Wednesday, October 11 Olympic history -- Weightlifting
	52kg (54 kg in 1996) (discontinued) Olympics Medal Athlete Country Weight (kg) Atlanta 1996 Gold Silver Bronze Halil Mutlu Zhang Xiangsen Sevdalin Minchev Turkey China Bulgaria 287.5 280.0 277.5 Barcelona 1992 Gold Silver Bronze Ivan Ivanov Lin Qisheng Traian Ciharean Bulgaria China Romania 265.0 262.5 252.5 Seoul 1988 Gold Silver Bronze Sevdalin Marinov Byung-Kwan Chun Zhuoqiang He Bulgaria South Korea China 270.0 260.0 257.5 Los Angeles 1984 Gold Silver Bronze Guoqiang Zeng Peishun Zhou Kazushito Manabe China China Japan 235.0 235.0 232.5 Moscow 1980 Gold Silver Bronze Kanybek Osmonaliev Bong Chol Ho Gyong Si Han Soviet Union North Korea North Korea 245.0 245.0 245.0 Montreal 1976 Gold Silver Bronze Alexander Voronin Gyorgy Koszegi Mohammad Nassiri Soviet Union Hungary Iran 242.5 237.5 235.0 Munich 1972 Gold Silver Bronze Zygmunt Smalcerz Lajos Szucs Sandor Holczreiter Poland Hungary Hungary 337.5 330.0 327.5 56 kg (59 kg in 1996) Olympics Medal Athlete Country Weight (kg) Atlanta 1996 Gold Silver Bronze Tang Ningsheng Leonidas Sabanis Nikolay Pechalov China Greece Bulgaria 307.5 305.0 302.5 Barcelona 1992 Gold Silver Bronze Chun Byung-Kwan Liu Shoubin Luo Jianming France Korea Germany 287.5 277.5 277.5 Seoul 1988 Gold Silver Bronze Oxen Mirzoian Yingqiang He Shoubin Liu Soviet Union China China 292.5 287.5 267.5 Los Angeles 1984 Gold Silver Bronze Shude Wu Runming Lai Masahiro Kotaka China China Japan 267.5 265.0 252.5 Moscow 1980 Gold Silver Bronze Daniel Nunez Yurik Sarkisian Tadeusz Dembonczyk Cuba Soviet Union Poland 275.0 270.0 265.0 Montreal 1976 Gold Silver Bronze Norair Nourikian Grzegorz Cziura Kenkichi Ando Cuba Soviet Union Poland 262.5 252.5 250.0 Munich 1972 Gold Silver Bronze Imre Foldi Mohammad Nassiri Gennady Chetin Hungary Iran Soviet Union 377.5 370.0 367.5 Mexico City 1968 Gold Silver Bronze Mohammad Nassiri Imre Foldi Henryk Trebicki Iran Hungary Poland 367.5 367.5 357.5 Tokyo 1964 Gold Silver Bronze Aleksei Vakhonin Imre Foldi Shiro Ichinoseki Soviet Union Hungary Japan 357.5 355.0 347.5 Rome 1960 Gold Silver Bronze Charles Vinci Yoshinobu Miyake Esmail Elm Khan United States Japan Iran 345.0 337.5 330.0 Melbourne 1956 Gold Silver Bronze Charles Vinci Vladimir Stogov Mahmoud Namdjou United States Soviet Union Iran 342.5 337.5 332.5 Helsinki 1952 Gold Silver Bronze Ivan Udodov Mahmoud Namdjou Ali Mirzai Soviet Union Iran Iran 315.0 307.5 300.0 London 1948 Gold Silver Bronze Joseph De Pietro Julian Creus Richard Tom United States Great Britain United States 307.5 297.5 295.0 62 kg (64 kg in 1996) Olympics Medal Athlete Country Weight (kg) Atlanta 1996 Gold Silver Bronze Naim Suleymanoglu Valerios Leonidis Xiao Jiangang Turkey Greece China 335.0 332.5 322.5 Barcelona 1992 Gold Silver Bronze Naim Suleymanoglu Nikolai Peshalov He Yingqiang Turkey