Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of nine weight classes, all for men only. Two new weight classes were introduced at these Games (flyweight and super heavyweight), marking the first changes to the Olympic program since 1952. This was the last year that the Clean and press was included as one of the lifts.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Zygmunt Smalcerz (POL)	Lajos Szűcs (HUN)	Sándor Holczreiter (HUN)
56 kg	Imre Földi (HUN)	Mohammad Nassiri (IRI)	Gennadi Chetin (URS)
60 kg	Norair Nurikyan (BUL)	Dito Shanidze (URS)	János Benedek (HUN)
67.5 kg	Mukharby Kirzhinov (URS)	Mladen Kutchev (BUL)	Zbigniew Kaczmarek (POL)
75 kg	Yordan Bikov (BUL)	Mohamed Traboulsi (LIB)	Anselmo Silvino (ITA)
82.5 kg	Leif Jenssen (NOR)	Norbert Ozimek (POL)	György Horvath (HUN)
90 kg	Andon Nikolov (BUL)	Atanas Shopov (BUL)	Hans Bettembourg (SWE)
110 kg	Jaan Talts (URS)	Aleksandr Kraichev (BUL)	Stefan Grützner (GDR)
+110 kg	Vasiliy Alekseyev (URS)	Rudolf Mang (FRG)	Gerd Bonk (GDR)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bulgaria (BUL)	3	3	0	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	1	5
3	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	3	5
4	Poland (POL)	1	1	1	3
5	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
6	Iran (IRI)	0	1	0	1
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
9	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	2	2
10	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Total	9	9	9	27

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-21. 

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