Weightlifting Men's Super-Heavyweight Medalists

Games: 11 games in 10 countries
First Held: 1972 Summer Games
Last Held: 2012 Summer Games

Participants: 122 from 53 countries
Top Athlete Medalist(s): Manfred Nerlinger (3 medals)
Top Country Medalist(s): 6 countries with 4 medals

Medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2012	Behdad Salimi	Sajjad Anoushiravani	Ruslan Albegov
2008	Matthias Steiner	Yevgeny Chigishev	Viktors Ščerbatihs
2004	Hossein Reza Zadeh	Viktors Ščerbatihs	Veliçko Çolakov
2000	Hossein Reza Zadeh	Ronny Weller	Andrey Chemerkin
1996	Andrey Chemerkin	Ronny Weller	Stefan Botev Khristov
1992	Aleksandr Kurlovich	Leonid Taranenko	Manfred Nerlinger
1988	Aleksandr Kurlovich	Manfred Nerlinger	Martin Zawieja
1984	Dean Lukin	Mario Martinez	Manfred Nerlinger
1980	Sultan Rakhmanov	Jürgen Heuser	Tadeusz Rutkowski
1976	Vasily Alekseyev	Gerd Bonk	Helmut Losch
1972	Vasily Alekseyev	Rudolf Mang	Gerd Bonk

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