The 2005 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria from April 19 to April 24, 2005. It was the 84th edition of the event. There were a total number of 185 athletes competing, from 30 nations.
| - 56 kg |  Sedat Artuç | Erol Bilgin |  Vitali Dzerbianiou | |
| - 62 kg | Sevdalin Minchev | Adrian Jigau | Stefan Georgiev | |
| - 69 kg | Demir Demirev | Ferit Sen | Mehmed Fikretov | |
| - 77 kg | Taner Sağır | Sebastian Dogariu | Ivan Stoitsov | |
| - 85 kg | Ruslan Novikov | Valeriu Calancea |  Arsen Melikyan | |
| - 94 kg | Hakan Yilmaz |  Andrey Skorobogatov |  Kostiantyn Pipiyev | |
| - 105 kg | Vladimir Smorchkov | Bünyamin Sudaş |  Ramūnas Vyšniauskas | |
| + 105 kg | Viktors Ščerbatihs | Evgeny Chigishev | Ashot Danielyan |
| - 48 kg | Svetlana Ulyanova |  Rebecca Sires Rodrigez | Donka Mincheva |
| - 53 kg | Nastassia Novikava | Marioara Munteanu | Nataliya Trotsenko |
| - 58 kg | Marina Shainova |  Aleksandra Klejnowska | Marieta Gotfryd |
| - 63 kg | Svetlana Shimkova | Dominika Misterska | Gergana Kirilova |
| - 69 kg | Zarema Kasayeva | Olga Kiseleva | Nataliya Davydova |
| - 75 kg | Svetlana Podobedova | Valentina Popova | Rumyana Petkova |
| + 75 kg | Viktoriya Shaimardanova| Yuliya Dovhal| Yordanka Apostolova|}References
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