1980 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the XXII. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Moscow
Competition venue	Izmailovo Sports Palace
Nations	20th
Athletes	187 (187 )
date	July 22nd to 31st, 1980
decisions	10
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At the XXII. The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow hosted ten weightlifting competitions. The venue was the Izmailovo Sports Palace. The Olympic competitions also counted as world championships for this year. The program was one weight class more than before.

Balance sheet

The Izmailovo Sports Palace during the 1980 Summer Games

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	5	3	-	8th
2	Bulgaria	2	4th	2	8th
3	Cuba	1	-	1	2
	Czechoslovakia	1	-	1	2
	Hungary	1	-	1	2
6th	GDR	-	2	1	3
7th	North Korea	-	1	1	2
8th	Poland	-	-	3	3

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Flyweight	Kanybek Osmonaliev	Ho Bong-chol	Han Gyong-si
Bantamweight	Daniel Nuñez	Jurik Sarkisjan	Tadeusz Dembończyk
Featherweight	Viktor Masin	Stefan Dimitrov	Marek Seweryn
lightweight	Yanko Russew	Joachim Kunz	Mintscho Paschow
medium weight	Assen Slatew	Alexander Pervi	Nedeltscho Kolew
Lightweight	Jurik Vardanyan	Blagoy Blagoev	Dušan Poliačik
Middle heavyweight	Péter Baczakó	Rumen Alexandrov	Frank Mantek
1. Heavyweight	Ota Zaremba	Igor Nikitin	Alberto Blanco
2. Heavyweight	Leanid Taranenka	Valentin Christow	György Szalai
Super heavyweight	Sultan Rachmanov	Jürgen Heuser	Tadeusz Rutkowski

Results

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Kanybek Osmonaliev	245.0 ( OR )
2	PRK	Ho Bong-chol	245.0 ( OR )
3	PRK	Han Gyong-si	245.0 ( OR )
4th	HUN	Béla Oláh	245.0
5	POLE	Stefan Leletko	240.0
6th	HUN	Ferenc Hornyák	237.5
7th	CUB	Francisco Casamayor	232.5
8th	MGL	Adjaagiin Jugdernamdschil	215.0
9	ITA	Gaetano Tosto	215.0
10	GRE	Ioannis Katsaidonis	207.5

Date: July 20, 1980
18 participants from 15 countries

Bantam weight (up to 56 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	CUB	Daniel Nuñez	275.0 ( WR )
2	URS	Jurik Sarkisjan	270.0
3	POLE	Tadeusz Dembończyk	265.0
4th	GDR	Andreas Letz	265.0
5	PRK	Yang Eui-yong	262.5
6th	HUN	Imre Stefanovics	260.0
7th	ROME	Gheorghe Maftei	247.5
8th	ROME	Petre Pavel	245.0
9	PRK	Choe Jong-sop	242.5
10	GRE	Ioannis Sidiropoulos	242.5

Date: July 21, 1980
21 participants from 17 countries

Feather weight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Viktor Masin	290.0 ( OR )
2	BUL	Stefan Dimitrov	287.5
3	POLE	Marek Seweryn	282.5
4th	POLE	Antoni Pawlak	275.0
5	CUB	Julio Loscos	275.0
6th	TCH	František Nedvěd	272.5
7th	CUB	Víctor Pérez	270.0
8th	ROME	Gelu Radu	265.0
9	FRA	Jean-Claude Chavigny	255.0
10	IRQ	Fajsal Matloub Fathi	252.5

Viktor Masin

Date: July 22, 1980
18 participants from 14 countries

Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	BUL	Yanko Russew	342.5
2	GDR	Joachim Kunz	335.0
3	BUL	Mintscho Paschow	325.0
4th	FRA	Daniel Senet	322.5
5	GDR	Günter Ambraß	320.0
6th	POLE	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	317.5
7th	CUB	Raúl González	317.5
8th	ROME	Virgil Dociu	310.0
9	TCH	Dušan Drška	290.0
10	FIN	Juhani Salakka	282.5

