Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's +90 kg
| Men's +90 kg at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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 Left-right: Reding, Zhabotinsky, Dube | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Teatro de los Insurgentes | ||||||||||||
| Date | 19 October 1968 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 17 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning total | 572.5 kg OR | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics | |
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| Men | |
| 56 kg | |
| 60 kg | |
| 67.5 kg | |
| 75 kg | |
| 82.5 kg | |
| 90 kg | |
| +90 kg | |
The men's +90 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City took place on 19 October at the Teatro de los Insurgentes. It was the eleventh appearance of the heavyweight class.[1]
Results
[edit]| Rank | Name | Country | kg |
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| 1 | Leonid Zhabotinsky |  Soviet Union | 572.5 |
| 2 | Serge Reding |  Belgium | 555.0 |
| 3 | Joseph Dube |  United States | 555.0 |
| 4 | Manfred Rieger |  East Germany | 532.5 |
| 5 | Rudolf Mang | West Germany | 525.0 |
| 6 | Mauno Lindroos |  Finland | 495.0 |
| 7 | Kalevi Lahdenranta | Finland | 492.5 |
| 8 | Don Oliver |  New Zealand | 490.0 |
| 9 | Pieter van der Kruk |  Netherlands | 487.5 |
| 10 | Terry Perdue |  Great Britain | 487.5 |
| 11 | Roger Levecq |  France | 477.5 |
| 12 | Liston Sprauve |  Virgin Islands | 467.5 |
| AC | Jean-Paul Fouletier | France | 320.0 |
| AC | Hwang Ho-dong |  South Korea | DNF |
| AC | Ove Johansson |  Sweden | DNF |
| AC | Ray Rigby |  Australia | DNF |
| AC | Ernie Pickett | United States | DNF |
References
[edit]- ^ "Weightlifting at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's Heavyweight". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
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