydomar Vallenilla (VEN)	177 kg
Clean & Jerk	Fares El-Bakh (QAT)	222 kg	Artyom Antropov (KAZ)	221 kg	Keydomar Vallenilla (VEN)	214 kg
Total	Lesman Paredes (COL)	400 kg	Fares El-Bakh (QAT)	394 kg	Keydomar Vallenilla (VEN)	391 kg

Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.

World Record	Snatch	Sohrab Moradi (IRI)	186 kg	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	7 November 2018
	Clean & Jerk	Tian Tao (CHN)	231 kg	Tokyo, Japan	7 July 2019
	Total	Sohrab Moradi (IRI)	416 kg	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	7 November 2018

Rank	Athlete	Group	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
	Lesman Paredes (COL)	A	180	187	190		208	208	213	4	400
	Fares El-Bakh (QAT)	A	172	175	175	6	217	222	229		394
	Keydomar Vallenilla (VEN)	A	172	175	177		210	214	214		391
4	Artyom Antropov (KAZ)	A	160	164	167	13	216	221	224		385
5	Boady Santavy (CAN)	A	172	176	178		201	206	207	13	379
6	Reza Dehdar (IRI)	A	168	168	172	7	207	216	217	9	379
7	Georgi Kuptsov (RWF)	A	164	169	174	4	204	209	210	11	378
8	Ahmed Sayed Ali (EGY)	B	165	165	171	11	207	212	217	5	377
9	Romain Imadouchène (FRA)	B	155	160	163	17	205	210	212	6	372
10	Andrés Serna (COL)	B	153	158	163	15	198	203	208	7	371
11	Davit Hovhannisyan (ARM)	B	165	170	170	9	200	205	210	10	370
12	Hakob Mkrtchyan (ARM)	A	163	167	167	16	207	212	212	8	370
13	Petr Asayonak (BLR)	B	165	170	170	10	196	202	206	12	367
14	Artur Babayan (RWF)	A	165	170	173	12	200	205	207	14	365
15	Anton Pliesnoi (GEO)	B	170	170	177	8	190	—	—	19	360
16	Ali Al-Khazal (KSA)	C	154	159	163	14	194	202	202	16	357
17	Irakli Gobejishvili (GEO)	C	154	154	158	18	183	188	188	22	346
18	Antonis Martasidis (CYP)	C	145	152	153	21	185	190	195	18	343
19	Khojiakbar Olimov (UZB)	C	148	152	152	23	180	186	191	17	343
20	Saddam Messaoui (ALG)	C	155	155	160	19	185	185	185	24	340
21	Vikas Thakur (IND)	C	150	150	154	24	183	189	194	21	339
22	Wilmer Contreras (ECU)	C	147	150	152	22	183	183	183	25	335
23	Jagdish Vishwakarma (IND)	D	137	142	145	26	180	186	191	23	328
24	Weeraphat Boonlang (THA)	D	140	140	146	25	160	173	181	26	327
25	Yannick Tschan (SUI)	D	138	142	145	27	175	179	184	28	321
26	Joël Essama (CMR)	D	130	138	145	28	170	170	175	29	313
27	John Tabique (PHI)	D	130	137	140	29	167	172	172	30	304
28	Cédric Coret (MRI)	D	130	130	137	32	166	166	171	31	296
29	Shanaka Peters (SRI)	D	125	130	133	31	165	170	170	32	295
30	Jiarul Islam (BAN)	D	117	123	129	33	143	153	160	33	276
—	Chen Po-jen (TPE)	A	170	173	177	5	195	195	195	—	—
—	Leho Pent (EST)	C	153	157	158	20	187	187	190	—	—
—	John Cheah (SGP)	D	132	134	137	30	165	166	166	—	—
—	Abdalla Galal Mostafa (EGY)	B	155	155	155	—	195	200	200	15	—
—	Gerasimos Galiatsatos (GRE)	B	176	176	177	—	190	190	190	20	—
—	Forrester Osei (GHA)	C	150	150	150	—	175	181	186	27	—
—	Marco Gregório (BRA)	B	166	166	166	—	—	—	—	—	—
—	Jang Yeon-hak (KOR)	A	171	176	176	—	201	201	201	—	—

Snatch

187 kg

Lesman Paredes (COL)

WR

• Results