1976 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting
Weightlifting at the XXI. Summer Olympics |
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venue | Montreal |
Competition venue | Aréna Saint-Michel |
Nations | 46 |
Athletes | 173 (173 men) |
date | 18.-27. July 1976 |
decisions | 9 |
← Munich 1972 |
At the XXI. In the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , nine weightlifting competitions were held. The venue was the Aréna Saint-Michel . The Olympic competitions also counted as world championships for this year. In Montreal the duel of the disciplines snatch and push was carried out for the first time, it replaced the three-way battle of snatch, push and push that was carried out from 1928 to 1972.
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | Soviet Union | 7th | 1 | - | 8th |
2 | Bulgaria | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6th |
3 | GDR | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Poland | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
5 | Hungary | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
6th | France | - | 1 | - | 1 |
United States | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
8th | Japan | - | - | 2 | 2 |
9 | Iran | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Flyweight | Alexander Voronin | György Kőszegi | Mohammad Nassiri |
Bantamweight | Norair Nurikjan | Grzegorz Cziura | Kenkichi Andō |
Featherweight | Nikolai Kolesnikov | Georgi Todorov | Kazumasa Hirai |
lightweight | Petro Korol | Daniel Senet | Kazimierz Czarnecki |
medium weight | Jordan Mitkow | Vartan Militosyan | Peter Wenzel |
Lightweight | Valeryj Sharyj | Trendafil Stoychev | Péter Baczakó |
Middle heavyweight | Dawid Rigert | Lee James | Atanas Shopov |
Heavyweight | Yuri Saizew | Krastju Semerjiev | Tadeusz Rutkowski |
Super heavyweight | Vasily Alexeyev | Gerd Bonk | Helmut Losch |
Results
Flyweight (up to 52 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | URS | Alexander Voronin | 242.5 ( WR ) |
2 | HUN | György Kőszegi | 237.5 |
3 | IRN | Mohammad Nassiri | 235.0 |
4th | JPN | Masatomo Takeuchi | 232.5 |
5 | CUB | Francisco Casamayor | 227.5 |
6th | POLE | Stefan Leletko | 220.0 |
7th | TCH | Boleslav Pachol | 217.5 |
8th | CUB | Daniel Nuñez | 215.0 |
9 | PHI | Salvador Del Rosario | 212.5 |
10 | PRK | In the Jae-ho | 210.0 |
Date: July 18, 1976, 2:30 p.m.
23 participants from 18 countries
Bantam weight (up to 56 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | BUL | Norair Nurikjan | 262.5 ( WR ) |
2 | POLE | Grzegorz Cziura | 252.5 |
3 | JPN | Kenkichi Andō | 250.0 |
4th | POLE | Leszek Skorupa | 250.0 |
5 | HUN | Imre Foldi | 245.0 |
6th | GER | Bernhard Bachfisch | 242.5 |
7th | CUB | Carlos Lastre | 240.0 |
8th | IRN | Fazlollah Dehkhoda | 240.0 |
9 | FRA | Jean-Claude Chavigny | 235.0 |
10 | IRN | Feyzollah Nasseri | 232.5 |
AUT | Kurt Pittner | DNF |
Date: July 19, 1976, 7:00 p.m.
24 participants from 19 countries
Feather weight (up to 60 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | URS | Nikolai Kolesnikov | 285.0 ( OR ) |
2 | BUL | Georgi Todorov | 280.0 |
3 | JPN | Kazumasa Hirai | 275.0 |
4th | JPN | Takashi Saitō | 262.5 |
5 | ISR | Eduward Weitz | 262.5 |
6th | IRN | Davoud Maleki | 260.0 |
7th | CUB | Pedro Fuentes | 157.5 |
8th | PRK | Om Jong-Guk | 255.0 |
9 | MEX | Andrés Santoyo | 250.0 |
10 | ITA | Peppino Tanti | 247.5 |
Date: July 20, 1976, 7:00 p.m.
17 participants from 14 countries
Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | URS | Petro Korol | 305.0 |
2 | FRA | Daniel Senet | 300.0 |
3 | POLE | Kazimierz Czarnecki | 295.0 |
4th | GDR | Günter Ambraß | 295.0 |
5 | IRN | Yatsuo Shimaya | 292.5 |
6th | CUB | Roberto Urrutia | 292.5 |
7th | FRG | Werner Schraut | 290.0 |
8th | FRA | Roland Chavigny | 285.0 |
9 | GBR | Kevin Welch | 282.5 |
10 | AUT | Walter Legel | 272.5 |
13 | AUT | Gottfried Langthaler | 270.0 |
Date: July 21, 1976, 7:00 p.m.
23 participants from 18 countries
The Pole Zbigniew Kaczmarek won the competition with 307.5 kg, but had to surrender his gold medal after he was convicted of doping with anabolic steroids.