Bulgaria China 320.0 305.0 295.0 Seoul 1988 Gold Silver Bronze Naim Suleymanoglu Stefan Topourov Huenming Ye Turkey Bulgaria China 342.5 312.5 287.5 Los Angeles 1984 Gold Silver Bronze Weiqiang Chen Gelu Radu Wen-Yee Tsai China Romania Chinese-Taipei 282.5 280.0 272.5 Moscow 1980 Gold Silver Bronze Viktor Mazin Stefan Dimitrov Marek Seweryn Soviet Union Bulgaria Poland 290.0 287.5 282.5 Montreal 1976 Gold Silver Bronze Nikolai Kolesnikov Georgi Todorov Kazumasu Hirai Soviet Union Bulgaria Japan 285.0 280.0 275.0 Munich 1972 Gold Silver Bronze Norair Nurikjan Dito Shanidze Janos Benedek Bulgaria Soviet Union Hungary 402.5 400.0 390.0 Mexico City 1968 Gold Silver Bronze Yoshinobu Miyake Dito Shanidze Yoshiyuki Mijake Japan Soviet Union Japan 392.5 387.5 385.0 Tokyo 1964 Gold Silver Bronze Yashinobu Miyake Isaac Berger Mieczyslaw Nowak Japan United States Poland 397.5 382.5 377.5 Rome 1960 Gold Silver Bronze Yevgeny Minayev Isaac Berger S. Mannironi Soviet Union United States Italy 372.5 362.5 352.5 Melbourne 1956 Gold Silver Bronze Isaac Berger Yevgeny Minayev Marian Zielinski United States Soviet Union Poland 352.5 342.5 335.0 Helsinki 1952 Gold Silver Bronze Rafael Chimishkyan Nikolai Saksonov Rodney Wilkes Soviet Union Soviet Union T'dad and Tobago 337.5 332.5 322.5 London 1948 Gold Silver Bronze Mahmoud Fayad Rodney Wilkes Jaffar Salmasi Egypt T'dad and Tobago Iran 332.5 317.5 312.5 Berlin 1936 Gold Silver Bronze Anthony Terlazzo Saleh Soliman Ibrahim Shams United States Egypt Egypt 312.5 305.0 300.0 Los Angeles 1932 Gold Silver Bronze Raymond Suvigny Hans Wolpert Anthony Terlazzo France Germany United States 287.5 282.5 280.0 Amsterdam 1928 Gold Silver Bronze Franz Andrysek Pierino Gabetti Hans Wolpert Austria Italy Germany 287.5 282.5 282.5 Paris 1924 Gold Silver Bronze Pierino Gabetti Andreas Stadler Artur Reinmann Italy Austria Switzerland 402.5 385.0 382.5 Antwerp 1920 Gold Silver Bronze Frans De Haes Alfred Schmidt Eugene Ryther Belgium Estonia Switzerland 220.0 212.5 210.0 69 kg (70 kg in 1996) Olympics Medal Athlete Country Weight (kg) Atlanta 1996 Gold Silver Bronze Zhan Xugang Kim Myong-nam Attila Feri China North Korea Hungary 357.5 345.0 340.0 Barcelona 1992 Gold Silver Bronze Israel Militossian Yoto Yotov Andreas Behm Armenia Bulgaria Germany 337.5 327.5 320.0 Seoul 1988 Gold Silver Bronze Joachim Kunz Israel Militossian Jinhe Li East Germany Soviet Union China 340.0 337.5 325.0 Los Angeles 1984 Gold Silver Bronze Yao Jingyuan Andrei Socaci Jouni Gronman China Romania Finland 320.0 312.5 312.5 Moscow 1980 Gold Silver Bronze Yanko Rusev Joachim Kunz Mincho Pashev Bulgaria East Germany Bulgaria 342.5 335.0 325.0 Montreal 1976 Gold Silver Bronze Zbigniew Kaczmarek Piotr Korol Daniel Senet Poland Soviet Union France 307.5 305.0 300.0 Munich 1972 Gold Silver Bronze Muckarbi Kirzhinov Mladen Kutschew Zbigniew