1. Home
  2. Events
  3. Weightlifting — Middle-Heavyweight, Men

Weightlifting — Middle-Heavyweight, Men

Times held 18
Total participants 323
Total countries 97

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1952 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 20 20
1956 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 15 14
1960 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 20 17
1964 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 18
1968 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 29 22
1972 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 23 19
1976 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 16
1980 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 18 16
1984 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 26 20
1988 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 22
1992 Middle-Heavyweight (≤90 kilograms), Men Olympic 23 19
1996 Middle-Heavyweight (≤91 kilograms), Men Olympic 25 22
2000 Middle-Heavyweight (≤94 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 17
2004 Middle-Heavyweight (≤94 kilograms), Men Olympic 25 18
2008 Middle-Heavyweight (≤94 kilograms), Men Olympic 18 14
2012 Middle-Heavyweight (≤94 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 18
2016 Middle-Heavyweight (≤94 kilograms), Men Olympic 18 15
2020 Middle-Heavyweight (≤96 kilograms), Men Olympic 15 15

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1952 Norb SchemanskyUSA Grigory NovakURS Lennox KilgourTTO
1956 Arkady VorobyovURS Dave SheppardUSA Jean DebufFRA
1960 Arkady VorobyovURS Trofim LomakinURS Louis MartinGBR
1964 Vladimir GolovanovURS Louis MartinGBR Ireneusz PalińskiPOL
1968 Kaarlo KangasniemiFIN Jaan TaltsURS Marek GołąbPOL
1972 Andon NikolovBUL Atanas ShopovBUL Hans BettembourgSWE
1976 David RigertURS Lee JamesUSA Atanas ShopovBUL
1980 Péter BaczakóHUN Rumen AleksandrovBUL Frank MantekGDR
1984 Nicu VladROU Petre DumitruROU David MercerGBR
1988 Anatoly KhrapatyURS Nail MukhamedyarovURS Sławomir ZawadaPOL
1992 K'akhi K'akhiashviliEUN Sergey SyrtsovEUN Sergiusz WołczanieckiPOL
1996 Aleksey PetrovRUS Leonidas KokasGRE Oliver CarusoGER
2000 Akakios KakiasviliGRE Szymon KołeckiPOL Aleksey PetrovRUS
2004 Milen DobrevBUL Khadzhimurat AkkayevRUS Eduard TyukinRUS
2008 Szymon KołeckiPOL Arsen KasabijewGEO Yohandris HernándezCUB
2012 Saeid MohammadpourIRI Kim Min-JaeKOR Tomasz ZielińskiPOL
2016 Sohrab MoradiIRI Vadzim StraltsouBLR Aurimas DidžbalisLTU
2020 Fares IbrahimQAT Keydomar VallenillaVEN Anton PliesnoiGEO

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Soviet Union URS 5 4 0 9
Bulgaria BUL 2 2 1 5
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 2 0 0 2
United States USA 1 2 0 3
Poland POL 1 1 5 7
Russian Federation RUS 1 1 2 4
Greece GRE 1 1 0 2
Romania ROU 1 1 0 2
Unified Team EUN 1 1 0 2
Finland FIN 1 0 0 1
Hungary HUN 1 0 0 1
Qatar QAT 1 0 0 1
Great Britain GBR 0 1 2 3
Georgia GEO 0 1 1 2
Belarus BLR 0 1 0 1
Republic of Korea KOR 0 1 0 1
Venezuela VEN 0 1 0 1
Cuba CUB 0 0 1 1
East Germany GDR 0 0 1 1
France FRA 0 0 1 1
Germany GER 0 0 1 1
Lithuania LTU 0 0 1 1
Sweden SWE 0 0 1 1
Trinidad and Tobago TTO 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Akakios Kakiasvili GEO
GRE
EUN		 2 0 0 2
Arkady Vorobyov RUS
URS		 2 0 0 2
Szymon Kołecki POL 1 1 0 2
Aleksey Petrov RUS 1 0 1 2
Andon Nikolov BUL 1 0 0 1
Kaarlo Kangasniemi FIN 1 0 0 1
Péter Baczakó HUN 1 0 0 1
Anatoly Khrapaty KAZ
URS		 1 0 0 1
Nicu Vlad ROU 1 0 0 1
Vladimir Golovanov RUS
URS		 1 0 0 1
David Rigert RUS
URS		 1 0 0 1
Norb Schemansky USA 1 0 0 1
Milen Dobrev BUL 1 0 0 1
Saeid Mohammadpour IRI 1 0 0 1
Sohrab Moradi IRI 1 0 0 1
Fares Ibrahim QAT 1 0 0 1