Men Middleweight 75kg Weightlifting Olympic Games Moskva (URS) 1980 - 24th July, Gold Medal: Asen Zlatev, Bulgaria
Venue: Izamiolovo Palace of Sports, Moskva.
Final Ranking
Total
Snatch
Cl.&Jrk
age
1. Asen Zlatev
BUL
360.0kg WR
160.0 OR
200.0 WR
20
2. Aleksandr Pervy
URS
357.5kg
157.5
200.0 WR
19
3. Nedelcho Kolev
BUL
345.0kg
157.5
187.5
27
4. Julio Echenique
CUB
327.5kg
145.0
182.5
21
5. Dragomir Cioroslan
ROU
322.5kg
140.0
182.5
26
6. Tapio Kinnunen
FIN
320.0kg
142.5
177.5
26
7. Bertil Sollevi
SWE
310.0kg
137.5
172.5
24
8. Newton Burrowes
GBR
302.5kg
130.0
172.5
25
9. Rogelio Weatherbee
MEX
300.0kg
135.0
165.0
25
10.Vincenzo Pedicone
ITA
295.0kg
130.0
165.0
24
11.Kevin Welch-Kennedy
GBR
295.0kg
135.0
160.0
27
12.Dušan Mirković
YUG
290.0kg
127.5
162.5
27
13.Damdinsürengiin Boldbayar
MGL
282.5kg
127.5
155.0
21
14.Sampson Cosmas
NGR
255.0kg
115.0
140.0
26
-. Günter Schliwka
GDR
150.0kg
150.0
NM
24
-. Mohamed Kheir Tarabulsi
LEB
NM
NM
DNS
29
Tony Urrutia (CUB) had won the World Championships in 1977-79 and should have been the favorite, but at a meet in Mexico City in early 1980, Urrutia used his bedsheets to climb out his bedroom window, escape from the Cuban team, and defected to the United States.
He had been sixth in the Olympics as a lightweight in 1976, and would compete again in the Olympics, but in 1988-92 for the United States.
In his absence, the gold medal went to the Bulgarian world record holder Asen Zlatev, who bettered his own world record with 360.0 kg. Silver went to Soviet Ukrainian Oleksander Perviy, while bronze was won by Zlatev's teamate Nedelcho Kolev.