1988 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the XXIV Summer Olympics
information
venue	South Korea
Competition venue	Olympic Park Seoul
Nations	62
Athletes	226 (226 men)
date	18.-29. September 1988
decisions	10
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Ten weightlifting competitions were held at the XXIV Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988 . The venue was the weightlifting hall in Olympic Park Seoul .

Balance sheet

Weightlifting hall

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	6th	2	-	8th
2	Bulgaria	2	1	1	4th
3	GDR	1	1	1	3
4th	Turkey	1	-	-	1
5	Hungary	-	2	-	2
6th	China	-	1	4th	5
7th	BR Germany	-	1	2	3
8th	South Korea	-	1	1	2
9	Romania	-	1	-	1
10	Poland	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Flyweight	Sewdalin Marinov	Chun Byung-kwan	Hey Zhuoqiang
Bantamweight	Oksen Mirsojan	Hey Yingqiang	Liu Shoubin
Featherweight	Naim Suleymanoglu	Stefan Topurow	Ye Huanmin
lightweight	Joachim Kunz	Israjel Militosjan	Li Jinhe
medium weight	Borislav Gidikow	Ingo Steinhöfel	Alexander Varbanov
Lightweight	Israil Arsamakov	István Messzi	Lee Hyung-kun
Middle heavyweight	Anatoly Chrapaty	Nail Muchamedjarov	Sławomir Zawada
1. Heavyweight	Pavel Kuznetsov	Nicu Vlad	Peter Immesberger
2. Heavyweight	Yuri Sakharevich	József Jacsó	Ronny Weller
Super heavyweight	Alyaksandr Kurlowitsch	Manfred Nerlinger	Martin Zawieja

Results

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	BUL	Sewdalin Marinov	270.0
2	COR	Chun Byung-kwan	260.0
3	CHN	Hey Zhuoqiang	257.5
4th	CHN	Zhang Shoulie	257.5
5	POLE	Jacek Gutowski	247.5
6th	ROME	Traian Cihărean	240.0
7th	HUN	Béla Oláh	237.5
8th	JPN	Kazushito Manabe	230.0
9	COR	Hwang In-dong	230.0
10	VEN	Humberto Fuentes	227.5

Date: September 18, 1988
24 participants from 18 countries

Bantam weight (up to 56 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Oksen Mirsojan	292.5
2	CHN	Hey Yingqiang	287.5
3	CHN	Liu Shoubin	267.5
4th	INA	Dirdja Wihardja	255.0
5	JPN	Takashi Ichiba	252.5
6th	COR	Kim Gwi-sik	252.5
7th	ESP	Joaquín Valle	247.5
8th	ITA	Giovanni Scarantino	245.0
9	FRA	Pascal Arnou	245.0
10	ALG	Azzedine Basbas	245.0

Date: September 19, 1988
23 participants from 17 countries

The Bulgarian Mitko Grablew was convicted of doping with furosemide and got the gold medal revoked .

Feather weight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	DOOR	Naim Suleymanoglu	342.5
2	BUL	Stefan Topurow	312.5
3	CHN	Ye Huanmin	287.5
4th	COR	Min Jun-gi	280.0
5	JPN	Yosuke Muraki	277.5
6th	GRE	Ioannis Sidiropoulos	265.0
7th	JPN	Kazushige Oguri	260.0
8th	COL	Tolentino Murillo	260.0
9	COL	John Salazar	260.0
10	PURE	Angel Arroyo	235.0

Date: September 20, 1988
17 participants from 14 countries

Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	GDR	Joachim Kunz	340.0
2	URS	Israjel Militosjan	337.5
3	CHN	Li Jinhe	325.0
4th	POLE	Marek Seweryn	317.5
5	DOOR	Ergun Batmaz	317.5
6th	CHN	Xiao Minglin	305.0
7th	HUN	Istvan Kerek	302.5
8th	GRE	Christos Konstantinidis	300.0
9	JPN	Chōji Taira	297.5
10	CAN	Langis Cote	297.5

Date: September 21, 1988
29 participants from 25 countries

The Bulgarian Angel Gentschew was deprived of the gold medal like his compatriot Mitko Grablew (class up to 56 kg) because of doping (tested positive for furosemide ). The Bulgarian Weightlifting Association then withdrew its entire team to prevent further doping revelations.

