Men Featherweight 52kg Weightlifting Olympic Games Moskva (URS) 1980 - 20th July, Gold Medal: Kanybek Osmonaliyev, Soviet Union
Venue: Izamiolovo Palace of Sports, Moskva.
Final Ranking
Total
Snatch
Cl.&Jrk
age
1. Kanybek Osmonaliyev
URS
245.0kg OR
107.5
137.5 =OR
26
2. Ho Bong-Chol
PRK
245.0kg OR
110.0 OR
135.0
20
3. Han Gyong-Si
PRK
245.0kg OR
110.0 OR
135.0
26
4. Béla Oláh
HUN
245.0kg OR
110.0 OR
135.0
24
5. Stefan Leletko
POL
240.0kg
105.0
135.0
26
6. Ferenc Hornyák
HUN
237.5kg
107.5
130.0
22
7. Francisco Casamayor
CUB
232.5kg
102.5
130.0
31
8. Adyaagiin Jügdernamjil
MGL
215.0kg
97.5
117.5
27
9. Gaetano Tosto
ITA
215.0kg
95.0
120.0
32
10.Ioannis Katsaidonis
GRE
207.5kg
95.0
112.5
23
11.Humberto Fuentes
VEN
207.5kg
90.0
117.5
18
12.Giuseppe Chiapparo
BEL
200.0kg
90.0
110.0
22
13.Raúl Diniz
POR
197.5kg
82.5
115.0
29
14.Imade Kadro
SYR
190.0kg
85.0
105.0
21
15.Almabruk Mahmud Mahmud
LBA
190.0kg
85.0
105.0
16.Durval de Moraes
BRA
187.5kg
80.0
107.5
20
-. Karunagaran Ekambaram
IND
90.0kg
90.0
NM
26
-. Dorjiin Enkhbaatar
MGL
90.0kg
90.0
NM
26
This was the closest competition in Olympic weightlifting history with the first four lifters all registering the same weight.
The gold medal went to Kanybek Osmonaliyev (URS) who had won the 1978-79 World Championships on bodyweight, as Osmonaliyev was 0.2 kg lighter than Ho Bong-Chol (PRK).
Ho's teammate Han Gyong-Si and Bela Olah (HUN) had both weighed the same at 52.0 kg (0.1 kg more than Ho) prior to the competition so they were re-weighed after the event ended, and Han was awarded the bronze medal as by then he weighed 0.1 kg less than Olah. So in this case, Han Gyong-Si became an Olympic medalist because he sweated more than the other man.