2012 Summer Games: Weightlifting Tickets

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The Weightlifting competition in London will be contested at ExCeL, situated near London City Airport in east London's Royal Victoria Dock.

Format
In men's Olympic weightlifting, athletes in the same bodyweight category are split into groups of 8-12 lifters, with the better lifters in Group A, the others in Group B. The groups compete in reverse order (B then A). Medallists are usually decided from the A group. For women, there is only one group. The order of lifts is snatch, then clean and jerk. The order of competitors is determined by random draw, and remains the same throughout the competition. The order could be an important factor -- if two athletes have lifted the same total weight and have the same body weight, the winner is the one who first achieved the total. At the Olympics, medals are awarded to the top three competitors in each weight class based on the highest combined totals from both lifts -- the snatch and the clean and jerk.