1972 Summer Olympics: And the Middleweight Winners Are…
History in Color:
August 31, 1972, Munich, Germany – Best middleweights receive their awards at the medal ceremony in the 75kg weight class at the 1972 Summer Olympics (left to right):
Mohamed Traboulsi (Lebanon, silver medal), Yordan Bikov (Bulgaria, gold medal), Anselmo Silvino (Italy, bronze medal)
At the 1972 Olympics, Yordan Bikov lifted 485kg in total and broke the 4-year old world record that was set by legendary Viktor Kurentsov on August 31, 1968. With the elimination of the press lift in 1972, this world record by Bikov happened to be an eternal world record in the total of three Olympic lifts.
Summer Olympics since 1920
Rank | Athlete | Results (kg) | |
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1 | Yordan BIKOV, Bulgaria | 160 + 140+ 185 = 485WR | |
2 | Mohamed TRABOULSI, Lebanon | 160 + 140+ 172.5 = 472.5 | |
3 | Anselmo SILVINO, Italy | 155 + 140+ 175 = 470 | |
4 | Ondrej HEKEL , Czechoslovakia | 150 + 142.5+ 170 = 462.5 | |
5 | Frank ZIELECKE, East Germany | 150 + 140+ 170 = 460 | |
6 | Gabor SZARVAS, Hungary | 150 + 135+ 175 = 460 | |
7 | Andras STARK, Hungary | 152.5 + 137.5+ 170 = 460 | |
8 | Russel KNIPP, United States | 160 + 127.5+ 170 = 457.5 | |
9 | Frederick LOWE, United States | 147.5 + 135+ 175 = 457.5 | |
10 | Tore BJORNSEN, Norway | 145 + 130+ 165 = 440 | |
11 | Salvatore LAUDANI, Italy | 155 + 120+ 160 = 440 | |
12 | Christos SPYROU, Greece | 145 + 117.5+ 167.5 = 430 | |
13 | Arvo ALA-PONTIO, Finland | 145 + 122.5+ 160 = 427.5 | |
14 | Erling JOHANSEN, Denmark | 137.5 + 127.5+ 160 = 425 | |
15 | Aime TERME, France | 127.5 + 142.5+ 155 = 425 | |
16 | Ismail BAYRAM, Turkey | 137.5 + 122.5+ 152.5 = 412.5 | |
17 | Tony EBERT , New Zealand | 137.5 + 117.5+ 155 = 410 | |
18 | Natsagiin SER-OD, Mongolia | 130 + 122.5+ 147.5 = 400 | |
19 | Mohammad Malik ARSHAD, Pakistan | 117.5 + 107.5+ 147.5 = 372.5 | |
900 | Alfonso RODRIGUEZ, Puerto Rico | 0+ 0 = 0 | |
900 | Leopold PICHLER, Austria | 145 + 0+ 0 = 0 | |
900 | Keith ADAMS, Canada | 137.5 + 0+ 0 = 0 | |
900 | Werner DITTRICH, East Germany | 0+ 0 = 0 | |
900 | Uwe KLICHE, West Germany | 145 + 0+ 0 = 0 | |
900 | Vladimir KANYGIN, Soviet Union | 165 + 0+ 0 = 0 | |
900 | Jossef ROMANO, Israel | 0+ 0 = 0 |
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