Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics

{{Infobox Olympic event

| event = Weightlifting

| games = 1976 Summer

| image = Weightlifting pictogram.svg

| image_size = 100px

| venue = St. Michel Arena

| dates = 18–27 July 1976

| competitors = 173

| nations = 46

| prev = 1972

| next = 1980

}}

The weightlifting competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal consisted of nine weight classes, all for men only. The clean and press was dropped from the included lifts after the 1972 games in Munich, due to disagreement over proper form. The Games of 1976 were the first Olympics to start testing for anabolic steroids, although athletes were tested only during the competition, thus leaving them free to use performance-enhancing drugs in the years prior.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/cndy/2004-09/01/content_370597.htm|title=Doping cases at Summer Games since 1968|website=www.chinadaily.com.cn|access-date=30 June 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1976/WLT/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417052333/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1976/WLT/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Weightlifting at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |access-date=9 January 2020}}

Medal summary

52 kg
{{DetailsLink|Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 52 kg}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Aleksandr Voronin|URS|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|György Kőszegi|HUN|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Mohammad Nassiri|IRI|1976 Summer}}

56 kg
{{DetailsLink|Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 56 kg}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Norair Nurikyan|BUL|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Grzegorz Cziura|POL|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Kenkichi Ando|JPN|1976 Summer}}

60 kg
{{DetailsLink|Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 60 kg}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Nikolay Kolesnikov|URS|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Georghi Todorov|BUL|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Kazumasa Hirai|JPN|1976 Summer}}

67.5 kg
{{DetailsLink|Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 67.5 kg}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Pyotr Korol|URS|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Daniel Senet|FRA|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Kazimierz Czarnecki|POL|1976 Summer}}

75 kg
{{DetailsLink|Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 75 kg}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Yordan Mitkov|BUL|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Vardan Militosyan|URS|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Peter Wenzel|GDR|1976 Summer}}

82.5 kg
{{DetailsLink|Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 82.5 kg}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Valery Shary|URS|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Trendafil Stoitchev|BUL|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Peter Baczako|HUN|1976 Summer}}

90 kg
{{DetailsLink|Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 90 kg}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|David Rigert|URS|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Lee James|USA|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Atanas Shopov|BUL|1976 Summer}}

110 kg''
{{DetailsLink|Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 kg}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Yury Zaitsev|URS|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Krastiu Semerdzhiev|BUL|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Tadeusz Rutkowski|POL|1976 Summer}}

+110 kg
{{DetailsLink|Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's +110 kg}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Vasily Alekseyev|URS|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Gerd Bonk|GDR|1976 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Helmut Losch|GDR|1976 Summer}}

Zbigniew Kaczmarek of Poland originally won the 67.5 kg event, Valentin Khristov of Bulgaria originally won the 110 kg event, and Blagoy Blagoev of Bulgaria originally won silver in the 82.5 kg event, but they were disqualified and stripped of their medals after they tested positive for anabolic steroids.

Medal table

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template = flagIOCteam

| event = 1976 Summer

| team =

| gold_URS = 7 | silver_URS = 1 | bronze_URS = 0

| gold_BUL = 2 | silver_BUL = 3 | bronze_BUL = 1

| gold_GDR = 0 | silver_GDR = 1 | bronze_GDR = 2

| gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 1 | bronze_POL = 2

| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 1 | bronze_HUN = 1

| gold_FRA = 0 | silver_FRA = 1 | bronze_FRA = 0

| gold_USA = 0 | silver_USA = 1 | bronze_USA = 0

| gold_JPN = 0 | silver_JPN = 0 | bronze_JPN = 2

| gold_IRI = 0 | silver_IRI = 0 | bronze_IRI = 1

}}

References

Sources

{{cite web | title=Olympic Medal Winners | publisher=International Olympic Committee |url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp | access-date=21 December 2006 }}

Category:Events at the 1976 Summer Olympics

1976

Category:1976 in weightlifting