Men Bantamweight 56kg Weightlifting Olympic Games Moskva (URS) 1980 - 21th July, Gol Medal: Daniel Núñez, Cuba
Venue: Izamiolovo Palace of Sports, Moskva.
Final Ranking
Total
Snatch
Cl.&Jrk
age
1. Daniel Núñez
CUB
275.0kg WR
125.0 WR
150.0
21
2. Yuri Sarkisyan
URS
270.0kg
112.5
157.5 WR
18
3. Tadeusz Dembończyk
POL
265.0kg
120.0
145.0
24
4. Andreas Letz
GDR
265.0kg
115.0
150.0
18
5. Yang Eui-Yong
PRK
262.5kg
112.5
137.5
28
6. Imre Stefanovics
HUN
260.0kg
115.0
145.0
25
7. Gheorghe Maftei
ROU
247.5kg
105.0
142.5
25
8. Petre Pavel
ROU
245.0kg
105.0
140.0
22
9. Choe Jong-Sop
PRK
242.5kg
105.0
150.0
20
10.Ioannis Sidiropoulos
GRE
242.5kg
102.5
140.0
23
11.Ahmed Tarbi
ALG
240.0kg
105.0
135.0
26
12.Abdul Karim Gizar
IRQ
240.0kg
105.0
135.0
13.Arvo Ojalehto
FIN
237.5kg
105.0
132.5
23
14.Johnny Helsing
SWE
232.5kg
100.0
132.5
24
15.Pertti Torikka
SWE
230.0kg
100.0
130.0
25
16.Lorry Orsini
AUS
220.0kg
95.0
125.0
20
17.Ali Shalabi
LBA
215.0kg
95.0
120.0
18.Ashok Kumar Karki
NEP
145.0kg
65.0
80.0
24
-. György Kőszegi
HUN
110.0kg
110.0
NM
29
-. Bruno Lebrun
FRA
105.0kg
105.0
NM
23
-. Tamil Selwan Muniswamy
IND
100.0kg
100.0
NM
25
None of the medalists from 1976 had returned but the 1978 World Champion, Daniel Nunez (CUB), was in Moskva. He put the gold medal away with a world record snatch of 125.0 kg.
Although Soviet Armenian Yuri Sarkisyan cleaned & jerked a world record 157.5 kg to take the silver medal.
The bronze appeared to be a tie between Tadeusz Dembocczyk (POL) and Andreas Letz (GDR), who both lifted 265.0 kg and both had weighed 55.6 kg at the weigh-in.
They were re-weighed after the competition, with Dembovczyk getting the bronze medal, another example, as in the flyweight class, of a medal awarded because one guy sweated more than the other.