Weightlifting — Light-Heavyweight, Men

Times held 24
Total participants 392
Total countries 104

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1920 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 11 9
1924 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 20 12
1928 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 15 10
1932 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 4 3
1936 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 14 9
1948 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 16 13
1952 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 23 20
1956 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 10 9
1960 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 24 22
1964 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 24 21
1968 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 26 22
1972 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 24 21
1976 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 17 14
1980 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 19 17
1984 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 19 16
1988 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 22 20
1992 Light-Heavyweight (≤82½ kilograms), Men Olympic 30 25
1996 Light-Heavyweight (≤83 kilograms), Men Olympic 20 18
2000 Light-Heavyweight (≤85 kilograms), Men Olympic 20 17
2004 Light-Heavyweight (≤85 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 19
2008 Light-Heavyweight (≤85 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 19
2012 Light-Heavyweight (≤85 kilograms), Men Olympic 23 20
2016 Light-Heavyweight (≤85 kilograms), Men Olympic 23 21
2020 Light-Heavyweight (≤81 kilograms), Men Olympic 14 14

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1920 Ernest CadineFRA Fritz HünenbergerSUI Erik PetterssonSWE
1924 Charles RigoulotFRA Fritz HünenbergerSUI Leopold FriedrichAUT
1928 Sayed NosseirEGY Louis HostinFRA Jan VerheijenNED
1932 Louis HostinFRA Svend OlsenDEN Henry DueyUSA
1936 Louis HostinFRA Eugen DeutschGER Wasif IbrahimEGY
1948 Stan StanczykUSA Harold SakataUSA Gösta MagnussonSWE
1952 Trofim LomakinURS Stan StanczykUSA Arkady VorobyovURS
1956 Tommy KonoUSA Vasīlijs StepanovsURS Jim GeorgeUSA
1960 Ireneusz PalińskiPOL Jim GeorgeUSA Jan BochenekPOL
1964 Rudolf PlyukfelderURS Géza TóthHUN Győző VeresHUN
1968 Boris SelitskyURS Vladimir BelyayevURS Norbert OzimekPOL
1972 Leif JensenNOR Norbert OzimekPOL György HorváthHUN
1976 Valery SharyURS Trendafil StoychevBUL Péter BaczakóHUN
1980 Yuri VardanyanURS Blagoy BlagoevBUL Dušan PoliačikTCH
1984 Petre BecheruROU Robert KabbasAUS Ryoji IsaokaJPN
1988 Israil ArsamakovURS István MessziHUN Lee Hyeong-GeunKOR
1992 Pyrros DimasGRE Krzysztof SiemionPOL
1996 Pyrros DimasGRE Marc HusterGER Andrzej CofalikPOL
2000 Pyrros DimasGRE Marc HusterGER Giorgi AsanidzeGEO
2004 Giorgi AsanidzeGEO Andrei RybakouBLR Pyrros DimasGRE
2008 Lu YongCHN Tigran Varban MartirosyanARM Jadier ValladaresCUB
2012 Adrian ZielińskiPOL Kianoush RostamiIRI Tarek YahiaEGY
2016 Kianoush RostamiIRI Tian TaoCHN Denis UlanovKAZ
2020 Lu XiaojunCHN Zacarías BonnatDOM Antonino PizzolatoITA

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Soviet Union URS 6 2 1 9
France FRA 4 1 0 5
Greece GRE 3 0 1 4
United States USA 2 3 2 7
Poland POL 2 2 3 7
People's Republic of China CHN 2 1 0 3
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 1 1 0 2
Egypt EGY 1 0 2 3
Georgia GEO 1 0 1 2
Norway NOR 1 0 0 1
Romania ROU 1 0 0 1
Germany GER 0 3 0 3
Hungary HUN 0 2 3 5
Bulgaria BUL 0 2 0 2
Switzerland SUI 0 2 0 2
Armenia ARM 0 1 0 1
Australia AUS 0 1 0 1
Belarus BLR 0 1 0 1
Denmark DEN 0 1 0 1
Dominican Republic DOM 0 1 0 1
Sweden SWE 0 0 2 2
Austria AUT 0 0 1 1
Cuba CUB 0 0 1 1
Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 1 1
Italy ITA 0 0 1 1
Japan JPN 0 0 1 1
Kazakhstan KAZ 0 0 1 1
Netherlands NED 0 0 1 1
Republic of Korea KOR 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Pyrros Dimas GRE 3 0 1 4
Louis Hostin FRA 2 1 0 3
Stan Stanczyk USA 1 1 0 2
Kianoush Rostami IRI 1 1 0 2
Giorgi Asanidze GEO 1 0 1 2