1896 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the 1896 Olympic Games
information
venue	Athens
Competition venue	Panathinaic Stadium
Nations	5
Athletes	7 (7 )
date	April 7, 1896
decisions	2
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At the I Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 , two weightlifting competitions were held. The venue was the Panathinaiko Stadium .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country			Third	total
1	Denmark	1	1	-	2
2	Great Britain	1	1	-	2
3	Greece	-	-	2	2

Medalist

Men competitor silver bronze Third One-armed  Launceston Elliot  Viggo Jensen  Alexandros Nikolopoulos Two-armed  Viggo Jensen  Launceston Elliot  Sotirios Versis

Results

One-armed

→ Main article : 1896 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - One-Arm (Men)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	GBR	Launceston Elliot	71.0
2	THE	Viggo Jensen	57.0
3	GRE	Alexandros Nikolopoulos	57.0
4th	GRE	Sotirios Versis	40.0

Two-armed

→ Main article : 1896 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Two-Arm (Men)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	THE	Viggo Jensen	111.5
2	GBR	Launceston Elliot	111.5
3	GRE	Sotirios Versis	090.0
4th	GER	Carl Schuhmann	090.0
	GRE	Giorgos Papasideris
6th	HUN	Momcsilló Tapavicza	080.0

Viggo Jensen was declared an Olympic champion because he had a "better" style with the same performance as Launceston Elliot. Elliot took a step forward.

Web links

• Weightlifting at the Olympic Games 1896 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )