Men Featherweight 52kg Weightlifting XXI Olympic Games Montreal 1976 - 18th July, Gold Medal: Alexandr Voronin, Soviet Union
Venue: St. Michel Arena, Montreal, Quebec. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight.
Final Ranking
Total
Snatch
Cl&Jk
Weight
Gr.
Age
1. Alexandr Voronin
URS
242.5kg =WR
105.0
137.5 OR
51.85
A
25
2. Gyorgy Koszegi
HUN
237.5kg
107.5 OR
130.0
51.80
A
25
3. Mohammad Nassiri
IRN
235.0kg
100.0
135.0
51.75
A
30
4. Masatomo Takeuchi
JPN
232.5kg
105.0
127.5
51.50
A
23
5. Francisco Casamayor
CUB
227.5kg
100.0
127.5
51.45
A
27
6. Stefan Leletko
POL
220.0kg
95.0
125.0
51.45
A
22
7. Boleslav Pachol
TCH
217.5kg
95.0
125.0
51.45
A
28
8. Daniel Nunez
CUB
215.0kg
92.5
122.5
51.85
B
17
9. Salvador Del Rosario
PHI
212.5kg
90.0
122.5
51.70
A
31
10.Jae Ho Im
PRK
210.0kg
90.0
120.0
51.70
B
22
11.Preecha Chiocham
THA
210.0kg
90.0
120.0
51.75
B
31
12.Narciso Oran
PAN
202.5kg
87.5
115.0
51.80
B
23
13.Precious McKenzie
GBR
200.0kg
90.0
110.0
51.80
A
40
14.Ioannis Athanasiadis
GRE
197.5kg
87.5
110.0
51.70
B
29
15.Porfirio De Leon
PUR
190.0kg
82.5
107.5
51.80
B
19
16.Gustavo Quintana
COL
185.0kg
80.0
105.0
51.50
B
22
-. Takeshi Horikoshi
JPN
NM
100.0
NM
51.65
A
33
-. Lajos Szucs
HUN
NM
95.0
NM
51.55
A
30
-. Mustafa Aly
EGY
NM
90.0
NM
51.95
B
32
-. Zygmunt Smalcerz
POL
NM
NM
NM
51.50
A
35
-. Rafael Ortega
DOM
NM
NM
NM
51.65
B
22
-. Santalazaro De La Cruz
DOM
NM
NM
NM
51.90
B
26
-. Anil Mondal
IND
NM
NM
NM
51.85
B
24
The defending champion was Zygmunt Smalcerz (POL) and he had won the 1975 World Championships, but Smalcerz failed to make a lift in the snatch and was eliminated.
He was expected to be challenged by Mohammad Nassiri (IRN), who was World Champion in 1973-74, and Aleksandr Voronin (URS), runner-up to Smalcerz at the 1975 Worlds, and the world record holder.
The leader after the snatch, however, was Gyorgy Koszegi (HUN). Voronin, the shortest lifter in the event at 144 cm (4-8½), had the best clean & jerk to equal his world record total with 242.5 kg and take the gold medal.
Koszegi took the silver while Nassiri settled for bronze. Nassiri had won a gold medal in 1968 and silver in 1972, both times as a bantamweight.