Kaczmarek Soviet Union Bulgaria Poland 460.0 450.0 437.5 Mexico City 1968 Gold Silver Bronze W. Baszanowski Parviz Jalayer Marian Zielinski Poland Iran Poland 437.5 422.5 420.0 Tokyo 1964 Gold Silver Bronze W. Baszanowski Vladimir Kaplunov Marian Zielinski Poland Soviet Union Poland 432.5 432.5 420.0 Rome 1960 Gold Silver Bronze Viktor Buschuyev Howe-Liang Tan Abdul Wahid Aziz Soviet Union Singapore Iraq 397.5 380.0 380.0 Melbourne 1956 Gold Silver Bronze Igor Rybak Rafael Khabutdinov Chang-hee Kim Soviet Union Soviet Union Korea 380.0 372.5 370.0 Helsinki 1952 Gold Silver Bronze Tommy Kono Yevgeny Lopatin Verne Barberis United States Soviet Union Australia 362.5 350.0 350.0 London 1948 Gold Silver Bronze Ibrahim Shams Appia Hamouda James Halliday Egypt Egypt Great Britain 360.0 360.0 340.0 Berlin 1936 Gold Silver Bronze Robert Fein Anwar Mesbah Karl Jansen Austria Egypt Germany 342.5 342.5 327.5 Los Angeles 1932 Gold Silver Bronze Rene Duverger Hans Haas Gastone Pierini France Austria Italy 325.0 307.5 302.5 Amsterdam 1928 Gold Silver Bronze Hans Haas Kurt Helbig Fernand Arnout Austria Germany France 322.5 322.5 302.5 Paris 1924 Gold Silver Bronze Edmond Decottignies Anton Zwerina Bohumil Durdis France Austria Czechoslovakia 440.0 427.5 425.0 Antwerp 1920 Gold Silver Bronze Alfred Neuland Louis Williquet Florimond Rooms Estonia Belgium Belgium 257.5 240.0 230.0 77 kg (76 kg in 1996) Olympics Medal Athlete Country Weight (kg) Atlanta 1996 Gold Silver Bronze Pablo Lara Yoto Yotov Jon Chol Cuba Bulgaria North Korea 367.5 360.0 357.5 Barcelona 1992 Gold Silver Bronze Fedor Kassapu Pablo L. Rodriguez Kim Myong Nam Moldavia Cuba North Korea 357.5 357.5 352.5 Seoul 1988 Gold Silver Bronze Borislav Guidikov Ingo Steinhoefel Alexander Varbanov Bulgaria East Germany Bulgaria 370.0 360.0 357.5 Los Angeles 1984 Gold Silver Bronze K.-H. Radschinsky Jacques Demers Dragomir Cioroslan West Germany Canada Romania 340.0 335.0 332.5 Moscow 1980 Gold Silver Bronze Assen Zlatev Aleksandr Pervy Nedelcho Kolev Bulgaria Soviet Union Bulgaria 360.0 357.5 345.0 Montreal 1976 Gold Silver Bronze Yordan Mitkov Vartan Militosyan Peter Wenzel Bulgaria Soviet Union East Germany 335.0 330.0 327.5 Munich 1972 Gold Silver Bronze Yordan Bikow Mohamed Trabulski Anselmo Silvino Bulgaria Lebanon Italy 485.0 472.5 470.0 Mexico City 1968 Gold Silver Bronze Viktor Kurentsov Masashi Ouchi Karoly Bakos Soviet Union Japan Hungary 475.0 455.0 440.0 Tokyo 1964 Gold Silver Bronze Hans Zdrazila Viktor Kurentsov Marashi Ouchi Czechoslovakia Soviet Union Japan 445.0 440.0 437.5 Rome 1960 Gold Silver Bronze Aleksandr Kurynov Tommy Kono Gyozo Veres Soviet Union United States Hungary 437.5 427.5 405.0 Melbourne 1956 Gold Silver Bronze F. Bogdanovsky Peter George Ermanno Pignatti Soviet Union United States Italy 420.0 412.5 382.5 Helsinki 1952 Gold Silver Bronze Peter