| | Event type
Middleweight (≤75 kilograms), Men
| Date | 22 July 1976 — 14:30-19:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Aréna Saint-Michel, Montréal, Québec | |
| Participants | 17 from 14 countries | |
| Format | Total of best lifts in snatch and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight. | |
The favorites in this class were East German Peter Wenzel, the 1975 World and European Champion, and Bulgarian Yordan Mitkov, runner-up to Wenzel at both meets in 1975. They were tied after the snatch with 145.0 kg, also matched by Soviet lifter Vartan Militosyan, but Mitkov’s clean & jerk of 190.0 kg brought him the gold medal, with Militosyan placing second and Wenzel winning bronze. Romanian Dragomir Cioroslan originally placed fourth but was disqualified for a doping positive for fencanfamine, a stimulant.
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | K | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yordan Mitkov |  BUL | 335.0 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Vardan Militosyan |  URS | 330.0 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Peter Wenzel |  GDR | 327.5 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Wolfgang Hübner | GDR | 320.0 | |||
| 5 | Arvo Ala-Pöntiö |  FIN | 315.0 | |||
| 6 | András Stark |  HUN | 315.0 | |||
| 7 | Ondrej Hekel |  TCH | 312.5 | |||
| 8 | Daniel Zayas |  CUB | 310.0 | |||
| 9 | Norbert Bergmann |  FRG | 310.0 | |||
| 10 | Klaus Groh | FRG | 307.5 | |||
| 11 | Fred Lowe |  USA | 305.0 | |||
| 12 | Robert Kabbas |  AUS | 297.5 | |||
| 13 | Mehdi Attar Ashrafi |  IRI | 295.0 | |||
| 14 | Christian Kinck |  FRA | 285.0 | |||
| 15 | Malik Arshad |  PAK | 282.5 | |||
| János Komjáti | HUN | 135.0 | ||||
| Dragomir Cioroslan |  ROU | [320.0] | 1 |