Weightlifting Super Heavyweight over 110kg XXI Olympic Games Montreal 1976 - 27th July, Gold Medal: Vasily Alexeev, Soviet Union
Venue: St. Michel Arena, Montreal, Quebec. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight.
Final Ranking
Total
Snatch
Cl&Jk
Weight
Gr.
age
1. Vasily Alexeev
URS
440.0kg OR
185.0
255.0 WR
156.80 OR
A
34
2. Gerd Bonk
GDR
405.0kg
170.0
235.0
151.30
A
24
3. Helmut Losch
GDR
387.5kg
165.0
222.5
110.65
A
28
4. Jan Nagy
TCH
387.5kg
160.0
227.5
137.00
A
31
5. Bruce Wilhelm
USA
387.5kg
160.0
227.5
147.30
A
31
6. Gerardo Fernandez
CUB
365.0kg
165.0
200.0
122.15
A
22
7. Robert Edmond
AUS
365.0kg
165.0
200.0
127.20
A
27
8. Jan-Olof Nolsjo
SWE
337.5kg
152.5
185.0
117.70
A
27
9. Sam Walker
USA
325.0kg
142.5
182.5
115.15
A
25
-. Jouko Leppa
FIN
NM
NM
DNS
152.15
A
33
DQ Petr Pavlasek
TCH
387.5kg
172.5
215.0
159.20
A
29
Vasily Alekseyev was the defending champion and had not been defeated since 1970.
From 1970-77 he set 79 world records, although Alekseyev was known to better the world record by the minimal amount possible, because he was given financial bonuses by the Soviet government for every world record he broke.
Alekseyev was expected to win easily, and he did, leading after the snatch by 15 kg and winning the gold medal by 35 kg over East German [Gerd Bonk]. Bonk, the 1976 and 1979 European Champion, had also been second to Alekseyev at the 1975 World Championships but was unlucky to compete in the same era and never won a major international championship in which Alekseyev competed.
Alekseyev would try to three-peat in 1980 at Moskva but was by then past his prime, failed to make a lift in the snatch, and was eliminated.
URS
GDR
TCH
USA
CUB
AUS
SWE
FIN