The Men's 62 kilograms weightlifting event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, took place at ExCeL London on 30 July.[1]
Total score was the sum of the lifter's best result in each of the snatch and the clean and jerk, with three lifts allowed for each lift. In case of a tie, the lighter lifter won; if still tied, the lifter who took the fewest attempts to achieve the total score won. Lifters without a valid snatch score did not perform the clean and jerk.[2]
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00)
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Erol Bilgin of Turkey originally finished eighth, but he was disqualified in 2020 after a re-analysis of his samples from the 2012 Olympics resulted in an anti-doping violation.[3]