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Middleweight (≤75 kilograms), Men

Date31 August 1972 — 13:00-19:00
StatusOlympic
LocationGewichtheberhalle, Messegelände (Halle 7), München
Participants26 from 22 countries
FormatTotal of best lifts in military press, snatch, and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight.

This class was considered wide open with no clear favorite. Soviet lifter Vladimir Kanygin had won the 1971 World Championships and took the lead after the press with 165.0 kg, but he then failed on all three snatch attempts and was out of the competition. The leaders after the snatch were Bulgarian Yordan Bikov and Lebanon’s Mohamed Kheir Tarabulsi, who both lifted 160.0 kg in the press and 140.0 kg in the snatch. Both were little known, although Bikov had won the clean & jerk at the 1971 Worlds, and Tarabulsi had won a bronze in the snatch at the 1970 Worlds. When Bikov jerked 185.0 kg, the gold medal was his, with Tarabulsi taking silver, just ahead of Italian Anselmo Silvino, who had also been overall bronze medalist at the 1971 World Championships. Through 2016, Tarabulsi’s medal in 1972 is the only Olympic medal won by a Lebanese lifter.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCK
1Yordan BikovBUL485.0WRGold
2Mohamed Kheir TarabulsiLBN472.5Silver
3Anselmo SilvinoITA470.0Bronze
4Ondrej HekelTCH462.5
5Frank ZieleckeGDR460.0
6Gábor SzarvasHUN460.0
7András StarkHUN460.0
8Russ KnippUSA457.5
9Fred LoweUSA457.5
=10Salvatore LaudaniITA440.0
=10Tore BjørnsenNOR440.0
12Panagiotis SpyrouGRE430.0
13Arvo Ala-PöntiöFIN427.5
14Erling JohansenDEN425.0
15Aimé TermeFRA425.0
16İsmail BayramTUR412.5
17Tony EbertNZL410.0
18Natsagiin Ser-OdMGL400.0
19Malik ArshadPAK372.5
ACKeith AdamsCAN137.5
ACLeopold PichlerAUT145.0
ACVladimir KanyginURS165.0
ACUwe KlicheFRG267.5
DNFAlfonso RodríguezPUR
DNFYossef RomanoISR
DNFWerner DittrichGDR