1984 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the XXIII. Summer Olympics
information
venue	los Angeles
Competition venue	Barley Pavilion
Nations	48
Athletes	186 (186 men)
date	July 29 - August 8, 1984
decisions	10
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At the XXIII. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , ten weightlifting competitions were held. The venue was the Barley Pavilion on the grounds of Loyola Marymount University . The Olympic competitions also counted as world championships for this year.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	People's Republic of China	4th	2	-	6th
2	Romania	2	5	1	8th
3	BR Germany	2	-	1	3
4th	Australia	1	1	-	2
5	Italy	1	-	-	1
6th	United States	-	1	1	2
7th	Canada	-	1	-	1
8th	Japan	-	-	3	3
9	Finland	-	-	2	2
10	Chinese Taipei	-	-	1	1
	Great Britain	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Flyweight	Zeng Guoqiang	Zhou Peishun	Kazushito Manabe
Bantamweight	Wu Shude	Lai Runming	Masahiro Kotaka
Featherweight	Chen Weiqiang	Gelu Radu	Tsai Wen-Yee
lightweight	Yao Jingyuan	Andrei Socaci	Jouni Grönman
medium weight	Karl-Heinz Radschinsky	Jacques Demers	Dragomir Cioroslan
Lightweight	Petre Becheru	Robert Kabbas	Ryōji Isaoka
Middle heavyweight	Nicu Vlad	Dumitru Petre	David Mercer
1. Heavyweight	Rolf Milser	Vasile Groapa	Pekka Niemi
2. Heavyweight	Norberto Oberburger	Ștefan Taşnadi	Guy Carlton
Super heavyweight	Dean Lukin	Mario Martinez	Manfred Nerlinger

successes

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	CHN	Zeng Guoqiang	235.0
2	CHN	Zhou Peishun	235.0
3	JPN	Kazushito Manabe	232.5
4th	JPN	Hidemi Miyashita	230.0
5	INA	Maman Suryaman	227.5
6th	COR	Bang Hyo-mun	225.0
7th	PAN	José Díaz López	220.0
8th	DOOR	Levent Erdoğan	215.0
9	ISR	Meir Daloya	215.0
10	IND	Mahendran Kannan	215.0

Date: July 29, 1984
20 participants from 15 countries

Bantam weight (up to 56 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	CHN	Wu Shude	267.5
2	CHN	Lai Runming	265.0
3	JPN	Masahiro Kotaka	252.5
4th	JPN	Takashi Ichiba	250.0
5	COR	Kim chil-bong	245.0
6th	ESP	Dionisio Muñoz	242.5
7th	FIN	Arvo Ojalehto	242.5
8th	United States	Albert Hood	242.5
9	GRE	Ioannis Katsaidonis	240.0
10	IND	Deven Govindasami	235.0

Date: July 30, 1984
20 participants from 18 countries

Feather weight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	CHN	Chen Weiqiang	282.5
2	ROME	Gelu Radu	280.0
3	TPE	Tsai Wen-Yee	272.5
4th	JPN	Kaoru Wabiko	270.0
5	JPN	Yosuke Muraki	267.5
6th	COR	Lee Myeong-su	267.5
7th	INA	Sorie Enda Nasution	267.5
8th	FIN	Uolevi Kahelin	267.5
9	ROME	Mircea Tuli	265.0
10	EGY	Mohamed Youssef	252.5

Date: July 31, 1984
21 participants from 17 countries

Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	CHN	Yao Jingyuan	320.0
2	ROME	Andrei Socaci	312.5
3	FIN	Jouni Grönman	312.5
4th	GBR	Dean Willey	310.0
5	JPN	Chōji Taira	305.0
6th	JPN	Yasushige Sasaki	302.5
7th	OUT	Bill Stellios	302.5
8th	CHN	Ma Jianping	297.5
9	NGR	Patrick Bassey	295.0
10	ITA	Pietro Pujia	290.0
11	AUT	Gregor Bialowas	282.5

