Flyweight (≤52 kg), Men

This was the closest competition in Olympic weightlifting history, with the first four lifters all registering the same weight. The gold medal went to Soviet Kanybek Osmonaliyev, who had won the 1978-79 World Championships, on bodyweight, as Osmonaliyev was 0.2 kg lighter than North Korean Ho Bong-Chol. Ho’s teammate, Han Gyong-Si, and Hungarian Béla Oláh had both weighed the same at 52.0 kg (0.1 kg more than Ho) prior to the competition, so they were re-weighed after the event ended, and Han was awarded the bronze medal as, by then, he weighed 0.1 kg less than Oláh. So in this case, Han Gyong-Si became an Olympic medalist because he sweated more than the other guy.