Date | 21 July 1996 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall E) | |
Participants | 20 from 19 countries | |
Format | Total of best lifts in snatch and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight. |
The three favorites were Greek Leonidas Sabanis and Bulgarian Nikolay Peshalov, who had won the last three World Championships, Sabanis in 1995 and Peshalov in 1993-94, and China’s Tang Ningsheng, the world record holder. All three tied with 137.5 kg in the snatch, but Tang won the gold medal with a world record equalling clean & jerk of 170.0 kg. Sabanis won the silver with his jerk of 167.5 kg, while Peshalov missed his first two lifts in the clean & jerk, and had to settle for 165.0 kg on his final attempt, and the bronze medal. Peshalov would win an Olympic gold medal, but as a featherweight and at Sydney in 2000, with Sabanis the silver medalist in that event.
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | K | |||
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1 | Tang Lingsheng | CHN | 307.5 | Gold | ||
2 | Leonidas Sampanis | GRE | 305.0 | Silver | ||
3 | Nikolay Peshalov | BUL | 302.5 | Bronze | ||
4 | Hiroshi Ikehata | JPN | 297.5 | |||
5 | William Vargas | CUB | 297.5 | |||
6 | Xu Dong | CHN | 295.0 | |||
7 | Yurik Sarkisyan | AUS | 280.0 | |||
8 | Zoltán Farkas | HUN | 280.0 | |||
9 | Bryan Jacob | USA | 272.5 | |||
10 | Petr Stanislav | CZE | 255.0 | |||
11 | Raghavan Chanderasekaran | IND | 252.5 | |||
12 | Viktar Siniak | BLR | 250.0 | |||
13 | César Rodríguez | PUR | 242.5 | |||
14 | Nuno Alves | POR | 237.5 | |||
15 | Bonayan Al-Dosari | KSA | 227.5 | |||
16 | Moustafa Buihamghet | MAR | 210.0 | |||
Jeon Byeong-Gwan | KOR | – | ||||
Asif Məlikov | AZE | – | ||||
Marcus Stephen | NRU | – | ||||
Hafız Süleymanoğlu | TUR | – |