The 2017 World Weightlifting Championships were held in

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from 28 November to 5 December 2017.

Doping bans

Nine countries were banned from competing at the World Championships due to their history of doping at previous

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, under International Weightlifting Federation rules stating that any country that had three positive tests uncovered by the

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during re-testing of stored urine samples for banned substances from the

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Olympics would be banned. The banned countries were:

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Boycott

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boycotted the World Championships due to the crises in relations between the United States and these countries. The World Championships organizing committee had said it did not foresee any visa problems for the North Korean team.

Medal summary

Men

Women

Medal table

Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)

Team ranking

Men

Women

Participating nations

A total of 315 competitors from 63 nations participated. * (5) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (6) * (5) * (4) * (9) * (2) * (11) * (16) * (1) * (1) * (4) * (3) * (1) * (11) * (5) * (2) * (2) * (5) * (7) * (4) * (8) * (3) * (5) * (2) * (4) * (8) * (8) * (1) * (1) * (5) * (8) * (15) * (2) * (1) * (4) * (1) * (1) * (11) * (3) * (2) * (2) * (5) * (2) * (5) * (1) * (6) * (6) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (11) * (10) * (2) * (16) * (1) * (5) * (2) * (16) * (10) * (12)

References

External links

Official websiteResultsResults Book
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