| | Event type
Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kg), Men
| Date | 31 August 1920 — 14:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Olympisch Stadion, Antwerpen | |
| Participants | 11 from 9 countries | |
| Format | Total of best lifts in three phases determined placement. | |
Ernest Cadine, the gold medalist, never placed at the World or European Championships. Fritz Hünenberger, who placed second, would win the European Championship in this class in 1922. Hünenberger also repeated his 1920 light-heavyweight silver medal at Paris in 1924.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Kilograms | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ernest Cadine |  FRA | 295.0 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Fritz Hünenberger |  SUI | 277.5 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Erik Pettersson |  SWE | 267.5 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Erik Carlsson | SWE | 262.5 | |||
| 5 | Maurice Davène | FRA | 250.0 | |||
| 6 | Gino Mattiello |  ITA | 235.0 | |||
| 7 | Jan Welter |  NED | 230.0 | |||
| =8 | Jaroslav Dvořák |  TCH | 227.5 | |||
| =8 | Leonard Van De Roye |  BEL | 227.5 | |||
| 10 | Søren Petersen |  DEN | 217.5 | |||
| Rudolf Ekström |  FIN | (70.0) |