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	BUL	Borislav Gidikow	375.0
2	GDR	Ingo Steinhöfel	360.0
3	BUL	Alexander Varbanov	357.5
4th	CHN	Cai Yanshu	347.5
5	ROME	Andrei Socaci	347.5
6th	POLE	Waldemar Kosiński	332.5
7th	GBR	Dean Willey	332.5
8th	United States	Roberto Urrutia	327.5
9	ITA	Angelo Mannironi	325.0
10	INA	I Nyoman Sudarma	320.0

Date: September 22, 1988
25 participants from 20 countries

The fourth placed Kálmán Csengeri (HUN) was disqualified for doping.

Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Israil Arsamakov	377.5
2	HUN	István Messzi	370.0
3	COR	Lee Hyung-kun	367.5
4th	GBR	Dave Morgan	365.0
5	POLE	Krzysztof Siemion	357.5
6th	JPN	Ryoji Isaoka	350.0
7th	ITA	Fausto Tosi	340.0
8th	DOOR	Ali Eroğlu	330.0
9	NGR	Muyiwa Odusanya	320.0
10	DOM	Frank Pérez	317.5

Date: September 24, 1988
22 participants from 20 countries

Medium weight (up to 90 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Anatoly Chrapaty	412.5
2	URS	Nail Muchamedjarov	400.0
3	POLE	Sławomir Zawada	400.0
4th	POLE	Andrzej Piotrowski	365.0
5	HUN	Attila Buda	360.0
6th	GBR	David Mercer	357.5
7th	FRG	Roland Feldhoffer	350.0
8th	GBR	Keith Boxell	350.0
9	HUN	Zoltán Balázsfi	345.0
10	CAN	Guy Greavette	337.5

Date: September 25, 1988
28 participants from 22 countries

1. Heavyweight (up to 100 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Pavel Kuznetsov	425.0
2	ROME	Nicu Vlad	402.5
3	FRG	Peter Immesberger	395.0
4th	HUN	János Bökfi	392.5
5	FRA	Francis Tournefier	385.0
6th	CAN	Denis Garon	382.5
7th	COR	Hwang U-won	382.5
8th	AUT	Franz Langthaler	377.5
9	ITA	Fabio Magrini	370.0
10	FRG	Maik Nill	370.0

Date: September 26, 1988
21 participants from 17 countries

Andor Szanyi (HUN) was deprived of the silver medal for doping (evidence of stanozolol in the urine sample).

2. Heavy weight (up to 110 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Yuri Sakharevich	455.0
2	HUN	József Jacsó	427.5
3	GDR	Ronny Weller	425.0
4th	GDR	Michael Schubert	425.0
5	URS	Alexander Popov	420.0
6th	ITA	Norberto Oberburger	415.0
7th	POLE	Stanisław Małysa	395.0
8th	FRG	Frank Seipelt	387.5
9	SWE	Rickard Nilsson	375.0
10	THE	Frank Juul Strømbo	367.5
	FRG	Eduard Ohlinger	DNF

Date: September 27, 1988
20 participants from 15 countries

Super heavyweight (over 110 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Alyaksandr Kurlowitsch	462.5
2	FRG	Manfred Nerlinger	430.0
3	FRG	Martin Zawieja	415.0
4th	United States	Mario Martinez	407.5
5	TCH	Petr Hudeček	400.0
6th	EGY	Reda El-Batoty	392.5
7th	OUT	Charles Garzarella	370.0
8th	GRE	Pavlos Saltsidis	367.5
9	GBR	Matthew Vine	352.5
10	United States	John Bergman	352.5

Date: September 29, 1988
17 participants from 13 countries

doping

There were five doping cases : the Bulgarians Mitko Grablew (bantamweight) and Angel Gentschew (lightweight), the Spaniard Fernando Mariaca (lightweight) and the Hungarians Kálmán Csengeri (middleweight) and Andor Szanyi (1st heavyweight). After the medal recognition, there was no new award ceremony for the athletes who moved up, who had won their medals in a clean or unsporting way.

literature

• Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1988 Summer Games (PDF, 24.7 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 266-267 .
2. ↑ Kluge: Summer Olympic Games - The Chronicle IV. P. 267.
3. ^ Drug-Related Disqualifications in Men's Weightlifting at Summer Olympics , chidlovski.net
4. ^ Doping Irregularities at the Olympics , sports-reference.com