Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of nine weight classes, all for men only. Two new weight classes were introduced at these Games (flyweight and super heavyweight), marking the first changes to the Olympic program since 1952. This was the last year that the clean and press was included as one of the lifts.

Weightlifting at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Messegelände
Dates	27 August - 6 September 1972
Competitors	188 from 54 nations

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Zygmunt Smalcerz  Polen	Lajos Szűcs  Ungarn	Sándor Holczreiter  Ungarn
56 kg	Imre Földi  Ungarn	Mohammad Nassiri  Iran	Gennadi Chetin  Soviet Union
60 kg	Norair Nurikyan  Bulgarien	Dito Shanidze  Soviet Union	János Benedek  Ungarn
67.5 kg	Mukharby Kirzhinov  Soviet Union	Mladen Kutchev  Bulgarien	Zbigniew Kaczmarek  Polen
75 kg	Yordan Bikov  Bulgarien	Mohamed Traboulsi  Libanon	Anselmo Silvino  Italien
82.5 kg	Leif Jenssen  Norwegen	Norbert Ozimek  Polen	György Horváth  Ungarn
90 kg	Andon Nikolov  Bulgarien	Atanas Shopov  Bulgarien	Hans Bettembourg  Schweden
110 kg	Jaan Talts  Soviet Union	Aleksandr Kraichev  Bulgarien	Stefan Grützner  East Germany
+110 kg	Vasiliy Alekseyev  Soviet Union	Rudolf Mang  West Germany	Gerd Bonk  East Germany

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bulgarien (BUL)	3	3	0	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	1	5
3	Ungarn (HUN)	1	1	3	5
4	Polen (POL)	1	1	1	3
5	Norwegen (NOR)	1	0	0	1
6	Iran (IRI)	0	1	0	1
	Libanon (LIB)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
9	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	2	2
10	Italien (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Schweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		9	9	9	27

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 December 2006.