1972 Olympics: Weightlifting
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Class | ||
| Flyweight (-114 1/2 lb) | Zymunt Smalcerz, POL | 337.5 |
| Lajos Szuecs, HUN | 330.0 | |
| Sandor Holczreiter, HUN | 327.5 | |
| Bantamweight (-123 1/2 lb) | Imre Földi, HUN | 377.5 |
| Mohammed Nassiri, IRN | 370.0 | |
| Gennadi Chetin, URS | 367.5 | |
| Featherweight (-132 1/4 lb) | Norair Nurikyan, BUL | 402.5 |
| Dito Shanidze, URS | 400.0 | |
| Janos Benedek, HUN | 390.0 | |
| Lightweight (-148 3/4 lb) | Mukharbi Kirzhinov, URS | 460.0 |
| Mladen Koutchev, BUL | 450.0 | |
| Zbigniev Kaczmarek, POL | 437.5 | |
| Middleweight (-165 1/2 lb) | Yordan Bikov, BUL | 485.0 |
| Mohammed Trabulsi, LIB | 472.5 | |
| Anselmo Silvino, ITA | 470.0 | |
| Light-Heavyweight (-182 lb) | Leif Jensen, NOR | 507.5 |
| Norbert Ozimek, POL | 497.5 | |
| György Horvath, HUN | 495.0 | |
| Middle-Heavyweight (-198 1/2 lb) | Andon Nikolov, BUL | 525.0 |
| Atanas Chopov, BUL | 517.5 | |
| Hans Bettembourg, SWE | 512.5 | |
| Heavyweight (-242 1/2 lb) | Jan Talts, URS | 580.0 |
| Alexander Kraitchev, BUL | 562.5 | |
| Stefan Grützner, GDR | 555.0 | |
| Super-Heavyweight (+242 1/2 lb) | Vasily Alexeyev, URS | 640.0 |
| Rudolf Mang, FRG | 610.0 | |
| Gerd Bonk, GDR | 572.5 |
