Date | 21 July 1980 — 14:00-19:00 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Dvorets sporta Izmaylovo, Moskva | |
Participants | 21 from 17 countries | |
Format | Total of best lifts in snatch and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight. |
None of the medalists from 1976 had returned but the 1978 World Champion, Cuban Daniel Núñez, was in Moskva. He put the gold medal away with a world record snatch of 125.0 kg, although Soviet Armenian Yuri Sarkisyan cleaned & jerked a world record 157.5 kg to take the silver medal. The bronze appeared to be a tie between Poland’s Tadeusz Dembończyk and East German Andreas Letz, who both lifted 265.0 kg and both had weighed 55.6 kg at the weigh-in. They were re-weighed after the competition, with Dembończyk getting the bronze medal, another example, as in the flyweight class, of a medal awarded because one guy sweated more than the other.
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | K | |||
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1 | Daniel Núñez | ![]() | 275.0 | Gold | ||
2 | Yurik Sarkisyan | ![]() | 270.0 | Silver | ||
3 | Tadeusz Dembończyk | ![]() | 265.0 | Bronze | 1 | |
4 | Andreas Letz | ![]() | 265.0 | 2 | ||
5 | Yang Eui-Yong | ![]() | 262.5 | |||
6 | Imre Stefanovics | ![]() | 260.0 | |||
7 | Gheorghe Maftei | ![]() | 247.5 | |||
8 | Petre Pavel | ![]() | 245.0 | |||
9 | Choe Jong-Sop | ![]() | 242.5 | |||
10 | Ioannis Sidiropoulos | ![]() | 242.5 | |||
11 | Ahmed Tarbi | ![]() | 240.0 | |||
12 | Abdul Karim Gizar | ![]() | 240.0 | |||
13 | Arvo Ojalehto | ![]() | 237.5 | |||
14 | Johnny Helsing | ![]() | 232.5 | |||
15 | Pertti Torikka | ![]() | 230.0 | |||
16 | Lorry Orsini | ![]() | 220.0 | |||
17 | Ali Shalabi | ![]() | 215.0 | |||
18 | Ashok Kumar Karki | ![]() | 145.0 | |||
Tamil Selwan Muniswamy | ![]() | 100.0 | ||||
Bruno Lebrun | ![]() | 105.0 | ||||
György Kőszegi | ![]() | 110.0 |