Summer Olympics : Weightlifting in 1972

     MORE YEARS => 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | WEIGHTLIFTING BY YEAR

 MEDAL COUNTS:

    
COUNTRY
TOTAL
 GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE


Soviet UnionSoviet Union
5
3
1
1



West GermanyWest Germany
1
0
1
0



East GermanyEast Germany
2
0
0
2



HungaryHungary
5
1
1
3



IranIran
1
0
1
0



ItalyItaly
1
0
0
1



LebanonLebanon
1
0
1
0



NorwayNorway
1
1
0
0



PolandPoland
3
1
1
1



SwedenSweden
1
0
0
1



BulgariaBulgaria
6
3
3
0






 MEDAL WINNERS:

                                 GOLD                              SILVER                            BRONZE                            
Men's Bantamweight(56kg)         Imre Foldi         HUN 377.5 kg | Mohammed Nassiri   IRI 370.0 kg | Gennadi Chetin     URS 367.5 kg
Men's Featherweight(60kg)        Norair Nurikyan    BUL 402.5 kg | Dito Shanidze      URS 400.0 kg | Janos Benedek      HUN 390.0 kg
Men's Middleweight(75kg)         Yordan Bikov       BUL 485.0 kg | Mohamed Traboulsi  LBN 472.5 kg | Anselmo Silvino    ITA 470.0 kg
Men's Light-Heavyweight(82.5kg)  Leif Jenssen       NOR 507.5 kg | Norbert Ozimek     POL 497.5 kg | Gyorgy Horvath     HUN 495.0 kg
Men's Middle-Heavyweight(90kg)   Andon Nikolov      BUL 525.0 kg | Atanas Shopov      BUL 517.5 kg | Hans Bettembourg   SWE 512.5 kg
Men's Heavyweight(110kg)         Jaan Talts         URS 580.0 kg | Aleksandr Kraichev BUL 562.5 kg | Stefan Grutzner    GDR 555.0 kg
Men's Super-Heavyweight(+110 kg) Vasiliy Alekseyev  URS 640.0 kg | Rudolf Mang        FRG 610.0 kg | Gerd Bonk          GDR 572.5 kg
Men's Flyweight (52kg)           Zygmunt Smalcerz   POL 337.5 kg | Lajos Szucs        HUN 330.0 kg | Sandor Holczreiter HUN 327.5 kg
Men's Lightweight (67.5 kg)      Mukharby Kirzhinov URS 460.0 kg | Mladen Kutchev     BUL 450.0 kg | Zbigniew Kaczmarek POL 437.5 kg