Date: July 23, 1980
20 participants from 17 countries

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	BUL	Assen Slatew	360.0 ( WR )
2	URS	Alexander Pervi	357.5
3	BUL	Nedeltscho Kolew	345.0
4th	CUB	Julio Echenique	327.5
5	ROME	Dragomir Ciorolan	322.5
6th	FIN	Tapio Kinnunen	320.0
7th	SWE	Bertil Sollevi	310.0
8th	GBR	Newton Burrowes	302.5
9	MEX	Rogelio Weatherbee	300.0
10	ITA	Vincenzo Pedicone	295.0
	GDR	Günther Schliwka	DNF

Date: July 24, 1980
16 participants from 14 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Jurik Vardanyan	400.0 ( WR )
2	BUL	Blagoy Blagoev	372.5
3	TCH	Dušan Poliačik	367.5
4th	POLE	Jan Lisowski	355.0
5	BUL	Krassimir Drandarov	355.0
6th	POLE	Paweł Rabczewski	350.0
7th	GDR	Detlef Blasche	345.0
8th	FIN	Juhani Avellan	332.5
9	YUG	Vladimir Zrnić	330.0
10	SWE	Stefan Jonsson	327.5

Jurik Vardanyan

Date: July 25, 1980
19 participants from 17 countries

Medium weight (up to 90 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	HUN	Péter Baczakó	377.5
2	BUL	Rumen Alexandrov	375.0
3	GDR	Frank Mantek	370.0
4th	TCH	Dalibor Řehák	365.0
5	POLE	Witold Walo	360.0
6th	TCH	Lubomír Sršeň	357.5
7th	ROME	Vasile Groapa	355.0
8th	GRE	Nikolaos Iliadis	345.0
9	GBR	Gary Langford	330.0
10	ITA	Norberto Oberburger	315.0

Date: July 27, 1980
18 participants from 16 countries

1. Heavyweight (up to 100 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	TCH	Ota Zaremba	395.0 ( OR )
2	URS	Igor Nikitin	392.5
3	CUB	Alberto Blanco	385.0
4th	GDR	Michael Henning	382.5
5	HUN	János Sólyomvári	380.0
6th	GDR	Manfred Funke	377.5
7th	TCH	Anton Baraniak	375.0
8th	HUN	László Varga	367.5
9	SWE	Michael Persson	360.0
10	FIN	Pekka Niemi	347.5
	AUT	Franz Strizik	DNF

Date: July 28, 1980
18 participants from 16 countries

2. Heavy weight (up to 110 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Leanid Taranenka	422.5 ( WR )
2	BUL	Valentin Christow	405.0
3	HUN	György Szalai	390.0
4th	SWE	Leif Nilsson	380.0
5	AUT	Vinzenz Hörtnagl	372.5
6th	ROME	Ștefan Taşnadi	360.0
7th	OUT	Donald Mitchell	352.5
8th	GRE	Dimitrios Zarzavatsidis	347.5
9	FIN	Viktor Sirkia	342.5
10	GDR	Andy Drzewiecki	320.0

Award ceremony

Date: July 29, 1980
13 participants from 13 countries

Super heavyweight (over 110 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Sultan Rachmanov	440.0 ( OR )
2	GDR	Jürgen Heuser	410.0
3	POLE	Tadeusz Rutkowski	407.5
4th	TCH	Rudolf Strejček	402.5
5	TCH	Bohuslav Braum	397.5
6th	CUB	Francisco Mendez	395.0
7th	POLE	Robert Skolimowski	385.0
8th	SYR	Talal Najjar	362.5

Sultan Rachamanov

Date: July 30, 1980
12 participants from 8 countries

Web links

Commons : Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1980 Summer Games (PDF, 27.6 MB)