Weightlifting at the Friendship Games

Friendship Games

The Friendship Games or Friendship-84 was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles....

was contested at the Palace of Culture and Sports

Palace of Culture and Sports

Palace of Culture and Sports is an indoor complex for culture and sport located in Varna, Bulgaria. The complex has three sports halls - "Kongresna Hall", "Mladost Hall" and "Hall 20"...

 in Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

, Bulgaria between 16 and 19 August 1984. 80 athletes competed in 10 events (all men's individual).

World records were broken thirty times during the competition.

Medal summary

Flyweight –52 kg
Bantamweight 52–56 kg
Featherweight 56–60 kg
Lightweight 60–67.5 kg
Middleweight 67.5–75 kg
Light-heavyweight 75–82.5 kg
Middle-heavyweight 82.5–90 kg
First-heavyweight 90-100 kg
Heavyweight 100-110 kg
Super heavyweight +110 kg

Flyweight

Rank	Name	Snatch (kg)	Clean and Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
		112.5	140	252.5
		105	127.5	232.5
		95	132.5	227.5

Bantamweight

Rank	Name	Snatch (kg)	Clean and Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
		132.5	165	297.5
		132.5	132.5	295
		100	130	230

Featherweight

Rank	Name	Snatch (kg)	Clean and Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
		140	182.5	322.5
		140	175	315
		130	165	295

Lightweight

Rank	Name	Snatch (kg)	Clean and Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
		145	192.5	337.5
		145	190	335
		142.5	172.5	315

Middleweight

Rank	Name	Snatch (kg)	Clean and Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
		167.5	210	377.5
		162.5	200	362.5
		155	185	340

Light-heavyweight

Rank	Name	Snatch (kg)	Clean and Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
		182.5	222.5	405
		175	210	385
		167.5	202.5	370

Middle-heavyweight

Rank	Name	Snatch (kg)	Clean and Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
		190	232.5	422.5
		185	215	400
		170	205	375

First-heavyweight

Rank	Name	Snatch (kg)	Clean and Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
		187.5	240	427.5
		175	215	390
		170	215	385

Heavyweight

Rank	Name	Snatch (kg)	Clean and Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
		200	242.5	442.5
		197.5	230	427.5
		182.5	230	412.5

Super heavyweight

Rank	Name	Snatch (kg)	Clean and Jerk (kg)	Total (kg)
		200	265	465
		210	252.5	462.5
		190	225	415

World records broken

World records were broken thirty times. Some were beaten "off competition" after the competition ended. Often, records were broken multiple times in one category. In such case, only the final record is listed here.

Event	Name	Nationality	Result
Bantamweight – Clean & Jerk	Naim Suleimanov	Bulgaria	170.5 kg
Featherweight – Snatch	Stefan Topurov Stefan Topurov Stefan Petrov Topurov , was an weightlifter for Bulgaria.- Weightlifting achievements :* Silver medalist in Olympic Games ;* Senior world champion ;...	Bulgaria	185 kg
Featherweight – Total	Stefan Topurov Stefan Topurov Stefan Petrov Topurov , was an weightlifter for Bulgaria.- Weightlifting achievements :* Silver medalist in Olympic Games ;* Senior world champion ;...	Bulgaria	322.5 kg
Lightweight – Clean & Jerk	Aleksandar Varbanov	Bulgaria	200 kg
Middleweight – Clean & Jerk	Zdravko Stoichkov	Bulgaria	211 kg
Middleweight – Total	Zdravko Stoichkov	Bulgaria	377.5 kg
Light-heavyweight – Snatch	Yurik Vardanian Yurik Vardanian Yurik Vardanian is a former Olympic weightlifter for the USSR. He trained at Lokomotiv in Leninakan, Armenia.Vardanian won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics, becoming the world's first weightlifter to achieve a 400 kilogram total in the 82.5 kg weight category...	Soviet Union	182.5 kg
Light-heavyweight – Clean & Jerk	Yurik Vardanian Yurik Vardanian Yurik Vardanian is a former Olympic weightlifter for the USSR. He trained at Lokomotiv in Leninakan, Armenia.Vardanian won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics, becoming the world's first weightlifter to achieve a 400 kilogram total in the 82.5 kg weight category...	Soviet Union	225 kg
Light-heavyweight – Total	Yurik Vardanian Yurik Vardanian Yurik Vardanian is a former Olympic weightlifter for the USSR. He trained at Lokomotiv in Leninakan, Armenia.Vardanian won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics, becoming the world's first weightlifter to achieve a 400 kilogram total in the 82.5 kg weight category...	Soviet Union	405 kg
Middle-heavyweight – Clean & Jerk	Viktor Solodov	Soviet Union	233 kg
Middle-heavyweight – Total	Viktor Solodov	Soviet Union	422.5 kg
First-heavyweight – Clean & Jerk	Pavel Kuznetsov Pavel Kuznetsov Pavel Varfolomevich Kusnetsov was a Russian painter and graphic artist.He studied at Saratov at Bogolyubov Art School , then Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and for a year in Paris . His early paintings were exhibited by the Mir Iskusstva group, and he was closely associated...	Soviet Union	241.5 kg
Heavyweight – Snatch	Yury Zakharevitch Yury Zakharevitch Yury Ivanovich Zakharevitch was an Olympic weightlifter for the Soviet Union. He trained at Dynamo in Dimitrovgrad. Yury competed in the Middle-Heavyweight, Sub-Heavyweight and Heavyweight weight classes during his career....	Soviet Union	200.5 kg
Heavyweight – Total	Leonid Taranenko Leonid Taranenko Leonid Arkadevich Taranenko is a former Soviet/Belarusian weightlifter.- Weightlifting career :Taranenko trained at VSS Uradzhai in Minsk. His first major success took place at the 1980 Olympics, when, competing for the USSR, he won the gold medal in the 110 kilogram class with a 422.5 kg total...	Soviet Union	442.5 kg
Super heavyweight – Clean & Jerk	Anatoly Pisarenko Anatoly Pisarenko TotalTotalTotalTotalAnatoly Grigor'evich Pisarenko was an Olympic weightlifter for the USSR...	Soviet Union	265 kg
Super heavyweight – Total	Anatoly Pisarenko Anatoly Pisarenko TotalTotalTotalTotalAnatoly Grigor'evich Pisarenko was an Olympic weightlifter for the USSR...	Soviet Union	465 kg

Medal table

1	Soviet Union	5	5	0	10
2	Bulgaria	5	3	2	10
3	Hungary	0	2	2	4
4	Poland	0	0	3	3
5	Cuba	0	0	1	1
5	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
5	North Korea	0	0	1	1
Total		10	10	10	30