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
The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...
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
The Izmailovo Sports Palace is an indoor arena located in the Eastern Planning Zone in Moscow, Russia. It hosted the weightlifting
Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells or ba ...
.
For third place there was a tie between
Tadeusz Dembończyk
Tadeusz Dembonczyk (23 December 1955 – 11 February 2004) was a Polish weightlifter. He won the Bronze medal 56 kg in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He was awarded the Bronze after he tied with Andreas Letz
...
and
Andreas Letz
Andreas Letz (born 5 June 1962 in Sömmerda, Bezirk Erfurt) is a German weightlifter. He competed in the 56 kg and 60 kg categories, and set two world records in the clean and jerk, and one in the total.
Competing for ...
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.
Results
New records
References
[The Official Report of the Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 Volume Three]
PDF
p. 330. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
Sports Reference. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
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Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics