Date | 16 October 1968 — 10:00-16:00 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Teatro de los Insurgentes, Ciudad de México | |
Participants | 20 from 17 countries | |
Format | Total 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.
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | K | |||
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1 | Viktor Kurentsov | ![]() | 475.0 | Gold | ||
2 | Masashi Ohuchi | ![]() | 455.0 | Silver | ||
3 | Károly Bakos | ![]() | 440.0 | Bronze | ||
4 | Russ Knipp | ![]() | 437.5 | |||
5 | Lee Chun-Sik | ![]() | 437.5 | |||
6 | Werner Dittrich | ![]() | 435.0 | |||
7 | Miloslav Kolařík | ![]() | 430.0 | |||
8 | Fred Lowe | ![]() | 430.0 | |||
9 | Rolf Maier | ![]() | 425.0 | |||
10 | Sadahiro Miwa | ![]() | 425.0 | |||
11 | Albert Huser | ![]() | 410.0 | |||
12 | René Gómez | ![]() | 407.5 | |||
13 | Luiz de Almeida | ![]() | 407.5 | |||
14 | Leif Jensen | ![]() | 405.0 | |||
15 | Abel López | ![]() | 405.0 | |||
16 | Rudy Monk | ![]() | 400.0 | |||
17 | Luis Fonseca | ![]() | 335.0 | |||
Gioacchino Caracausi | ![]() | 240.0 | ||||
Daniel Gevargiz Nejad | ![]() | – | ||||
Christos Iakovou | ![]() | – |