The men's 75 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City took place on 16 October at the Teatro de los Insurgentes. It was the eleventh appearance of the middleweight class.[1]
| Men's 75 kg at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Teatro de los Insurgentes | ||||||||||||
| Date | 16 October 1968 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 20 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning total | 475.0 kg OR | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Results edit
| Rank | Name | Country | kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor Kurentsov |  Soviet Union |
475.0 |
| 2 | Masashi Ohuchi |  Japan |
455.0 |
| 3 | Károly Bakos |  Hungary |
440.0 |
| 4 | Russell Knipp |  United States |
437.5 |
| 5 | Lee Chun-sik |  South Korea |
437.5 |
| 6 | Werner Dittrich |  East Germany |
435.0 |
| 7 | Miloslav Kolařík |  Czechoslovakia |
430.0 |
| 8 | Fred Lowe | United States |
430.0 |
| 9 | Rolf Maier |  France |
425.0 |
| 10 | Sadahiro Miwa | Japan |
425.0 |
| 11 | Albert Huser | West Germany |
410.0 |
| 12 | René Gómez |  Cuba |
407.5 |
| 13 | Luiz de Almeida |  Brazil |
407.5 |
| 14 | Leif Jenssen |  Norway |
405.0 |
| 15 | Abel López | Cuba |
405.0 |
| 16 | Rudy Monk |  Netherlands Antilles |
400.0 |
| 17 | Luis Fonseca |  Costa Rica |
355.0 |
| AC | Gioacchino Caracausi |  Italy |
240.0 |
| AC | Daniel Gevargiz |  Iran |
DNF |
| AC | Khristos Iakovou |  Greece |
DNF |
References edit
- ^ "Weightlifting at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's Middleweight". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.