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.^[1]

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

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bulgaria (BUL)	3	3	0	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	1	5
3	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	3	5
4	Poland (POL)	1	1	1	3
5	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
6	Iran (IRI)	0	1	0	1
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
9	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	2	2
10	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		9	9	9	27