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1979 World Weightlifting Championships

International weightlifting competition

Field	Value
name	1979 Men's World Championships
host_city	Thessaloniki, Greece
dates	3–11 November 1979
previous	1978
next	1980

The 1979 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Thessaloniki, Greece from November 3 to November 11, 1979. There were 189 men in action from 39 nations.

Medal summary

52 kg	56 kg	60 kg	67.5 kg	75 kg	82.5 kg	90 kg
Snatch	Wu Shude	110.0 kg	Aleksandr Voronin	110.0 kg	Cai Juncheng	107.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Kanybek Osmonaliyev	137.5 kg	Ferenc Hornyák	135.0 kg	Aleksandr Voronin	132.5 kg
Total	Kanybek Osmonaliyev	242.5 kg	Ferenc Hornyák	242.5 kg	Shared silver
Aleksandr Voronin
Snatch	Tadeusz Dembończyk	117.5 kg	Anton Kodzhabashev	117.5 kg	Daniel Núñez	115.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Viktor Veretennikov	150.0 kg	Anton Kodzhabashev	150.0 kg	Andreas Letz	147.5 kg
Total	Anton Kodzhabashev	267.5 kg	Viktor Veretennikov	262.5 kg	Tadeusz Dembończyk	260.0 kg
Snatch	Marek Seweryn	127.5 kg	Nikolay Kolesnikov	125.0 kg	Zhang Zhifang	125.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Marek Seweryn	155.0 kg	Georgi Todorov	155.0 kg	Setsuya Goto	150.0 kg
Total	Marek Seweryn	282.5 kg	Georgi Todorov	275.0 kg	Setsuya Goto	270.0 kg
Snatch	Yanko Rusev	145.0 kg	Joachim Kunz	145.0 kg	Daniel Senet	142.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Yanko Rusev	187.5 kg
Joachim Kunz	180.0 kg	Yao Jingyuan	172.5 kg
Total	Yanko Rusev	332.5 kg
Joachim Kunz	325.0 kg	Daniel Senet	312.5 kg
Snatch	Roberto Urrutia	155.0 kg	Nedelcho Kolev	155.0 kg	Yordan Mitkov	150.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Roberto Urrutia	190.0 kg	Peter Wenzel	190.0 kg	Jürgen Negwer	187.5 kg
Total	Roberto Urrutia	345.0 kg	Nedelcho Kolev	342.5 kg	Peter Wenzel	337.5 kg
Snatch	Yurik Vardanyan	170.0 kg	Blagoy Blagoev	170.0 kg	Bertalan Mandzák	155.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Yurik Vardanyan	200.0 kg	András Stark	195.0 kg	Norbert Bergmann	195.0 kg
Total	Yurik Vardanyan	370.0 kg	Blagoy Blagoev	362.5 kg	Dušan Poliačik	350.0 kg
Snatch	Gennady Bessonov	170.0 kg	Rolf Milser	165.0 kg	Witold Walo	160.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Rolf Milser	212.5 kg	Gennady Bessonov	210.0 kg	Witold Walo	202.5 kg
Total	Gennady Bessonov	380.0 kg	Rolf Milser	377.5 kg	Witold Walo	362.5 kg
Snatch	János Sólyomvári	175.0 kg	Ota Zaremba	172.5 kg	Plamen Asparukhov	167.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Pavel Syrchin	217.5 kg	Anton Baraniak	210.0 kg	János Sólyomvári	210.0 kg
Total	Pavel Syrchin	385.0 kg	János Sólyomvári	385.0 kg	Alberto Blanco	372.5 kg
Snatch	Sergey Arakelov	185.0 kg	Leonid Taranenko	182.5 kg	Valentin Hristov	177.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Sergey Arakelov	225.0 kg	Valentin Hristov	225.0 kg	Leif Nilsson	220.0 kg
Total	Sergey Arakelov	410.0 kg	Valentin Hristov	402.5 kg	Leonid Taranenko	402.5 kg
Snatch	Sultan Rakhmanov	192.5 kg	Jürgen Heuser	187.5 kg	Rudolf Strejček	185.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Sultan Rakhmanov	237.5 kg	Jürgen Heuser	232.5 kg	Gerd Bonk	230.0 kg
Total	Sultan Rakhmanov	430.0 kg	Jürgen Heuser	420.0 kg	Gerd Bonk	412.5 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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