See main article: Weightlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
| Event: | Weightlifting – Men's 96 kg |
| Games: | 2022 |
| Venue: | National Exhibition Centre |
| Dates: | 2 August 2022 |
| Competitors: | 10 |
| Nations: | 10 |
| Gold: | Don Opeloge |
| Goldcga: | SAM |
| Silver: | Vikas Thakur |
| Silvercga: | IND |
| Bronze: | Taniela Tuisuva Rainibogi |
| Bronzecga: | FIJ |
| Win Value: | 381 GR |
| Win Label: | Winning total weight |
| Prev: | 2018 |
| Next: | 2026 |
The Men's 96 kg weightlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games took place at the National Exhibition Centre on 2 August 2022. The weightlifter from Samoa won the gold, with a combined lift of 381 kg, a Commonwealth Games record.[1]
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:[2]
| World record | Snatch | 187 kg | 14 December 2021 | ||
| Clean & Jerk | 231 kg | 7 July 2019 | |||
| Total | 416 kg | 7 November 2018 | |||
| Commonwealth record | Snatch | 181 kg | 22 April 2021 | ||
| Clean & Jerk | 210 kg | 24 September 2019 | |||
| Total | 389 kg | 22 April 2021 | |||
| Games record | Snatch | Commonwealth Games Standard | 159 kg | ||
| Clean & Jerk | Commonwealth Games Standard | 199 kg | |||
| Total | Commonwealth Games Standard | 351 kg |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Snatch | 171 kg | GR | ||
| Clean & Jerk | 210 kg | GR | ||
| Total | 381 kg | GR |
When the previous records and weight classes were discarded following readjustment, the IWF defined "world standards" as the minimum lifts needed to qualify as world records (WR), CommonWealth Authority defined "Commonwealth standards" and "Commonwealth games standards" as the minimum lifts needed to qualify as Commonwealth record (CR) and Commonwealth games record (GR) in the new weight classes. Wherever World Standard/Commonwealth Standard/Commonwealth Games Standard appear in the list above, no qualified weightlifter has yet lifted the benchmark weights in a sanctioned competition.
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
| Rank | Athlete | Bodyweight (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | |||||
| 95.20 | 161 | 166 | 171 | 171 GR | 200 | 210 | 210 GR | 381 GR | ||||
| 95.61 | 149 | 153 | 155 | 155 | 187 | 191 | 191 | 346 | ||||
| 95.06 | 150 | 155 | 155 | 185 | 188 | 188 | 343 | |||||
| 4 | 94.94 | 145 | 145 | 180 | 180 | 325 | ||||||
| 5 | 95.55 | 136 | 136 | 170 | 180 | 180 | 316 | |||||
| 6 | 95.36 | 138 | 138 | 165 | 165 | 303 | ||||||
| 7 | 94.75 | 130 | 136 | 141 | 141 | 160 | 160 | 301 | ||||
| ― | 95.90 | 154 | 158 | 158 | ||||||||
| ― | 89.74 | 150 | 150 | |||||||||
| ― | 95.15 | ― | ― | ― | ― | |||||||
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