Men Heavyweight 110kg Weightlifting Olympic Games Moskva (URS) 1980 - 29th July, Gold Medal: Leonid Taranenko, Soviet Union
Venue: Izamiolovo Palace of Sports, Moskva.
Final Ranking
Total
Snatch
Cl.&Jrk
age
1. Leonid Taranenko
URS
422.5kg WR
182.5
240.0 WR
24
2. Valentin Khristov
BUL
405.0kg
185.0 OR
220.0
24
3. György Szalai
HUN
390.0kg
172.5
217.5
29
4. Leif Nilsson
SWE
380.0kg
167.5
212.5
27
5. Vinzenz Hörtnagl
AUT
372.5kg
170.0
202.5
32
6. Ştefan Taşnadi
ROU
360.0kg
165.0
195.0
27
7. Don Mitchell
AUS
352.5kg
162.5
190.0
25
8. Dimitrios Zarzavatsidis
GRE
347.5kg
155.0
192.5
24
9. Viktor Sirkiä
FIN
342.5kg
150.0
192.5
31
10.Andrzej Drzewiecki
GBR
320.0kg
140.0
180.0
34
11.Ali Abdul Kader Maneer
IRQ
300.0kg
135.0
165.0
12.Mario Rodríguez
DOM
287.5kg
125.0
162.5
-. Pavel Khek
TCH
NM
NM
DNS
22
This class had been held at the Olympics since 1972 but was somewhat different in 1980, with the addition of the heavyweight 100 kg class.
The favorites were Leonid Taranenko (URS) and Valentin Khristov (BUL). At Montreal in 1976, Khristov had seemingly won the gold medal until he failed a doping test after the competition and was disqualified.
He took the lead in Moskva with a snatch of 185.0 kg, leading Taranenko by 2.5 kg, but Taranenko stunned with a world record clean & jerk of 240.0 kg, 20.0 kg more than Khristov, and won the gold medal with world record total of 422.5 kg as Khristov hung on for silver. Taranenko would return to the Olympics in 1992 as a super-heavyweight and won a silver medal.