George Gerard Gratton Sung-jip Kim United States Canada Korea 400.0 390.0 380.0 London 1948 Gold Silver Bronze Frank Spellman Peter George Sung-jip Kim United States United States Korea 390.0 382.5 380.0 Berlin 1936 Gold Silver Bronze Khadr Sayed Rudolf Ismayr Adolf Wagner Egypt Germany Germany 387.5 352.5 352.5 Los Angeles 1932 Gold Silver Bronze Rudolf Ismayr Carlo Galimberti Karl Hipfinger Germany Italy Austria 345.0 340.0 337.5 Amsterdam 1928 Gold Silver Bronze Roger Francois Carlo Galimberti August Scheffer France Italy Netherlands 335.0 332.5 327.5 Paris 1924 Gold Silver Bronze Carlo Galimberti Joan Kikkas Alfred Neuland Italy Estonia Estonia 492.5 450.0 450.0 Antwerp 1920 Gold Silver Bronze Henri Gance Pietro Bianchi Albert Pettersson France Italy Sweden 245.0 237.5 237.5 85 kg (83 kg in 1996) Olympics Medal Athlete Country Weight (kg) Atlanta 1996 Gold Silver Bronze Pyrros Dimas Anderzej Cofalik Greece Germany Poland 392.5 382.5 372.5 Barcelona 1992 Gold Silver Bronze Pyrros Dimas Krzysztof Siemion None Greece Poland None 370.0 370.0 None Seoul 1988 Gold Silver Bronze Israil Arsamakov Istvan Messzi Hyung-Kun Lee Soviet Union Hungary South Korea 377.5 370.0 367.5 Los Angeles 1984 Gold Silver Bronze Petre Decheru Robert Kabbas Ryoji Isaoka Romania Australia Japan 355.0 342.5 340.0 Moscow 1980 Gold Silver Bronze Yurik Vardanjan Blagoi Blagoev Dusan Poliacik Soviet Union Bulgaria Czechoslovakia 400.0 372.5 367.5 Montreal 1976 Gold Silver Bronze Valeri Shary Blagoi Blagoev Trendafil Stoichev Soviet Union Bulgaria Bulgaria 365.0 362.5 360.0 Munich 1972 Gold Silver Bronze Leif Jenssen Norbert Ozimek Gyorgy Horvath Norway Poland Hungary 507.5 497.5 495.0 Mexico City 1968 Gold Silver Bronze Boris Selitsky Vladimir Belyayev Norbert Ozimek Soviet Union Soviet Union Poland 485.0 485.0 472.5 Tokyo 1964 Gold Silver Bronze Rudolf Plukfelder Geza Toth Gyozo Veres Soviet Union Hungary Hungary 475.0 467.5 467.5 Rome 1960 Gold Silver Bronze Ireneusz Palinski James George Jan Bochenek Poland United States Poland 442.5 430.0 420.0 Melbourne 1956 Gold Silver Bronze Tommy Kono Vassili Stepanov James George United States Soviet Union United States 447.5 427.5 417.5 Helsinki 1952 Gold Silver Bronze Trofim Lomakin Stanley Stanczyk Arkadi Vorobyov Soviet Union United States Soviet Union 417.5 415.0 407.5 London 1948 Gold Silver Bronze Stanley Stanczyk Harold Sakata Gosta Magnusson United States United States Sweden 417.5 380.0 375.5 Berlin 1936 Gold Silver Bronze Louis Hostin Eugen Deutsch Ibrahim Wasif France Germany Egypt 372.5 365.0 360.0 Los Angeles 1932 Gold Silver Bronze Louis Hostin Svend Olsen Henry Duey France Denmark United States 365.0 360.0 330.0 Amsterdam 1928 Gold Silver Bronze El Sayed Nosseir Louis Hostin Johannes Verheijen Egypt France Netherlands 355.0 352.5 337.5 Paris 1924 Gold Silver Bronze Charles Rigoulot Fritz