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Host City: München, West Germany
Venue(s): Weightlifting Hall, Exhibition Lands (Hall 7), München
Date Started: August 31, 1972
Date Finished: August 31, 1972
Format: Total of best lifts in military press, snatch, and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight.
Gold: | Yordan Bikov |
Silver: | Mohamed Kheir Tarabulsi |
Bronze: | Anselmo Silvino |
This class was considered wide open with no clear favorite. Soviet lifter [Viktor Kanygin] had won the 1971 World Championships and took the lead after the press with 165.0 kg, but he then failed on all three snatch attempts and was out of the competition. The leaders after the snatch were Bulgarian [Yordan Bikov] and Lebanonâs [Mohamed Kheif Trabulsi], who both lifted 160.0 kg in the press and 140.0 kg in the snatch. Both were little known, although Bikov had won the clean & jerk at the 1971 Worlds, and Trabulsi had won a bronze in the snatch at the 1970 Worlds. When Bikov jerked 185.0 kg, the gold medal was his, with Trabulsi taking silver, just ahead of Italian [Anselmo Silvino], who had also been overall bronze medalist at the 1971 World Championships. Through 2012, Trabulsiâs medal in 1972 is the only Olympic medal won by a Lebanese lifter.
Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | K | |
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1 | Yordan Bikov | 19 | Bulgaria | BUL | Gold | 485.0 | WR |
2 | Mohamed Kheir Tarabulsi | 21 | Lebanon | LIB | Silver | 472.5 | |
3 | Anselmo Silvino | 26 | Italy | ITA | Bronze | 470.0 | |
4 | Ondrej Hekel | 28 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 462.5 | ||
5 | Franklin Zielecke | 26 | East Germany | GDR | 460.0 | ||
6 | Gábor Szarvas | 28 | Hungary | HUN | 460.0 | ||
7 | András Stark | 22 | Hungary | HUN | 460.0 | ||
8 | Russ Knipp | 30 | United States | USA | 457.5 | ||
9 | Fred Lowe | 24 | United States | USA | 457.5 | ||
10T | Salvatore Laudani | 24 | Italy | ITA | 440.0 | ||
10T | Tore Bjørnsen | 28 | Norway | NOR | 440.0 | ||
12 | Panagiotis Spyrou | 25 | Greece | GRE | 430.0 | ||
13 | Arvo Ala-Pöntiö | 29 | Finland | FIN | 427.5 | ||
14 | Erling Johansen | 27 | Denmark | DEN | 425.0 | ||
15 | Aimé Terme | 26 | France | FRA | 425.0 | ||
16 | Ä°smail Bayram | 18 | Turkey | TUR | 412.5 | ||
17 | Tony Ebert | 25 | New Zealand | NZL | 410.0 | ||
18 | Natsagiin Ser-Od | 31 | Mongolia | MGL | 400.0 | ||
19 | Mohammad Malik Arshad | 24 | Pakistan | PAK | 372.5 | ||
AC | Keith Adams | 22 | Canada | CAN | [137.5] | ||
AC | Leopold Pichler | 30 | Austria | AUT | [145.0] | ||
AC | Vladimir Kanygin | 23 | Soviet Union | URS | [165.0] | ||
AC | Uwe Kliche | 34 | West Germany | FRG | [267.5] | ||
AC | Alfonso RodrÃguez | 23 | Puerto Rico | PUR | DNF | ||
AC | Yossef Romano | 31 | Israel | ISR | DNF | ||
AC | Werner Dittrich | 35 | East Germany | GDR | DNF |