| 60 kg at the Games of the XX Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Weightlifting Hall 7, Gewichtheberhalle | |||||||||
| Dates | 29 August | |||||||||
| Competitors | 13 from 11 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics | |
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| Men | |
| 52 kg | |
| 56 kg | |
| 60 kg | |
| 67.5 kg | |
| 75 kg | |
| 82.5 kg | |
| 90 kg | |
| 110 kg | |
| +110 kg | |
Total of best lifts in military press, snatch and jerk. Ties were broken by the lightest bodyweight. [1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Body weight | Military press (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Jerk (kg) | Total (kg) | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | |||||
 | Norair Nurikyan |  | 59.70 | 122.5 | 127.5 | 127.5 OR | 112.5 | 117.5 | 117.5 | 147.5 | 157.5 | – | 157.5 WR | 402.5 =WR | ||
 | Dito Shanidze |  | 59.60 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 127.5 | 127.5 OR | 115.0 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 147.5 | 152.5 | 152.5 | 400.0 | ||
 | János Benedek |  | 59.85 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 125.0 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 145.0 | 145.0 | 390.0 | ||||
| 4 | Yoshinobu Miyake |  | 59.60 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 145.0 | 145.0 | 385.0 | |||||
| 5 | Kurt Pittner |  | 59.60 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 125.0 | 112.5 | 112.5 | 145.0 | 145.0 | 382.5 | |||||
| 6 | Rolando Chang |  | 58.90 | 112.5 | 117.5 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 107.5 | 112.5 | 115.0 | 115.0 | 137.5 | 142.5 | 142.5 | 377.5 | |
| 7 | Mieczysław Nowak |  | 59.85 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 110.0 | 110.0 | 145.0 | 145.0 | 375.0 | ||||||
| 8 | Peppino Tanti |  | 60.00 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 102.5 | 107.5 | 107.5 | 140.0 | 140.0 | 367.5 | |||||
| 9 | Ymer Pampuri |  | 59.35 | 125.0 | 127.5 | 127.5 OR | 85.0 | 90.0 | – | 90.0 | 125.0 | 125.0 | 342.5 | |||
| 10 | Chen Kue-Sen |  | 59.80 | 100.0 | 110.0 | 110.0 | 92.5 | 92.5 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 125.0 | 327.5 | ||||
| 11 | Julio Martínez |  | 59.80 | 92.5 | 92.5 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 105.0 | 127.5 | 127.5 | 325.0 | |||||
| – | Jan Wojnowski | | 59.30 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 120.0 | NVL | DNF | ||||||
| – | Kenkichi Ando | | 59.30 | NVL | DNF | |||||||||||
Key: WR = world record; =WR = equaled world record; OR = Olympic record; DNF = did not finish; NVL = no valid lift
Asen Zlatev is a former Bulgarian weightlifter. Zlatev is an Olympic champion from the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games in Russia, in the category of up to 75 kg. At the age of 11 he joined the first group of weight lifting trainees in the Vasil Levski Sports School under the leadership of Gancho Karushkov. Zlatev has won three gold medals at World Championships and five at European Championships. From World Championships he has 7 medals, and from European Championships – 8 medals. He is ranked second with the number of medals won in total and leads the ranking among Bulgarians by the number of medals won in Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships in snatch, clean and jerk and total – 22 gold, 19 silver, 4 bronze. For seven years Zlatev improved 20 world and 6 Olympic records. He is one of the three Bulgarians who has not received a “zero” in an official competition. Zlatev was awarded the Golden Kilo award for best achievement at the World Championships in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1982. He was captain of the national team for 8 years and did not lost national competition for 13 seasons. He competed in the categories up to 75 kg and up to 82.5 kg and was trained for several Olympic Games, but for various reasons he participated only in one – in Moscow, Russia. From September 1989 until the end of 1994 Zlatev competed for the German teams Limen and Chemnitz. Asen Zlatev was declared honorary citizen of Plovdiv in 2001. He was elected Athlete of the Year for Bulgaria in 1986.
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place between August 4 & August 5.
The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, were held at Olympiastadion on 2 and 3 August. The final was won by American Jesse Owens, and teammate Ralph Metcalfe repeated as silver medalist.
The flyweight division has been added as the lightest weight category for the 1972 Summer Olympics. It had been contested international since 1969. Only men competed in all the weight classes.
The favorites in the event were the same lifters that made up the first four places at the 1968 Summer Olympics. The snatch was won by Koji Miki of Japan with a lift of 112.5 kg. But in an out-of-competition attempt to break the world record, he improved his own mark from 113.5 kg to 114.0 kg. The lifter placing 12th, Soviet-born Israeli Ze'ev Friedman, would become one of the victims of the kidnapping by the Palestinian Black September group. Friedman was killed in the firefight at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base.
Total of best lifts in military press, snatch and jerk. Ties were broken by the lightest bodyweight.
In an out-of-competition attempt to break the world record in the snatch, both Aimé Terme of France and Mohamed Tarabulsi of Lebanon attempted to lift 146.5 kg to break the world record, both competitors failed the lift. Yossef Romano of Israel was one of the victims of the 5 September 1972, Munich Massacre.
Siamand Rahman was an Iranian Paralympic powerlifter. He won gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio and the 2010 Asian Para Games in Guangzhou. He is the current IPC Powerlifting World Record holder in the +107 kg category with a 310.0 kilograms (683.4 lb) bench press and also holds the junior world record with 290.0 kilograms (639.3 lb) and the Paralympic Championship Record with 310.0 kilograms (683.4 lb). Siamand died on 1 March 2020 due to cardiac arrest.
Olympic Champions in Weightlifting – Men's Featherweight | |
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