1968 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting
Weightlifting at the XIX. Summer Olympics |
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venue | Mexico city |
Competition venue | Teatro de los Insurgentes |
Nations | 55 |
Athletes | 160 (160 men) |
date | 13-19 October 1968 |
decisions | 7th |
← Tokyo 1964 |
At the XIX. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , seven weightlifting competitions were held. The venue was the Teatro de los Insurgentes . The Olympic competitions also counted as world championships for this year.
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | - | 6th |
2 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
3 | Iran | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
4th | Poland | 1 | - | 4th | 5 |
5 | Finland | 1 | - | - | 1 |
6th | Hungary | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
7th | Belgium | - | 1 | - | 1 |
8th | United States | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Bantamweight | Mohammad Nassiri | Imre Foldi | Henryk Trębicki |
Featherweight | Yoshinobu Miyake | Ditto Shanidze | Yoshiyuki Miyake |
lightweight | Waldemar Baszanowski | Parviz Jalayer | Marian Zieliński |
medium weight | Viktor Kurentsov | Masushi Ōuchi | Karoly Bakos |
Lightweight | Boris Selitsky | Vladimir Belyayev | Norbert Ozimek |
Middle heavyweight | Kaarlo Kangasniemi | Jaan Talts | Marek Gołąb |
Heavyweight | Leonid Shabotinsky | Serge Reding | Joe Dube |
Results
Bantam weight (up to 56 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | IRN | Mohammad Nassiri | 367.5 |
2 | HUN | Imre Foldi | 367.5 |
3 | POLE | Henryk Trębicki | 357.5 |
4th | URS | Gennady Chetin | 352.5 |
5 | JPN | Shirō Ichinoseki | 350.0 |
6th | PURE | Fernando Báez | 345.0 |
7th | BUL | Atanas Kirov | 335.0 |
8th | THA | Chaiya Sukchinda | 330.0 |
9 | GBR | Precious McKenzie | 330.0 |
10 | AUT | Kurt Pittner | 322.5 |
Date: October 13, 1968
20 participants from 19 countries
In the event of a tie, the lower body weight decided in favor of Mohammad Nassiri.
Feather weight (up to 60 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | JPN | Yoshinobu Miyake | 392.5 |
2 | URS | Ditto Shanidze | 387.5 |
3 | JPN | Yoshiyuki Miyake | 385.0 |
4th | POLE | Jan Wojnowski | 382.5 |
5 | POLE | Mieczysław Nowak | 375.0 |
6th | IRN | Nasrollah Dehnavi | 365.0 |
7th | COR | Young Moo-shin | 365.0 |
8th | MEX | Manuel Mateos | 360.0 |
9 | BUL | Mladen Kuchev | 357.5 |
10 | HUN | János Benedek | 355.0 |
11 | FRG | Dieter Rauscher | 352.5 |
Date: October 14, 1968
28 participants from 22 countries
Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | POLE | Waldemar Baszanowski | 437.5 |
2 | IRN | Parviz Jalayer | 422.5 |
3 | POLE | Marian Zieliński | 420.0 |
4th | JPN | Nobuyuki Hatta | 417.5 |
5 | COR | Won Shin-hee | 415.0 |
6th | BUL | Janós Bagócs | 412.5 |
7th | JPN | Takeo Kimura | 405.0 |
8th | BUL | Konstantin Tilew | 397.5 |
9 | TCH | Ondrej Hekel | 390.0 |
10 | FRG | Uwe Kliche | 390.0 |
Date: October 15, 1968
20 participants from 17 countries
Middle weight (up to 75 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | URS | Viktor Kurentsov | 475.0 |
2 | JPN | Masushi Ōuchi | 455.0 |
3 | HUN | Karoly Bakos | 440.0 |
4th | United States | Russell Knipp | 437.5 |
5 | COR | Lee Chun-sik | 437.5 |
6th | FRG | Werner Dittrich | 435.0 |
7th | TCH | Miroslav Kolařík | 430.0 |
8th | United States | Frederick Lowe | 430.0 |
9 | FRA | Rolf Maier | 425.0 |
10 | JPN | Sadahiro Miwa | 425.0 |
11 | FRG | Albert Huser | 410.0 |
Date: October 16, 1968
20 participants from 17 countries
Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | URS | Boris Selitsky | 485.0 |
2 | URS | Vladimir Belyayev | 485.0 |
3 | POLE | Norbert Ozimek | 472.5 |
4th | HUN | Győző Veres | 472.5 |
5 | GDR | Karl Arnold | 467.5 |
6th | TCH | Hans Zdražila | 462.5 |
7th | FIN | Jouni Kailajärvi | 445.0 |
8th | FIN | Lee Jong-sup | 440.0 |
9 | PURE | Victor Angel Pagán | 435.0 |
10 | CAN | Pierre St-Jean | 435.0 |
11 | FRG | Rainer Dörrzapf | 435.0 |
Date: October 17, 1968
26 participants from 22 countries
Medium weight (up to 90 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | FIN | Kaarlo Kangasniemi | 517.5 |
2 | URS | Jaan Talts | 507.5 |
3 | POLE | Marek Gołąb | 495.0 |
4th | SWE | Bo Johansson | 492.5 |
5 | FIN | Jaakko Kailajärvi | 485.0 |
6th | GER | Árpád Nemessányi | 482.5 |
7th | United States | Philip Grippaldi | 477.5 |
8th | HUN | Vítězslav Ország | 462.5 |
9 | United States | Bart Bartholomew | 457.5 |
10 | FRA | Pierre Gourrier | 455.0 |
Date: October 18, 1968
29 participants from 22 countries
Heavy weight (over 90 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | URS | Leonid Shabotinsky | 572.5 |
2 | BEL | Serge Reding | 555.0 |
3 | United States | Joe Dube | 555.0 |
4th | GDR | Manfred Rieger | 532.5 |
5 | FRG | Rudolf Mang | 525.0 |
6th | FIN | Mauno Lindroos | 495.0 |
7th | FIN | Kalevi Lahdenranta | 492.5 |
8th | NZL | Donald Oliver | 490.0 |
9 | NED | Piet van der Kruk | 487.5 |
10 | GBR | Terry Perdue | 487.5 |
Date: October 19, 1968
17 participants from 14 countries
Web links
- Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official results of the 1968 Summer Games (PDF, 24.4 MB)