1979 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City Thessaloniki
Country GRE
Held 3 – 11 November 1979
Competitors 47
Countries 12

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
-52 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 2
-52 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 2
-52 kg Total Men — Medal 3 2
-56 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
-56 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-56 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-60 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
-60 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-60 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-67.5 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
-67.5 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-67.5 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-75 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 2
-75 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-75 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-82.5 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
-82.5 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-82.5 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-90 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
-90 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-90 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-100 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
-100 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-100 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-110 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 2
-110 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-110 kg Total Men — Medal 3 2
+110 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
+110 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 2
+110 kg Total Men — Medal 3 2

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 16 6 2 24
2 Bulgaria BUL 4 10 3 17
3 Poland POL 4 0 4 8
4 Cuba CUB 3 0 2 5
5 Hungary HUN 1 4 2 7
6 Germany GER 1 2 2 5
7 China CHN 1 0 3 4
8 East Germany GDR 0 7 4 11
9 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 2 2 4
10 France FRA 0 0 2 2
= Japan JPN 0 0 2 2
12 Sweden SWE 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
-52 kg Snatch, Men Wu Shude CHN Aleksandr Voronin URS Cai Juncheng CHN
-52 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Kanybek Osmonaliyev URS Ferenc Hornyák HUN Aleksandr Voronin URS
-52 kg Total, Men Kanybek Osmonaliyev URS Aleksandr Voronin
Ferenc Hornyák 		URS
HUN
-56 kg Snatch, Men Tadeusz Dembończyk POL Anton Kodzhabashev BUL Daniel Núñez CUB
-56 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Viktor Veretennikov URS Anton Kodzhabashev BUL Andreas Letz GDR
-56 kg Total, Men Anton Kodzhabashev BUL Viktor Veretennikov URS Tadeusz Dembończyk POL
-60 kg Snatch, Men Marek Seweryn POL Nikolay Kolesnikov URS Zhang Zhifang CHN
-60 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Marek Seweryn POL Georgi Todorov BUL Setsuya Goto JPN
-60 kg Total, Men Marek Seweryn POL Georgi Todorov BUL Setsuya Goto JPN
-67.5 kg Snatch, Men Yanko Rusev BUL Joachim Kunz GDR Daniel Senet FRA
-67.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Yanko Rusev BUL Joachim Kunz GDR Yao Jingyuan CHN
-67.5 kg Total, Men Yanko Rusev BUL Joachim Kunz GDR Daniel Senet FRA
-75 kg Snatch, Men Tony Urrutia CUB Nedelcho Kolev BUL Yordan Mitkov BUL
-75 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Tony Urrutia CUB Peter Wenzel GDR Jürgen Negwer GER
-75 kg Total, Men Tony Urrutia CUB Nedelcho Kolev BUL Peter Wenzel GDR
-82.5 kg Snatch, Men Yuri Vardanyan URS Blagoy Blagoev BUL Bertalan Mandzák HUN
-82.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Yuri Vardanyan URS András Stark HUN Norbert Bergmann GER
-82.5 kg Total, Men Yuri Vardanyan URS Blagoy Blagoev BUL Dušan Poliačik TCH
-90 kg Snatch, Men Gennady Bessonov URS Rolf Milser GER Witold Walo POL
-90 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Rolf Milser GER Gennady Bessonov URS Witold Walo POL
-90 kg Total, Men Gennady Bessonov URS Rolf Milser GER Witold Walo POL
-100 kg Snatch, Men János Sólyomvári HUN Ota Zaremba TCH Plamen Asparuhov BUL
-100 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Pavel Syrchin URS Anton Baraniak TCH János Sólyomvári HUN
-100 kg Total, Men Pavel Syrchin URS János Sólyomvári HUN Alberto Blanco CUB
-110 kg Snatch, Men Sergey Arakelov URS Leonid Taranenko URS Valentin Hristov BUL
-110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Sergey Arakelov URS Valentin Hristov BUL Leif Nilsson SWE
-110 kg Total, Men Sergey Arakelov URS Valentin Hristov BUL Leonid Taranenko URS
+110 kg Snatch, Men Sultanbay Rakhmanov URS Jürgen Heuser GDR Rudolf Strejček TCH
+110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Sultanbay Rakhmanov URS Jürgen Heuser GDR Gerd Bonk GDR
+110 kg Total, Men Sultanbay Rakhmanov URS Jürgen Heuser GDR Gerd Bonk GDR