The boys' 56 kg weightlifting event was the first men's event at the weightlifting competition at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

2010 Summer Youth Olympics

The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, officially known as the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games , were an international multi-sport event for youths that took place in the city-state of Singapore from 14 to 26 August 2010, in the XXIX Olympiad. They were the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics, a major...

, with competitors limited to a maximum of 56 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 15 at 18:00.

Each lifter performed in both the snatch

Snatch (weightlifting)

The snatch is one of the two olympic weightlifting events .The essence of the event is to lift a barbell from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement. The barbell is pulled as high as the lifter can manage at which point the barbell is flipped overhead...

 and clean and jerk

Clean and jerk

The clean and jerk is one of the two Olympic weightlifting events .The clean portion of the lift refers to the lifter explosively pulling the weight from the floor to a racked position across deltoids and clavicles...

 lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted.

Medalists

	256 kg
	254 kg
	243 kg

Results

Rank	Name	Group	Body Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total (kg)
				1	2	3	Res	1	2	3	Res
		A	55.40	110	114	116	116	134	139	140	140	256
		A	55.83	108	113	117	117	132	137	140	137	254
		A	55.95	105	105	108	108	135	149	149	135	243
4		A	55.67	94	98	98	98	122	127	128	128	226
5		A	55.63	98	103	103	103	119	122	125	122	225
6		A	55.85	98	98	100	100	118	118	123	118	218
7		A	55.41	90	95	95	95	110	115	120	120	215
8		A	55.31	91	96	96	96	118	122	122	118	214
9		A	55.56	87	92	92	92	113	117	117	117	209
10		A	55.76	85	90	90	85	100	105	105	100	185
11		A	53.57	45	55	60	55	55	65	65	65	120