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1976 World Weightlifting Championships

International weightlifting competition

Field	Value
name	1976 Men's World Championships
host_city	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
dates	18–27 July 1976
previous	1975
next	1977

The 1976 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from July 18 to July 27, 1976. There were 173 men in action from 46 nations.

This tournament was a part of 1976 Summer Olympics but counted as World Weightlifting Championships too. Only total medals counted for Olympic Games while Snatch and Clean & Jerk medals counts for World Weightlifting Championships.

Medal summary

52 kg	56 kg	60 kg	67.5 kg	75 kg	82.5 kg	90 kg
Snatch	György Kőszegi	107.5 kg	Masatomo Takeuchi	105.0 kg	Aleksandr Voronin	105.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Aleksandr Voronin	137.5 kg	Mohammad Nassiri	135.0 kg	György Kőszegi	130.0 kg
Total	Aleksandr Voronin	242.5 kg	György Kőszegi	237.5 kg	Mohammad Nassiri	235.0 kg
Snatch	Norair Nurikyan	117.5 kg	Grzegorz Cziura	115.0 kg	Leszek Skorupa	112.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Norair Nurikyan	145.0 kg	Kenkichi Ando	142.5 kg	Imre Földi	140.0 kg
Total	Norair Nurikyan	262.5 kg
Grzegorz Cziura	252.5 kg	Kenkichi Ando	250.0 kg
Snatch	Nikolay Kolesnikov	125.0 kg	Kazumasa Hirai	125.0 kg	Georgi Todorov	122.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Nikolay Kolesnikov	160.0 kg	Georgi Todorov	157.5 kg	Takashi Saito	152.5 kg
Total	Nikolay Kolesnikov	285.0 kg	Georgi Todorov	280.0 kg	Kazumasa Hirai	275.0 kg
Snatch	Petro Korol	135.0 kg	Daniel Senet	135.0 kg	Kazimierz Czarnecki	130.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Petro Korol	170.0 kg	Günter Ambraß	170.0 kg	Yatsuo Shimaya	165.0 kg
Total	Petro Korol	305.0 kg	Daniel Senet	300.0 kg	Kazimierz Czarnecki	295.0 kg
Snatch	Yordan Mitkov	145.0 kg	Peter Wenzel	145.0 kg	Vardan Militosyan	145.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Yordan Mitkov	190.0 kg	Vardan Militosyan	185.0 kg	Peter Wenzel	182.5 kg
Total	Yordan Mitkov	335.0 kg	Vardan Militosyan	330.0 kg	Peter Wenzel	327.5 kg
Snatch	Valery Shary	162.5 kg	Trendafil Stoychev	162.5 kg	Péter Baczakó	157.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Rolf Milser	205.0 kg	Valery Shary	202.5 kg	Trendafil Stoychev	197.5 kg
Total	Valery Shary	365.0 kg	Trendafil Stoychev	360.0 kg	Péter Baczakó	345.0 kg
Snatch	David Rigert	170.0 kg	Lee James	165.0 kg	Michel Broillet	165.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	David Rigert	212.5 kg	Atanas Shopov	205.0 kg	Lee James	197.5 kg
Total	David Rigert	382.5 kg	Lee James	362.5 kg	Atanas Shopov	360.0 kg
Snatch	Krastyu Semerdzhiev	170.0 kg	Tadeusz Rutkowski	167.5 kg	Russ Prior	167.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Yury Zaitsev	220.0 kg	Pierre Gourrier	215.0 kg	Krastyu Semerdzhiev	215.0 kg
Total	Yury Zaitsev	385.0 kg	Krastyu Semerdzhiev	385.0 kg	Tadeusz Rutkowski	377.5 kg
Snatch	Vasily Alekseyev	185.0 kg	Bruce Wilhelm	172.5 kg	Gerd Bonk	170.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Vasily Alekseyev	255.0 kg
Gerd Bonk	235.0 kg	Ján Nagy	227.5 kg
Total	Vasily Alekseyev	440.0 kg	Gerd Bonk	405.0 kg	Helmut Losch	387.5 kg

Medal table

Ranking by Big (Total result) medals

Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)

References

Results (Sport 123)
Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics

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