Date: August 1st, 1984
19 participants from 17 countries

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	FRG	Karl-Heinz Radschinsky	340.0
2	CAN	Jacques Demers	335.0
3	ROME	Dragomir Cioroslan	332.5
4th	GBR	David Morgan	330.0
5	CHN	Li Shunzhu	322.5
6th	IRQ	Mohammed Yaseen Mohammed	320.0
7th	OUT	Tony Pignone	317.5
8th	COR	Chun-jong Park	312.5
9	CAN	ichel Pietracupa	310.0
10	FRA	Daniel Cassiau-Haurie	307.5
	AUT	Roman Kainz	DNF

Date: August 2, 1984
22 participants from 18 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	ROME	Petre Becheru	355.0
2	OUT	Robert Kabbas	342.5
3	JPN	Ryōji Isaoka	340.0
4th	GBR	Newton Burrowes	327.5
5	EGY	Ibrahim El-Bakh	322.5
6th	COR	Lee Gang-seok	322.5
7th	CAN	Yvan Darsigny	322.5
8th	NZL	Allister Nalder	317.5
9	United States	Arn Kritsky	315.0
10	NZL	Michael Bernard	312.5

Date: August 4th, 1984
19 participants from 16 countries

Medium weight (up to 90 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	ROME	Nicu Vlad	392.5 ( OR )
2	ROME	Dumitru Petre	360
3	GBR	David Mercer	352.5
4th	FRG	Peter Immesberger	350.0
5	COR	Hwang U-won	350.0
6th	GRE	Nikolaos Iliadis	350.0
7th	THE	Henri Høeg	347.5
8th	MEX	José Garcés	342.5
9	AUT	Josef Span	342.5
10	GBR	Keith Boxell	342.5
14th	SUI	Daniel Tschan	337.5
	AUT	Erich Seidl	DNF

Date: August 5, 1984
26 participants from 20 countries

1. Heavyweight (up to 100 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	FRG	Rolf Milser	385.0
2	ROME	Vasile Groapa	382.5
3	FIN	Pekka Niemi	367.5
4th	CAN	Kevin Roy	357.5
5	United States	Ken Clark	352.5
6th	AUT	Franz Langthaler	350.0
7th	United States	Rich Shanko	350.0
8th	FRA	Jean-Marie Kretz	342.5
9	NZL	Kevin Blake	317.5
10	KEN	Pius Ochieng	300.0

Date: August 6, 1984
16 participants from 14 countries

2. Heavy weight (up to 110 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	ITA	Norberto Oberburger	390.0
2	ROME	Ștefan Taşnadi	380.0
3	United States	Guy Carlton	377.5
4th	FRG	Frank Seipelt	367.5
5	CAN	Albert Squires	365.0
6th	United States	Ric Eaton	352.5
7th	GRE	Giannis Gerontas	350.0
8th	FRG	Olaf Peters	347.5
9	JAM	Calvin Stamp	320.0
10	SYR	Abuaihuda ozone	315.0

Date: August 7, 1984
15 participants from 12 countries

Super heavyweight (over 110 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	OUT	Dean Lukin	412.5
2	United States	Mario Martinez	410.0
3	FRG	Manfred Nerlinger	397.5
4th	GRE	Ioannis Tsintsaris	347.5
5	NGR	Bartholomew Oluoma	337.5
6th	EGY	Mosad Mosbah	330.0
	NGR	Ironbar Bassey	DNF
	GRE	Serafim Grammatikopoulos	DSQ
	AUT	Stefan Laggner	DSQ

Date: August 8, 1984
9 participants from 7 countries

doping

The Lebanese Mahmoud Tarha (flyweight), the Algerian Ahmed Tarbi (bantamweight), the Swede Göran Pettersson (2nd heavyweight), the Austrian Stefan Laggner (super heavyweight) and the Greek Serafim Grammatikopoulos (super heavyweight) were disqualified for doping .

Web links

• Weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1984 Summer Games (PDF, 11.1 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Drug-Related Disqualifications in Men's Weightlifting at Summer Olympics , chidlovski.net
2. ^ Doping Irregularities at the Olympics , sports-reference.com