Middle weight (up to 75 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | BUL | Jordan Mitkow | 335.0 ( OR ) |
2 | URS | Vartan Militosyan | 330.0 |
3 | GDR | Peter Wenzel | 327.5 |
4th | GDR | Wolfgang Huebner | 320.0 |
5 | FIN | Arvo Ala-Pöntiö | 315.0 |
6th | HUN | András Stark | 315.0 |
7th | TCH | Ondrej Hekel | 312.5 |
8th | CUB | Daniel Zayas | 310.0 |
9 | FRG | Norbert Bergmann | 310.0 |
10 | FRG | Klaus Groh | 307.5 |
Date: July 22, 1976, 7:00 p.m.
17 participants from 14 countries
Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | URS | Valeryj Sharyj | 365.0 ( OR ) |
2 | BUL | Trendafil Stoychev | 360.0 |
3 | HUN | Péter Baczakó | 345.0 |
4th | GRE | Nikolaos Iliadis | 340.0 |
5 | FIN | Juhani Avellan | 330.0 |
6th | SWE | Stefan Jacobsson | 317.5 |
7th | JPN | Sueo Fujishiro | 315.0 |
8th | FRG | Gerd Kennel | 312.5 |
9 | THE | Erling Johansen | 307.5 |
10 | United States | Samuel Bigler | 307.5 |
FRG | Rolf Milser | DNF |
Date: July 24, 1976, 7:00 p.m.
17 participants from 14 countries
Bulgarian Blagoj Blagoew originally came second and had to surrender his silver medal after being convicted of doping with anabolic steroids.
Medium weight (up to 90 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | URS | David Rigert | 382.5 ( OR ) |
2 | United States | Lee James | 362.5 |
3 | BUL | Atanas Shopov | 360.0 |
4th | HUN | György Rehus-Uzor | 350.0 |
5 | GDR | Peter Petzold | 345.0 |
6th | CUB | Alberto Blanco | 345.0 |
7th | FRA | Yvon Coussin | 332.5 |
8th | ISL | Guðmundur Sigurðsson | 332.5 |
9 | GBR | Gary Langford | 327.5 |
10 | BEL | Jean-Pierre Van Lerberghe | 327.5 |
12 | AUT | Rudolf Hill | 320.0 |
CHE | Michel Broillet | DNF |
Date: July 25, 1976, 7:00 p.m.
19 participants from 16 countries
Heavy weight (up to 110 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | URS | Yuri Saizew | 385.0 |
2 | BUL | Krastju Semerjiev | 385.0 |
3 | POLE | Tadeusz Rutkowski | 360.0 |
4th | FRA | Pierre Gourrier | 372.5 |
5 | GDR | Jürgen Ciezki | 372.5 |
6th | CUB | Javier González | 365.0 |
7th | SWE | Leif Nilsson | 365.0 |
8th | TCH | Rudolf Strejček | 362.5 |
9 | CAN | Russ Prior | 362.5 |
10 | IRN | Taito Haara | 360.0 |
13 | AUT | Vinzenz Hörtnagl | 350.0 |
Date: July 26, 1976, 7:00 p.m.
22 participants from 16 countries
The Bulgarian Valentin Christow originally won the competition with 400.0 kg. Shortly after the competitions he was convicted of doping and his gold medal was revoked.
Super heavyweight (over 110 kg)
space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
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1 | URS | Vasily Alexeyev | 440.0 ( OR ) |
2 | GDR | Gerd Bonk | 405.0 |
3 | GDR | Helmut Losch | 387.5 |
4th | TCH | Jan Nagy | 387.5 |
5 | United States | Bruce Wilhelm | 387.5 |
6th | CUB | Gerardo Fernández | 365.0 |
7th | OUT | Robert Edmond | 347.5 |
8th | SWE | Jan-Olof Nolsjö | 337.5 |
9 | United States | Sam Walker | 325.0 |
FIN | Jouko Leppä | DNF | |
TCH | Petr Pavlásek | DNF |
Date: July 27, 1976, 7:00 p.m.
11 participants from 8 countries
doping
The Swede Arne Norrback (featherweight), the Pole Zbigniew Kaczmarek (lightweight), the Romanian Dragomir Cioroslan (middleweight), the Bulgarian Blagoj Blagoew (light heavyweight), the Americans Phil Grippaldi (middle heavyweight) and Mark Cameron (heavyweight), the Bulgarian Valentin Christow (Heavyweight) and the Czechoslovakian Petr Pavlásek (super heavyweight) were disqualified for doping .
Web links
- Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official results of the 1976 Summer Games (PDF, 22.7 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 614 .
- ↑ a b Kluge: Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle III. P. 615.
- ^ Drug-Related Disqualifications in Men's Weightlifting at Summer Olympics , chidlovski.net
- ^ Doping Irregularities at the Olympics , sports-reference.com