1976 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the XXI. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Montreal
Competition venue	Aréna Saint-Michel
Nations	46
Athletes	173 (173 men)
date	18.-27. July 1976
decisions	9
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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
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 614 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kluge: Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle III. P. 615.
3. ^ Drug-Related Disqualifications in Men's Weightlifting at Summer Olympics , chidlovski.net
4. ^ Doping Irregularities at the Olympics , sports-reference.com