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VOOZH | about |
| Date | 7 August 1984 β 14:00 (B) (A) | |
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| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Albert Gersten Pavilion, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA | |
| Participants | 15 from 12 countries | |
| Format | Total of best lifts in snatch and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight. | |
The Olympic gold in Los Angeles went to Italian Norberto Oberburger, who had never seen an international podium before, but would win a bronze medal at the 1985 World Championships. Oberburger lifted 390.0 kg, which would not have won a medal at the 1984 Friendship Games, won by Soviet Leonid Taranenko, who lifted 442.5 kg, followed by his teammate who totalled 427.5 kg. Zakharevich would win this class at the 1988 Olympics, while Taranenko would win a silver medal as a super-heavyweight at the 1992 Olympics.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Kilograms | |||
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| 1 | Norberto Oberburger | π Image ITA | 390.0 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Θtefan TaΘnadi | π Image ROU | 380.0 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Guy Carlton | π Image USA | 377.5 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Frank Seipelt | π Image FRG | 367.5 | |||
| 5 | Albert Squires | π Image CAN | 365.0 | |||
| 6 | Ric Eaton | π Image USA | 352.5 | |||
| 7 | Giannis Gerontas | π Image GRE | 350.0 | |||
| 8 | Olaf Peters | π Image FRG | 347.5 | |||
| 9 | Calvin Stamp | π Image JAM | 320.0 | |||
| 10 | Abuaihuda Ozon | π Image SYR | 315.0 | |||
| John Kyazze | π Image UGA | 120.0 | ||||
| Georgios Panagiotakis | π Image GRE | 160.0 | ||||
| Gary Taylor | π Image GBR | 170.0 | ||||
| Ashraf Imam Ali | π Image EGY | 190.0 | ||||
| GΓΆran Pettersson | π Image SWE | [360.0] | 1 |