Hunenberger Leopold Friedrich France Switzerland Austria 502.5 490.0 490.0 Antwerp 1920 Gold Silver Bronze Ernest Cadine Fritz Hunenberger Erik Pettersson France Switzerland Sweden 290.0 275.0 272.5 94 kg (91 kg in 1996) Olympics Medal Athlete Country Weight (kg) Atlanta 1996 Gold Silver Bronze Aleksey Petrov Leonidas Kokas Oliver Caruso Russia Greece Germany 402.5 390.0 390.0 Barcelona 1992 Gold Silver Bronze Kakhi Kakhiachvili Sergei Syrtsov Sergiusz Wolczaniecki Russia Uzbekistan Poland 412.5 412.5 392.5 Seoul 1988 Gold Silver Bronze Anatoli Khrapatyi Nail Moukhamediarov Slawomir Zawada Soviet Union Soviet Union Poland 412.5 400.0 400.0 Los Angeles 1984 Gold Silver Bronze Nicu Vlad Dumitru Petre David Mercer Romania Romania Great Britain 392.5 360.0 352.5 Moscow 1980 Gold Silver Bronze Peter Baczaka Roumen Aleksandrov Frank Mantek Hungary Bulgaria East Germany 377.5 375.0 370.0 Montreal 1976 Gold Silver Bronze David Rigert Lee James Atanas Shopov Soviet Union United States Bulgaria 382.5 362.5 360.0 Munich 1972 Gold Silver Bronze Andon Nikolov Atanas Schopov Hans Bettembourg Bulgaria Bulgaria Sweden 525.0 517.5 512.5 Mexico City 1968 Gold Silver Bronze Kaarlo Kangasniemi Jan Talts Marek Golab Finland Soviet Union Poland 517.5 507.5 495.0 Tokyo 1964 Gold Silver Bronze Vladimir Golovanov Louis Martin Ireneusz Palinski Soviet Union Great Britain Poland 487.5 475.0 467.5 Rome 1960 Gold Silver Bronze Arkadi Vorobyov Trofim Lomakin Louis Martin Soviet Union Soviet Union Great Britain 472.5 457.5 445.0 Melbourne 1956 Gold Silver Bronze Arkadi Vorobyov David Sheppard Jean Debuf Soviet Union United States France 462.5 442.5 425.0 Helsinki 1952 Gold Silver Bronze Norbert Schemansky Grigori Novak Lennox Kilgour United States Soviet Union T'dad and Tobago 445.0 410.0 402.5 105 kg (108 kg in 1996) Olympics Medal Athlete Country Weight (kg) Atlanta 1996 Gold Silver Bronze Timur Taimazov Sergey Syrtsov Nicu Vlad Ukraine Russia Romania 430.0 420.0 420.0 Barcelona 1992 Gold Silver Bronze Ronny Weller Artour Akoev Stefan Botev Germany Russia Bulgaria 432.5 430.0 417.5 Seoul 1988 Gold Silver Bronze Yuri Zakharevitch Jozsef Jacso Ronny Weller Soviet Union Hungary East Germany 455.0 427.5 425.0 Los Angeles 1984 Gold Silver Bronze Norberto Oberburger Stefan Tasnadi Guy Carlton Italy Romania United States 390.0 380.0 377.5 Moscow 1980 Gold Silver Bronze Leonid Taranenko Valentin Hristov Gyorgy Szalai Soviet Union Bulgaria Hungary 422.5 405.5 390.0 Montreal 1976 Gold Silver Bronze Valentin Khristov Yuri Zaitsev Krastic Sermedjiev Bulgaria Soviet Union Bulgaria 400.0 385.0 385.0 Munich 1972 Gold Silver Bronze Jan Talts Aleksandr Kraichev Stefan Grutzner Soviet Union Bulgaria East Germany 580.0 562.5 555.0 Mexico City 1968 Gold Silver Bronze Leonid Schabotinski Serge Reding Joe Dube Soviet Union Belgium United States 572.5 555.0 555.0 Tokyo 1964 Gold Silver Bronze Leonid Schabotinski Yuri Vlassov Norbert Schemansky Soviet Union Soviet Union United States 572.5 570.0 537.5 Rome 1960 Gold Silver Bronze Yuri Vlassov James Bradford Norbert Schemansky Soviet Union United States United States 537.5 512.5 500.0 Melbourne 1956 Gold Silver Bronze Paul Anderson Humberto Selvetti Alberto Pigaiani United States Argentina Italy 500.0 500.0 452.5 Helsinki 1952 Gold Silver Bronze John Davis James Bradford Humberto Selvetti United States United States Argentina 460.0 437.5 432.5 London 1948 Gold Silver Bronze John Davis Norbert Schemansky Abraham Charite United States United States Netherlands 452.5 425.0 412.5 Berlin 1936 Gold Silver Bronze Josef Manger Vaclav Psenicka Arnold Luhaar Germany Czechoslovakia Estonia 410.0 402.5 400.0 Los Angeles 1932 Gold Silver Bronze Jaroslav Skobla Vaclav Psenicka Josef Strassberger Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Germany 380.0 377.5 377.5 Amsterdam 1928 Gold Silver Bronze Josef Strassberger Arnold Luhaar Jaroslav Skobla Germany Estonia Czechoslovakia 372.5 360.0 357.5 Paris 1924 Gold Silver Bronze Giuseppe Tonani Franz Aigner Harald Tammer Italy Austria Estonia 517.5 515.0 497.5 Antwerp 1920 Gold Silver Bronze Filippo Bottino Joseph Alzin Louis Bernot Italy Luxembourg France 270.0 255.0 250.0 St. Louis 1904 One-hand lift Gold Silver Bronze Oscar Paul Osthoff Frederick Winters Frank Kungler United States United States United States 48 45 10 St. Louis 1904 Two-hand lift Gold Silver Bronze Perikles Kakousis Oscar Paul Osthoff Frank Kungler Greece United States United States 111.70 84.37 79.61 Athens 1896 One-hand lift Gold Silver Bronze Launceston Elliott Viggo Jensen A. Nikolopoulos Great Britain Denmark Greece 71.0 57.2 57.2 Athens 1896 Two-hand lift Gold Silver Bronze Viggo Jensen Launceston Elliott Sotirios Versis Denmark Great Britain Greece 111.5 111.5 100.0 More than 105 kg Olympics Medal Athlete Country Weight (kg) Atlanta 1996 Gold Silver Bronze Andrei Chemerkin Ronny Weller Stefan Botev Russia Germany Australia 457.5 455.0 450.0 Barcelona 1992 Gold Silver Bronze Alexandre Kourlovitch Leonid Taranenko Manfred Nerlinger Belarus Belarus Germany 450.0 425.0 412.5 Seoul 1988 Gold Silver Bronze Alexandre Kourlovitch Manfred Nerlinger Martin Zawieja Soviet Union West Germany West Germany 462.5 430.0 407.5 Los Angeles 1984 Gold Silver Bronze Dean Lukin Mario Martinez Manfred Nerlinger Australia United States West Germany 412.5 410.0 397.5 Moscow 1980 Gold Silver Bronze Sultan Rakhmanov Jurgen Heuser Tadeusz Rutkowski Soviet Union East Germany Poland 440.0 410.0 407.5 Montreal 1976 Gold Silver Bronze Vassili Alekseyev Gerd Bonk Helmut Losch Soviet Union East Germany East Germany 440.0 405.0 387.5 Munich 1972 Gold Silver Bronze Vassili Alekseyev Rudolf Mang Gerd Bonk Soviet Union West Germany East Germany 630.0 610.0 572.5