Birgir Borgþórsson (born 2 November 1958) is an Icelandic

weightlifter Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

. He competed in the men's heavyweight I event at the

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and was the flag bearer for Iceland in the

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of those games.

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1958 births Living people Icelandic male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Iceland Weightlifters at the 1980 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Icelandic sportsmen {{Iceland-weightlifting-bio-stub