1972 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City München
Country GER
Held 27 August – 6 September 1972
Competitors 57
Countries 21

Olympic Games

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
flyweight -52 kg Press Men — Medal 3 2
flyweight -52 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
flyweight -52 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
flyweight -52 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 2
bantamweight -56 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
bantamweight -56 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
bantamweight -56 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
featherweight -60 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
featherweight -60 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
featherweight -60 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
lightweight -67.5 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
lightweight -67.5 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
lightweight -67.5 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
middleweight -75 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
middleweight -75 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
middleweight -75 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 2
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 2
heavyweight -110 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
heavyweight -110 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
heavyweight -110 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 2
heavyweight -110 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
super-heavyweight +110 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
super-heavyweight +110 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
super-heavyweight +110 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
super-heavyweight +110 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 11 4 6 21
2 Bulgaria BUL 7 5 4 16
3 Hungary HUN 4 4 4 12
4 Poland POL 3 4 5 12
5 Norway NOR 3 0 1 4
6 East Germany GDR 1 3 2 6
= Germany GER 1 3 2 6
8 Japan JPN 1 1 2 4
= United States USA 1 1 2 4
10 Albania ALB 1 0 0 1
= Czechoslovakia TCH 1 0 0 1
= Myanmar MYA 1 0 0 1
= North Korea PRK 1 0 0 1
14 Iran IRI 0 4 0 4
15 Finland FIN 0 2 1 3
= Lebanon LBN 0 2 1 3
17 France FRA 0 1 1 2
= Sweden SWE 0 1 1 2
19 Greece GRE 0 1 0 1
20 Italy ITA 0 0 3 3
21 South Korea KOR 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
flyweight -52 kg Press, Men Zygmunt Smalcerz POL Sándor Holczreiter HUN Lajos Szűcs HUN
flyweight -52 kg Snatch, Men Gyi Aung Maung MYA Zygmunt Smalcerz POL Tetsuhide Sasaki JPN
flyweight -52 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Pak Dong-Geun PRK Lajos Szűcs HUN Zygmunt Smalcerz POL
flyweight -52 kg Total (three lifts), Men Zygmunt Smalcerz POL Lajos Szűcs HUN Sándor Holczreiter HUN
bantamweight -56 kg Press, Men Imre Földi HUN Mohammad Nassiri IRI Henryk Trębicki POL
bantamweight -56 kg Snatch, Men Koji Miki JPN Gennady Chetin URS Henryk Trębicki POL
bantamweight -56 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Imre Földi HUN Mohammad Nassiri IRI Gennady Chetin URS
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men Imre Földi HUN Mohammad Nassiri IRI Gennady Chetin URS
featherweight -60 kg Press, Men Ymer Pampuri ALB Dito Shanidze URS Norayr Nurikyan BUL
featherweight -60 kg Snatch, Men Jan Wojnowski POL Yoshinobu Miyake JPN Dito Shanidze URS
featherweight -60 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Norayr Nurikyan BUL Dito Shanidze URS Yoshinobu Miyake JPN
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men Norayr Nurikyan BUL Dito Shanidze URS János Benedek HUN
lightweight -67.5 kg Press, Men Mladen Kuchev BUL Nasrollah Dehnavi IRI Mukharby Kirzhinov URS
lightweight -67.5 kg Snatch, Men Mukharby Kirzhinov URS Waldemar Baszanowski POL Won Sin-Hui KOR
lightweight -67.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Mukharby Kirzhinov URS Mladen Kuchev BUL Zbigniew Kaczmarek POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Mukharby Kirzhinov URS Mladen Kuchev BUL Zbigniew Kaczmarek POL
middleweight -75 kg Press, Men Vladimir Kanygin URS Mohamed Kheir Tarabulsi LBN Yordan Bikov BUL
middleweight -75 kg Snatch, Men Ondrej Hekel TCH Aimé Terme FRA Mohamed Kheir Tarabulsi LBN
middleweight -75 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Yordan Bikov BUL Gábor Szarvas HUN Anselmo Silvino ITA
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men Yordan Bikov BUL Mohamed Kheir Tarabulsi LBN Anselmo Silvino ITA
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Press, Men Leif Jensen NOR Christos Iakovou GRE Rolf Milser GER
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Snatch, Men Leif Jensen NOR Bernhard Radtke GDR Mike Karchut USA
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men György Horváth HUN Norbert Ozimek POL Leif Jensen NOR
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Leif Jensen NOR Norbert Ozimek POL György Horváth HUN
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Press, Men David Rigert URS Hans Bettembourg SWE Andon Nikolov BUL
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Snatch, Men Andon Nikolov BUL Jaakko Kailajärvi FIN Pierre Gourrier FRA
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Rick Holbrook USA Phil Grippaldi USA Atanas Shopov BUL
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Andon Nikolov BUL Atanas Shopov BUL Hans Bettembourg SWE
heavyweight -110 kg Press, Men Jaan Talts URS Aleksandar Kraychev BUL Roberto Vezzani ITA
heavyweight -110 kg Snatch, Men Rainer Dörrzapf GER Kauko Kangasniemi FIN Jaan Talts URS
heavyweight -110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Stefan Grützner GDR Helmut Losch GDR Jaan Talts URS
heavyweight -110 kg Total (three lifts), Men Jaan Talts URS Aleksandar Kraychev BUL Stefan Grützner GDR
super-heavyweight +110 kg Press, Men Vasily Alekseyev URS Rudolf Mang GER Ken Patera USA
super-heavyweight +110 kg Snatch, Men Vasily Alekseyev URS Rudolf Mang GER Kalevi Lahdenranta FIN
super-heavyweight +110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Vasily Alekseyev URS Gerd Bonk GDR Rudolf Mang GER
super-heavyweight +110 kg Total (three lifts), Men Vasily Alekseyev URS Rudolf Mang GER Gerd Bonk GDR