1896 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Two-Arm (Men)

sport	Weightlifting
discipline	Two-armed
gender	Men
Attendees	6 athletes from 5 countries
Competition location	Panathinaic Stadium
Competition phase	April 7, 1896
Medalist -  Viggo Jensen  Sotirios Versis

Weightlifting competitions at the 1896 Olympic Games
One-armed	Men
Two-armed	Men

The two-armed weightlifting at the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 took place on April 7th in the Panathinaiko Stadium .

There was no weight limit in this competition. Each athlete had three attempts, after everyone had completed these, the three athletes with the best results received three more attempts.

Both arms could be used to lift the weights, the competition is comparable to today's pushing .

The Dane Viggo Jensen and the Briton Launceston Elliot both lifted 111.5 kg. Jensen was declared the winner by Prince Georg , however , because he had a "better" style with the same performance as Elliot and Elliot made a lunge forward. Because of this there was a protest by the British delegation , which gave each of the two athletes further attempts. Jensen injured himself slightly in one of these attempts, but none could achieve a better result. So it stayed with the previous decision and Jensen was named the first Olympic champion in weightlifting.

Result

rank	athlete	nation	Weight	annotation
1	Viggo Jensen	Denmark	111.5 kg	OR
2	Launceston Elliot	Great Britain	111.5 kg
3	Sotirios Versis	Greece	90.0 kg
4th	Giorgos Papasideris	Greece	90.0 kg
	Carl Schuhmann	German Empire	90.0 kg
6th	Momcsilló Tapavicza	Hungary	80.0 kg

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