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Host City: Sydney, Australia
Venue(s): Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, New South Wales
Date Started: September 17, 2000
Date Finished: September 17, 2000
Format: Total of best lifts in snatch and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight.
| Gold: | Nikolay Peshalov |
| Silver: | Leonidas Sabanis |
| Bronze: | Gennady Oleshchuk |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | K | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikolay Peshalov | 30 | Croatia | CRO | Gold | 325.0 | OR |
| 2 | Leonidas Sabanis | 28 | Greece | GRE | Silver | 317.5 | |
| 3 | Gennady Oleshchuk | 24 | Belarus | BLR | Bronze | 317.5 | |
| 4 | Le Maosheng | 22 | China | CHN | 315.0 | ||
| 5 | Sayed Mahdi Panzvan | 19 | Iran | IRI | 302.5 | ||
| 6 | Hiroshi Ikehata | 30 | Japan | JPN | 300.0 | ||
| 7 | Vladimir Popov | 23 | Moldova | MDA | 295.0 | ||
| 8 | Elxan Süleymanov | 26 | Azerbaijan | AZE | 292.5 | ||
| 9 | Yuri Sarkisyan | 39 | Australia | AUS | 290.0 | ||
| 10 | Zoltán Farkas | 25 | Hungary | HUN | 287.5 | ||
| 11 | Marcus Stephen | 30 | Nauru | NRU | 285.0 | ||
| 12 | Samson N'Dicka-Matam | 24 | France | FRA | 285.0 | ||
| 13 | Dmitry Lomakin | 24 | Kazakhstan | KAZ | 282.5 | ||
| 14 | Kim Yeong-Tae | 25 | South Korea | KOR | 275.0 | ||
| 15 | Sunday Mathias | 19 | Nigeria | NGR | 265.0 | ||
| AC | Sevdalin Minchev | 26 | Bulgaria | BUL | [317.5] | DQ | |
| AC | Im Yong-Su | 20 | North Korea | PRK | DNF | ||
| AC | Ümürbek Bazarbaýew | 18 | Turkmenistan | TKM | DNF | ||
| AC | Aleksey Bortkov | 24 | Russia | RUS | DNF | ||
| AC | Chom Singnoi | 21 | Thailand | THA | DNF | ||
| AC | Naim Süleymanoğlu | 33 | Turkey | TUR | DNF |