Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 90 kg

Men's 90 kg at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Teatro de los Insurgentes
Date	18 October 1968
Competitors	29 from 22 nations
Winning total	517.5 kg OR
Medalists
Kaarlo Kangasniemi  Finland Jaan Talts  Soviet Union Marek Gołąb  Poland
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Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics
	Men
	56 kg
	60 kg
	67.5 kg
	75 kg
	82.5 kg
	90 kg
	+90 kg
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The men's 90 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City took place on 18 October at the Teatro de los Insurgentes. It was the fifth appearance of the middle heavyweight class.^[1]

Results

Rank	Name	Country	kg
1	Kaarlo Kangasniemi	Finland	517.5
2	Jaan Talts	Soviet Union	507.5
3	Marek Gołąb	Poland	495.0
4	Bo Johansson	Sweden	492.5
5	Jaakko Kailajärvi	Finland	485.0
6	Árpád Nemessányi	Hungary	482.5
7	Phil Grippaldi	United States	477.5
8	Vítězslav Országh	Czechoslovakia	462.5
9	Bart Bartholomew	United States	457.5
10	Pierre Gourrier	France	455.0
11	Bakr Bassam	Egypt	455.0
12	Yun Seog-won	South Korea	455.0
13	Jean-Pierre Van Lerberghe	Belgium	447.5
14	Stergios Tsoukas	Greece	435.0
15	Efrain Gusquiza	Peru	430.0
16	Andrés Martínez	Cuba	427.5
17	Gaber Hafez	Egypt	425.0
18	Cheng Sheng-teh	Chinese Taipei	425.0
19	Leong Chim Seong	Malaysia	422.5
20	Sylvanus Blackman	Great Britain	420.0
21	Paul Bjarnason	Canada	407.5
22	Fernando Torres	Puerto Rico	405.0
23	Fernando Esquivel	Costa Rica	370.0
AC	Oscar Nobua	Argentina	125.0
AC	Óskar Sigurpálsson	Iceland	145.0
AC	Louis Martin	Great Britain	305.0
AC	Juan Benavides	Cuba	DNF
AC	Géza Tóth	Hungary	DNF
AC	Alfred Steiner	France	DNF

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