Weightlifting Super Heavyweight over 110kg Olympic Games Moskva (URS) 1980 - 30th July, Gold Medal: Sultan Rakhmanov, Soviet Union
Venue: Izamiolovo Palace of Sports, Moskva.
Final Ranking
Total
Snatch
Cl.&Jrk
age
1. Sultan Rakhmanov
URS
440.0kg OR
195.0 OR
245.0
30
2. Jürgen Heuser
GDR
410.0kg
182.5
227.5
27
3. Tadeusz Rutkowski
POL
407.5kg
180.0
227.5
29
4. Rudolf Strejček
TCH
402.5kg
182.5
220.0
29
5. Bohuslav Braum
TCH
397.5kg
180.0
217.5
24
6. Francisco Méndez
CUB
395.0kg
175.0
220.0
20
7. Robert Skolimowski
POL
385.0kg
175.0
210.0
23
8. Talal Najjar
SYR
362.5kg
157.5
205.0
27
-. Jouko Leppä
FIN
160.0kg
160.0
NM
37
-. Marin Parapancea
ROU
NM
NM
DNS
29
-. Gerardo Fernández
CUB
NM
NM
DNS
26
-. Vasily Alekseyev
URS
NM
NM
DNS
38
The last two gold medals at had been won by Vasily Alekseyev (URS) who also won the 1977 World Championships.
Alekseyev was injured at the 1978 Worlds and did not compete internationally until he was listed on the Soviet team for the 1980 Olympics. He was expected to be challenged by his teammate Sultan Rakhmanov, the 1979 World Champion.
In the snatch, Rakhmanov hoisted an Olympic record 195.0 kg, but Alekseyev failed on all three attempts, and his weightlifting career was over. Rakhmanov also had the best clean & jerk, with 245.0 kg, winning the gold medal by equalling Alekseyev's Olympic record total of 440.0 kg.
The silver went to Jurgen Heuser (GDR), the 1978 World Champion, while the bronze was won by Tadeusz Rutkowski (POL), who had also won an Olympic bronze medal in 1976 in the heavyweight class 110 kg.