Date | 9 September 1960 — 09:00 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Palazzetto dello Sport, Roma | |
Participants | 24 from 22 countries | |
Format | Total of best lifts in military press, snatch, and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight. |
There was no clear favorite in this class as international competitions had produced several different winners in the last few years, and several of them had changed weight divisions. The leader after the press was American Jim George, who had won the bronze medal in the division at Melbourne. He continued to lead after the snatch, but narrowly over Poland’s Ireneusz Paliński, but Paliński outlifted George in the clean & jerk by 15 kg and won the gold medal comfortably, as George took silver. Bronze went to Paliński’s teammate, Jan Bochenek, who had always competed as a middleweight until the Rome Olympics.
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | K | |||
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1 | Ireneusz Paliński | ![]() | 442.5 | Gold | ||
2 | Jim George | ![]() | 430.0 | Silver | ||
3 | Jan Bochenek | ![]() | 420.0 | Bronze | ||
4 | Géza Tóth | ![]() | 417.5 | |||
5 | Jouni Kailajärvi | ![]() | 417.5 | |||
6 | Petar Tachev | ![]() | 415.0 | |||
7 | Minoru Kubota | ![]() | 400.0 | |||
8 | Willy Claes | ![]() | 392.5 | |||
9 | Shakir Salman | ![]() | 390.0 | |||
10 | Amiri Mangashti | ![]() | 390.0 | |||
=11 | Fernando Torres | ![]() | 390.0 | |||
=11 | Jean Debuf | ![]() | 390.0 | |||
=11 | Rolf Sennewald | ![]() | 390.0 | |||
14 | Mike Lipari | ![]() | 387.5 | |||
15 | Phil Caira | ![]() | 385.0 | |||
16 | Sven Borrman | ![]() | 385.0 | |||
17 | Iakovos Psaltis | ![]() | 385.0 | |||
18 | Kuan King Lam | ![]() | 370.0 | |||
19 | Roland Fidel | ![]() | 365.0 | |||
20 | Abdel Kader Ben Kamel | ![]() | 337.5 | |||
21 | Jesús Rodríguez | ![]() | 325.0 | |||
Fahmy Al-Juhiny | ![]() | 115.0 | ||||
Sylvanus Blackman | ![]() | 250.0 | ||||
Enrique Guittens | ![]() | – |