Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	St. Michel Arena
Dates	18–27 July 1976
Competitors	173 from 46 nations

The weightlifting competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal consisted of nine weight classes, all for men only. The clean and press was dropped from the included lifts after the 1972 games in Munich, due to disagreement over proper form. The Games of 1976 were the first Olympics to start testing for anabolic steroids, although athletes were tested only during the competition, thus leaving them free to use performance-enhancing drugs in the years prior.

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Aleksandr Voronin  Soviet Union	György Kőszegi  Hungary	Mohammad Nassiri  Iran
56 kg	Norair Nurikyan  Bulgaria	Grzegorz Cziura  Poland	Kenkichi Ando  Japan
60 kg	Nikolay Kolesnikov  Soviet Union	Georghi Todorov  Bulgaria	Kazumasa Hirai  Japan
67.5 kg	Pyotr Korol  Soviet Union	Daniel Senet  France	Kazimierz Czarnecki  Poland
75 kg	Yordan Mitkov  Bulgaria	Vardan Militosyan  Soviet Union	Peter Wenzel  East Germany
82.5 kg	Valery Shary  Soviet Union	Trendafil Stoitchev  Bulgaria	Peter Baczako  Hungary
90 kg	David Rigert  Soviet Union	Lee James  United States	Atanas Shopov  Bulgaria
110 kg	Yury Zaitsev  Soviet Union	Krastiu Semerdzhiev  Bulgaria	Tadeusz Rutkowski  Poland
+110 kg	Vasily Alekseyev  Soviet Union	Gerd Bonk  East Germany	Helmut Losch  East Germany

Zbigniew Kaczmarek of Poland originally won the 67.5 kg event, Valentin Khristov of Bulgaria originally won the 110 kg event, and Blagoy Blagoev of Bulgaria originally won silver in the 82.5 kg event, but they were disqualified and stripped of their medals after they tested positive for anabolic steroids.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	7	1	0	8
2	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	3	1	6
3	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	2	3
	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
6	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
8	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
9	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		9	9	9	27

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 December 2006.