Weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting; at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Gersten Pavilion
Dates	29 July - 8 August 1984
Competitors	186 from 48 nations

The weightlifting competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of ten weight classes. The 1984 Summer Olympics boycott meant that the most dominant forces in weightlifting at the time, the USSR and Bulgaria did not take part. This left the field wide open.[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight –52 kg	Zeng Guoqiang China	Zhou Peishun China	Kazushito Manabe Japan
Bantamweight 52–56 kg	Wu Shude China	Lai Runming China	Masahiro Kotaka Japan
Featherweight 56–60 kg	Chen Weiqiang China	Gelu Radu Romania	Tsai Wen-Yee Chinese Taipei
Lightweight 60–67.5 kg	Yao Jingyuan China	Andrei Socaci Romania	Jouni Grönman Finland
Middleweight 67.5–75 kg	Karl-Heinz Radschinsky West Germany	Jacques Demers Canada	Dragomir Cioroslan Romania
Light-heavyweight 75–82.5 kg	Petre Becheru Romania	Robert Kabbas Australia	Ryoji Isaoka Japan
Middle-heavyweight 82.5–90 kg	Nicu Vlad Romania	Petre Dumitru Romania	David Mercer Great Britain
First-heavyweight 90–100 kg	Rolf Milser West Germany	Vasile Groapa Romania	Pekka Niemi Finland
Heavyweight 100–110 kg	Norberto Oberburger Italy	Stefan Tasnadi Romania	Guy Carlton United States
Super heavyweight +110 kg	Dean Lukin Australia	Mario Martinez United States	Manfred Nerlinger West Germany


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	4	2	0	6
2	Romania (ROU)	2	5	1	8
3	West Germany (FRG)	2	0	1	3
4	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
5	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
6	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
7	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
8	Japan (JPN)	0	0	3	3
9	Finland (FIN)	0	0	2	2
10	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
10	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		10	10	10	30

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