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Middleweight (≤75 kilograms), Men

Date16 October 1968 — 10:00-16:00
StatusOlympic
LocationTeatro de los Insurgentes, Ciudad de México
Participants20 from 17 countries
FormatTotal of best lifts in military press, snatch, and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight.

Viktor Kurentsov (URS) was the silver medalist in this class at Tokyo in 1964, but he was the world record holder in 1968 and had won the World Championships in both 1965 and 1966 – there was no World meet in 1967. He quickly put this competition out of reach by pressing 152.5 kg to take a 12.5 kg lead. When he cleaned & jerked 187.5 kg he won the gold medal by 20 kg over Japan’s Masashi Ouchi, who had also trailed Kurentsov in 1964, winning a bronze medal at Tokyo. Kurentsov’s winning margin was the largest in the middleweight division since 1936 when Egypt’s Khadr El-Touni won by 35 kg.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCK
1Viktor KurentsovURS475.0ORGold
2Masashi OhuchiJPN455.0Silver
3Károly BakosHUN440.0Bronze
4Russ KnippUSA437.5
5Lee Chun-SikKOR437.5
6Werner DittrichGDR435.0
7Miloslav KolaříkTCH430.0
8Fred LoweUSA430.0
9Rolf MaierFRA425.0
10Sadahiro MiwaJPN425.0
11Albert HuserFRG410.0
12René GómezCUB407.5
13Luiz de AlmeidaBRA407.5
14Leif JensenNOR405.0
15Abel LópezCUB405.0
16Rudy MonkAHO400.0
17Luis FonsecaCRC335.0
ACGioacchino CaracausiITA240.0
DNFDaniel Gevargiz NejadIRI
DNFChristos IakovouGRE