Men Heavyweight 110kg Weightlifting Olympic Games Moskva (URS) 1980 - 29th July, Gold Medal: Leonid Taranenko, Soviet Union
Venue: Izamiolovo Palace of Sports, Moskva.
Final RankingTotalSnatchCl.&Jrkage
1. Leonid TaranenkoURSURS422.5kg WR182.5240.0 WR24
2. Valentin KhristovBULBUL405.0kg185.0 OR220.024
3. György SzalaiHUNHUN390.0kg172.5217.529
4. Leif NilssonSWESWE380.0kg167.5212.527
5. Vinzenz HörtnaglAUTAUT372.5kg170.0202.532
6. Ştefan TaşnadiROUROU360.0kg165.0195.027
7. Don MitchellAUSAUS352.5kg162.5190.025
8. Dimitrios ZarzavatsidisGREGRE347.5kg155.0192.524
9. Viktor SirkiäFINFIN342.5kg150.0192.531
10.Andrzej DrzewieckiGBRGBR320.0kg140.0180.034
11.Ali Abdul Kader ManeerIRQIRQ300.0kg135.0165.0
12.Mario RodríguezDOMDOM287.5kg125.0162.5
-. Pavel KhekTCHTCHNMNMDNS22
This class had been held at the Olympics since 1972 but was somewhat different in 1980, with the addition of the heavyweight 100 kg class.
The favorites were Leonid Taranenko (URS) and Valentin Khristov (BUL). At Montreal in 1976, Khristov had seemingly won the gold medal until he failed a doping test after the competition and was disqualified.
He took the lead in Moskva with a snatch of 185.0 kg, leading Taranenko by 2.5 kg, but Taranenko stunned with a world record clean & jerk of 240.0 kg, 20.0 kg more than Khristov, and won the gold medal with world record total of 422.5 kg as Khristov hung on for silver. Taranenko would return to the Olympics in 1992 as a super-heavyweight and won a silver medal.
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Men Featherweight under 60kg
Men Lightweight under 67.5kg
Men Middleweight under 75kg
Men Light Heavyweight under 82.5kg
Men Middle Heavyweight under 90kg
Men Heavyweight under 100kg
Men Heavyweight under 110kg
Men Super Heavyweight Over 110kg
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