Men Lightweight 67.5kg Weightlifting XXI Olympic Games Montreal 1976 - 21th July, Gold Medal: Piotr Korol, Soviet Union
Venue: St. Michel Arena, Montreal, Quebec. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight.
Final Ranking
Total
Snatch
Cl&Jk
Weight
Gr.
age
1. Piotr Korol
URS
305.0kg
135.0 =OR
170.0
67.10
A
35
2. Daniel Senet
FRA
300.0kg
135.0 =OR
165.0
67.00
A
23
3. Kazimierz Czarnecki
POL
295.0kg
130.0
165.0
66.70
A
28
4. Gunter Ambrass
GDR
295.0kg
125.0
170.0
67.10
A
20
5. Yatsuo Shimaya
JPN
292.5kg
127.5
165.0
66.65
A
22
6. Roberto Urrutia
CUB
292.5kg
130.0
162.5
67.40
A
18
7. Werner Schraut
FRG
290.0kg
127.5
162.5
67.35
A
35
8. Roland Chavigny
FRA
285.0kg
130.0
155.0
67.20
B
25
9. Kevin Welch
GBR
282.5kg
127.5
155.0
67.15
A
23
10.Walter Legel
AUT
272.5kg
120.0
152.5
66.85
B
36
11.Dan Cantore
USA
272.5kg
120.0
152.5
67.15
B
29
12.Kemal Baskir
TUR
270.0kg
125.0
145.0
66.85
B
24
13.Gottfried Langhaler
AUT
270.0kg
117.5
152.5
67.15
B
23
14.Francisco Mateos
ESP
270.0kg
120.0
150.0
67.20
B
29
15.Alan Winterbourne
GBR
267.5kg
115.0
152.5
66.75
B
29
16.Julio Martinez
PUR
260.0kg
117.5
142.5
67.05
B
27
17.Warino Lestanto
INA
255.0kg
110.0
145.0
66.45
B
23
18.Sergio Moreno
NCA
217.5kg
92.5
125.0
63.20
B
26
-. Eleftheris Stefanoudakis
GRE
NM
120.0
NM
67.15
A
27
-. Yusaku Ono
JPN
NM
125.0
NM
67.50
A
29
-. Dusan Drska
TCH
NM
127.5
NM
66.65
A
23
-. Philip Sue
NZL
NM
NM
-
67.35
B
29
DQ Zbignew Kaczmarek
POL
307.5kg
135.0
172.5
67.10
A
29
Petro Korol (URS) had won the 1974-75 World Championships, with silver both years going to Zbigniew Kaczmarek (POL), the 1970-71 World Champion, who came to Montreal having already won the 1976 European Championships and the two were expected to fight it out for gold.
They were tied after the snatch at 135.0 kg, along with Daniel Senet (FRA). Kaczmarek then lifted 172.5 kg in the clean & jerk and the gold medal was seemingly his.
However, he tested positive in doping controls for an anabolic steroid, the exact identity of which was never announced, and he was disqualified.
Korol was advanced to the gold medal with Senet winning silver, and the bronze going to Kaczmarek's teammate Kazimierz Czarnecki, who was unknown internationally.
Kaczmarek continued to compete through the 1980 Olympics, where he placed sixth in this class, but in 1982 he and his family defected to West Germany.