Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 56 kg

The Men's Bantamweight Weightlifting Event (– 56 kg) is the second lightest men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 56 kilograms of body mass. Each weightlifter had three attempts for both the snatch and clean and jerk lifting methods. The total of the best successful lift of each method was used to determine the final rankings and medal winners. Competition took place on 21 July in the Izmailovo Sports Palace.^[1][2]

Men's 56 kg at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Izmailovo Sports Palace
Date	21 July 1980
Competitors	21 from 17 nations
Medalists
Daniel Núñez  Cuba Yurik Sarkisyan  Soviet Union Tadeusz Dembończyk  Poland
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For third place there was a tie between Tadeusz Dembończyk and Andreas Letz as they both weighed 55.60 kg at the weigh-in and they both had a 265 kg total. They were re-weighed after the event, Dembończyk weighed 0.1 kg less than Letz and was awarded the bronze medal.^[2]

Results

Rank	Name	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total (kg)
			1	2	3	Result	1	2	3	Result
	Daniel Núñez (CUB)	55.60	117.5	122.5	125	125	145	150	152.5	150	275
	Yurik Sarkisyan (URS)	55.80	112.5	112.5	117.5	112.5	150	155	157.5	157.5	270
	Tadeusz Dembończyk (POL)	55.60	115	120	122.5	120	140	145	145	145	265
4	Andreas Letz (GDR)	55.60	110	115	115	115	145	150	152.5	150	265
5	Yang Eui-yong (PRK)	55.75	107.5	112.5	115	112.5	145	150	150	150	262.5
6	Imre Stefanovics (HUN)	55.15	110	115	115	115	145	150	150	145	260
7	Gheorghe Maftei (ROU)	55.40	105	110	110	105	142.5	147.5	147.5	142.5	247.5
8	Petre Pavel (ROU)	55.40	105	105	105	105	140	145	145	140	245
9	Choe Jong-sop (PRK)	55.70	100	105	110	105	132.5	137.5	142.5	137.5	242.5
10	Ioannis Sidiropoulos (GRE)	55.95	102.5	102.5	107.5	102.5	132.5	137.5	140	140	242.5
11	Ahmed Tarbi (ALG)	55.55	100	105	107.5	105	127.5	132.5	135	135	240
12	Abdul Karim Gizar (IRQ)	55.85	100	105	107.5	105	127.5	132.5	135	135	240
13	Arvo Ojalehto (FIN)	55.95	105	105	105	105	132.5	137.5	137.5	132.5	237.5
14	Johnny Helsing (SWE)	55.85	95	95	100	100	132.5	137.5	137.5	132.5	232.5
15	Pertti Torikka (SWE)	55.70	100	105	105	100	130	135	135	130	230
16	Lorenzo Orsini (AUS)	55.15	90	95	95	95	120	125	125	125	220
17	Ali Shalabi (LBA)	55.95	85	90	95	95	115	120	125	120	215
18	Ashok Kumar Karki (NEP)	55.40	60	65	67.5	65	80	80	80	80	145
-	György Kőszegi (HUN)	55.55	110	115	115	110	142.5	142.5	142.5	-	DNF
-	Bruno Lebrun (FRA)	56.00	105	110	110	105	132.5	132.5	132.5	-	DNF
-	Tamil Selwan Muniswamy (IND)	56.00	100	100	100	100	115	115	115	-	DNF

New records

Snatch[1][3]	125.0 kg	Daniel Núñez (CUB)	WR
Clean & Jerk[1][4]	157.5 kg	Yurik Sarkisyan (URS)	WR
Total[1][3]	275.0 kg	Daniel Núñez (CUB)	WR