The Men's 61 kg weightlifting competitions at the

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took place on 25 July at the

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Li Fabin Li Fabin (Chinese: 李发彬; born 15 January 1993) is a Chinese weightlifter, World Champion, and three time Asian Champion competing in the 56 kg division until 2018 and 61 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Fede ...

Eko Yuli Irawan Eko Yuli Irawan (born 24 July 1989) is an Indonesian weightlifter, Olympian, and World Champion competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 61 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categ ...

and

Igor Son Igor Sergeyevich Son (born 16 November 1998) is a Kazakhstani weightlifter. In 2017, he competed in the men's 56 kg event at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. In 2018, he won the silver medal in the men's 6 ...

win the event, brings

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to catch gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. Dominican Luis García,

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Simon Brandhuber, Papua New Guinean

Morea Baru Morea Baru (born April 15 1990) is a Papua New Guinean Olympic weightlifter. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He finished in 6th place. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Men's −61 kg. Career He competed at the 2016 Oceania ...

, Malagasy Eric Andriantsitohaina, and

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Marcos Rojas earning their spots in total lifting.

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