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Weightlifting At The 1980 Summer Olympics
Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by ten events (all — men's individual), held between 20 and 30 July at the '' Izmailovo Sports Palace'', situated alongside the ''Izmailovo Park'' (eastern part of Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...). Medal summary Medal table Results 52 kg 56 kg 60 kg 67.5 kg 75 kg 82.5 kg 90 kg 100 kg 110 kg +110 kg Remarks: *All weights are given in kilograms *WR=World Record, OR=Olympic Record, JWR=Junior World Record *Country names in the medal table are not given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980 References External linksOfficial Olympic Report {{DEFAULTSORT:Weightlifting At The 1980 Summer Olympics 1980 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RIAN Archive 490320 Weightlifing At 1980 Olympic Games
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Joachim Kunz
Joachim Kunz (born 9 February 1959) is a German weightlifter who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was born in Stollberg. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow he won a silver medal in the class. He won gold at the 1981 and 1983 World Championships. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul he won a gold medal in the class. As of 2008, Kunz is head of German instant soup Instant soup is a type of soup designed for fast and simple preparation. Some are homemade, and some are mass-produced on an industrial scale and treated in various ways to preserve them. A wide variety of types, styles and flavors of instant soup ... manufacturer ''Suppina''. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kunz, Joachim 1959 births Living people People from Stollberg German male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of East Germany Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Olympic silver medalists for East Germany Weightl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Blanco (weightlifter)
Alberto Blanco Fernández (born 17 February 1950) is a Cuban weightlifter. He competed in the middle heavyweight and First heavyweight class, representing Cuba at international competitions. He won the bronze medal at the 1977, 1979 and 1980 World Weightlifting Championships. He won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the 100 kg event. He also participated at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal at the 1979 Pan American Games The 1979 Pan American Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Panamericanos de 1979''), officially the VIII Pan American Games were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, and were held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from July 1 to July 15 ... in the Sub-Heavyweight class (357.5 kg). References External links * * * 1950 births Living people Cuban male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Cuba Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba Olympic medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Olympics We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Nikitin (weightlifter)
Igor Nikitin (born February 29, 1952) is a Soviet weightlifter. He won the Silver medal in 100 kg category in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million .... . References 1952 births Living people Olympic weightlifters for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 1980 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Soviet male weightlifters {{USSR-weightlifting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ota Zaremba
Ota Zaremba (born 22 April 1957) is a Czechoslovak weightlifter, Olympic champion and world champion. He won gold medal in the heavyweight I class at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. After he ended his career, Zaremba admitted he used doping throughout his career with the acknowledgment of the sport officials and coaches. at iDNES.cz In 2010 Zaremba entered to the far-right Workers' Party of Social Justice
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Frank Mantek
Frank Mantek (born 20 January 1959) is a German weightlifting coach and a retired weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the middle-heavyweight (under 90 kg) category, which also qualified as a bronze medal at world championships. In 1982 he won another combined bronze medal in the world/European championships. He retired in 1983 and later admitted taking the performance-enhancing drug Oral Turinabol as part of the East German training system. According to the doping expert Werner Franke, with an annual dose of 7600 mg Mantek was the second most doped East German athlete. Since 1990 he is a head coach of the German Weightlifting Federation, raising such athletes as Matthias Steiner Matthias Steiner (; born 25 August 1982 in Vienna) is a retired Austrian-German weightlifter, and Olympic gold medalist. As a native Austrian, he competed for Austria internationally from 1998 to 2005, in European Championships, World Champions .... He suffer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumen Aleksandrov
Rumen Aleksandrov ( bg, Румен Александров )(born 26 June 1960) is a Bulgarian weightlifter. He won the Silver medal in the 90 Kg class in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million .... He was champion of Europe in 1980, in Belgrade, Serbia. Aleksandrov was also world and European junior champion in 1978 in Athens, Greece. He started training weightlifting in 1971 under Gancho Karushkov. He graduated from the Vasil Levski Sports School and competed for the team of Maritsa Plovdiv (1971 – 1978) and for the team of CSKA (1978 – 1982). Since 1982 he has been a coach at the team of CSKA. Between 1989 and 1992 he worked with the national team of Bulgaria. He shared his experience in many countries around the world, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péter Baczakó
Péter Baczakó (born 27 September 1951 in Ercsi – d. 1 April 2008 in Budapest) was a Hungarian weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Overall Baczako won a total of 23 medals, including four gold, at world and European championships from 1973 to 1982. He spent his whole career at the Budapest club BKV-Elore, where he became a coach after he retired from competing. Peter Baczako died on April 1, 2008, in Budapest of cancer. He had also been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy Muscular dystrophies (MD) are a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare neuromuscular diseases that cause progressive weakness and breakdown of skeletal muscles over time. The disorders differ as to which muscles are primarily affe ... and spent his last months in a wheelchair. References External links * * * * 1951 births 2008 deaths Hungarian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Hungary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dušan Poliačik
Dušan Poliačik (born 11 February 1955) is a retired Slovak light-heavyweight weightlifter who won bronze medals at all major competitions in 1979–1981, including the world and European championships and the 1980 Olympics. References 1955 births Living people Olympic weightlifters for Czechoslovakia Weightlifters at the 1980 Summer Olympics Czechoslovak male weightlifters Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Slovak male weightlifters European Weightlifting Championships medalists World Weightlifting Championships medalists {{Slovakia-weightlifting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blagoy Blagoev
Blagoy Blagoev ( bg, Благой Благоев; born 4 December 1956) is a retired Bulgarian weightlifter. Between 1976 and 1984 he claimed seven gold and five silver medals at the Summer Olympics and World and European championships. He set 18 world records. 13 of them were in the snatch. His last snatch world record was 195.5 kg in the 90 kg weight class, set on 1 May 1983 in Varna and remains the heaviest weight ever snatched by a middle heavyweight. Blagoev was a two time Olympian. He represented his native country Bulgaria at the Summer Olympics in Montreal (1976) and in Moscow (1980). He won a silver Olympic medal in the light heavyweight 1980. Blagoy Blagoev competed in the 82.5 kg and 90 kg weight classes. He was a 3x World Champion (1981, 1982, 1983) in the middle heavyweight. He won 4 gold European medals – as a light heavyweight in 1979 and as a middle heavyweight in 1981-1983. Blagoev also won three consecutive World Cups in Varna, Bulgaria in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nedelcho Kolev
Nedelcho Lazarov Kolev ( bg, Неделчо Лазаров Колев, born 26 March 1953 in Kableshkovo) is a Bulgarian Olympic, European and World Weightlifting Champion. He had success at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and won 6 gold medals at the world championships in Manila and Havana, Cuba. He has worked as chief coach for the national teams of Bulgaria, Bahrain, India, Thailand and Indonesia. From 1965 to 1980 he competed only for CSKA Sofia club. His coaches were Angel Akrabov and Zdravko Koev. In the national team of Bulgaria was trained by Ivan Abadzhiev. Kolev has won a total of 29 medals from the Olympic Games, World and European Championships in total, snatch and clean and jerk - 11 gold, 11 silver and 7 bronze. He has set 16 world records - 11 for men and 5 for juniors. He was elected Athlete of the Year of Bulgaria for 1973. Kolev is the father of singer Ruth Koleva Ruth (or its variants) may refer to: Places France * Château de Ruthie, castle in the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
