Weightlifting at the 1979 Pan American Games

Weightlifting at the 1979 Pan American Games
«1975 1983»

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Francisco Casamayor Fals  Cuba	José Díaz López  Panama	Samuel Alexis Vázquez  Venezuela
56 kg	Daniel Núñez  Cuba	Lázaro de la Cruz  Dominican Republic	Francisco Benítez  Mexico
60 kg	Víctor Pérez  Cuba	Phillip Sanderson  United States	Ángel García  Dominican Republic
67.5 kg	Mario Ricardo Villalobos  Cuba	David Jones  United States	Garry Bratty  Canada
75 kg	Roberto Urrutia  Cuba	Eric Rogers  Canada	Rogelio Weatherbee  Mexico
82.5 kg	Julio Echenique González  Cuba	Thomas Hirtz  United States	Ricardo Sequera  Venezuela
90 kg	Daniel Zayas Díaz  Cuba	Terry Hadlow  Canada	Nelson Carvalho  Brazil
100 kg	Alberto Blanco Fernández  Cuba	Guy Carlton  United States	Jacques Oliger  Chile
110 kg	Mark Cameron  United States	Javier González  Cuba	Charles Nootens  United States
+110 kg	Thomas Stock  United States	Marc Cardinal  Canada	Jorge Gadala María  El Salvador

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	8	1	0	9
2	United States	2	4	1	7
3	Canada	0	3	1	4
4	Dominican Republic	0	1	1	2
5	Panama	0	1	0	1
6	Mexico	0	0	2	2
	Venezuela	0	0	2	2
8	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Chile	0	0	1	1
	El Salvador	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		10	10	10	30