Men Heavyweight 100kg Weightlifting Olympic Games Moskva (URS) 1980 - 28th July, Gold Medal:
Venue: Izamiolovo Palace of Sports, Moskva.
Final Ranking
Total
Snatch
Cl.&Jrk
age
1. Ota Zaremba
TCH
395.0kg OR
180.0 OR
215.0
23
2. Igor Nikitin
URS
392.5kg
177.5
215.0
28
3. Alberto Blanco
CUB
385.0kg
172.5
212.5
30
4. Michael Hennig
GDR
382.5kg
165.0
217.5 OR
25
5. János Sólyomvári
HUN
380.0kg
175.0
205.0
26
6. Manfred Funke
GDR
377.5kg
170.0
207.5
24
7. Anton Baraniak
TCH
375.0kg
165.0
210.0
29
8. László Varga
HUN
367.5kg
172.5
195.0
27
9. Michael Persson
SWE
360.0kg
160.0
200.0
21
10.Pekka Niemi
FIN
347.5kg
155.0
192.5
27
11.John Burns
GBR
337.5kg
157.5
180.0
31
12.Birgir Borgþórsson
ISL
330.0kg
147.5
182.5
21
13.Omar Yousfi
ALG
320.0kg
140.0
180.0
24
14.Addison Dale
ZIM
225.0kg
100.0
125.0
37
-. Plamen Asparukhov
BUL
170.0kg
170.0
NM
20
-. Raef Ftouni
LEB
140.0kg
140.0
NM
-. Franz Strizik
AUT
NM
NM
DNS
26
This was the first time this class was held at the Olympics, although it had been contested at the World Championships in 1977-79.
The only medalist from those three Worlds that competed in the class at Moskva was Alberto Blanco (CUB), bronze medalist in 1979. He would also win bronze at the 1980 Olympics, trailing the gold medalist Ota Zaremba (CZE), who had won a silver medal in the snatch at the 1979 Worlds.
The silver medal went to Igor Nikitin (URS), who had also won a silver at the 1978 European Championships.