Athens 2004 Official Report - LA84 Foundation
Athens 2004 Official Report - LA84 Foundation
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Men's 69kg<br />
In the men's 69kg, Guozheng ZHANG (CHN),<br />
first in the World Championships and holder of<br />
the world record in clean and jerk (197,5kg),<br />
won the gold medal. Korea's Bae Young LEE,<br />
who appeared to be a threat to ZHANG, as he<br />
had a very high entry total (345kg), took the<br />
silver Turan MIRZAYEV (AZE), the best<br />
weightlifter in his country and third in<br />
Vancouver came fourth. ZHANG, LEE and<br />
MIPZAYEF competed in the same category in<br />
Sydney, but were far from the medals. Nikolay<br />
PECHALOV from Croatia took the bronze.<br />
Siarhei LAURENAU (BLR), who was third in<br />
2000, ended sixth in the ATHENS <strong>2004</strong> Games.<br />
Bulgaria's Galabin BOEVSKI and Georgi<br />
MARKOV, winners of the gold and silver<br />
medals in Sydney, were the major absentees as<br />
they served lengthy bans for violating antidoping<br />
rules.<br />
Men's 77kg<br />
Turkey's Taner SAGIR broke two Olympic<br />
records to win the Men's 77kg class and his<br />
country's third gold medal of the competition.<br />
The 19-year-old set records in the snatch<br />
(172kg) and the total (375kg) to finish ahead of<br />
two world record holders, Sergey FILIMONOV<br />
(KAZ) and Russia's Oleg PEREPET CHENOV,<br />
who took the silver and bronze medals. SAGIR,<br />
the current European champion, also improved<br />
on his three junior world records. The shock of<br />
the event was the failure of double Olympic<br />
Champion Xugang ZHAN of China to finish<br />
after failing all three snatch attempts. Greece's<br />
Viktor MITROU, silver medallist in Sydney to<br />
ZHAN, finished fifth on bodyweight diffference<br />
behind Turkey's Reyhan ARABACIOGLU.<br />
Men's 69kg<br />
Gold<br />
Silver<br />
Bronze<br />
4th<br />
5th<br />
6th<br />
7th<br />
<strong>Official</strong> <strong>Report</strong> of the XXVIII Olympiad<br />
8th<br />
Name<br />
ZHANG Guozheng<br />
LEE Bae Young<br />
PECHALOV Nikolay<br />
MIRZAYEV Turan<br />
DABAYA TIENTCHEU<br />
Vencelas<br />
LAURENAU Siarhei<br />
ERNAULT Romuald<br />
PETER Yukio<br />
NOC<br />
CHN<br />
KOR<br />
CRO<br />
AZE<br />
CMR<br />
BLR<br />
FRA<br />
NRU<br />
Men's 85kg<br />
Name<br />
NOC<br />
Gold ASANIDZE George GEO<br />
Silver RYBAKOU Andrei BLR<br />
Bronze DIMAS Pyrros<br />
GRE<br />
4th MARKOULAS Georgios GRE<br />
5th YUAN Aijun<br />
CHN<br />
6th ANISHCHANKA Aliaksandr BLR<br />
7th MARTI ROSYAN Tigran ARM<br />
8th SONG Jong Shik<br />
KOR<br />
Score<br />
347.5<br />
342.5<br />
337.5<br />
332.5<br />
327.5<br />
317.5<br />
307.5<br />
302.5<br />
Score<br />
382.5<br />
380.0<br />
377.5<br />
372.5<br />
372.5<br />
370.0<br />
367.5<br />
360.0<br />
Men's 85kg<br />
Greece's Pyrros DIMAS missed out on his<br />
fourth consecutive gold medal, but won bronze,<br />
and now has four medals from four Olympic<br />
Games, a feat achieved by only three other<br />
weightlifters - Norbert SCHEMANSKY (USA),<br />
Ronny WELLER (GER) and Nikolay<br />
PECHALOV of Croatia, who had joined the<br />
elite group only three days earlier, when he<br />
won bronze in the men's 69kg. In 2000, three<br />
athletes lifted the same weight (390kg), but the<br />
Greek won gold on bodyweight difference<br />
from Mark HUSTER (GER), now a television<br />
commentator, and George ASANIDZE (GEO).<br />
This time it was ASANIDZE who won the gold,<br />
lifting 382,5kg. The silver went to Andrei<br />
RYBAKOU from Belarus with 380kg. The<br />
22-year-old Georgios MARKOULAS, seen as<br />
Greece's successor to DIMAS, as he has won<br />
silver in the Clean and Jerk in Kiev's European<br />
Championships, ended fourth. Though Aijun<br />
YUAN (CHN) was a strong contester, having<br />
won silver in the world championships in<br />
Vancouver last November; he managed to win<br />
the fifth place.<br />
Men's 94kg<br />
There was despair in the men's 94kg category,<br />
when Akakios KAKIASVILIS (GRE), defending<br />
his Olympic title and seeking his fourth<br />
consecutive gold medal, failed five of his six lifts<br />
and did not finish. At 35, he is unlikely to be seen<br />
again in top-level competition, despite an<br />
emotional post-event interview, in which he<br />
said he would continue competing, and might<br />
even be a candidate for Beijing. His main<br />
opponent, the 24-year-old Milen DOBREV<br />
(BUL), the current world and European<br />
champion won the gold, lifting 407,5kg.<br />
The 19-year-old Khadjimourad AKKAEV (RUS)<br />
rose to the occasion and won the silver<br />
The bronze was awarded to Eduard TJUKIN,<br />
Russia's second competitor.<br />
Men's 77kg<br />
Name<br />
Gold SAGIR Taner<br />
Silver FILIMONOV Sergey<br />
Bronze PEREPETCHENOV<br />
Oleg<br />
4th<br />
5th<br />
6th<br />
7th<br />
8th<br />
ARABACIOGLU<br />
Reyhan<br />
MITROU Viktor<br />
BARKHAH<br />
Mohammad Hossein<br />
FERI Attila<br />
STOITSOV Ivan<br />
Men's 94kg<br />
Name<br />
Gold DOBREV Milen<br />
Silver AKKAEV Khadjimourad<br />
Bronze TJUKIN Eduard<br />
4th NASIRINIA Shahin<br />
5th LUNA Julio<br />
6th YILMAZ Hakan<br />
7th AKHMETOV Bakhyt<br />
8th MUSHYK Anatoliy<br />
NOC<br />
TUR<br />
KAZ<br />
RUS<br />
TUR<br />
GRE<br />
IRI<br />
HUN<br />
BUL<br />
Score<br />
375.0<br />
372.5<br />
365.0<br />
360.0<br />
360.0<br />
357.5<br />
355.0<br />
355.0<br />
NOC Score<br />
BUL<br />
RUS<br />
RUS<br />
IRI<br />
VEN<br />
TUR<br />
KAZ<br />
UKR<br />
407.5<br />
405.0<br />
397.5<br />
392.5<br />
390.0<br />
390.0<br />
390.0<br />
387.5
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