Weightlifting at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Gersten Pavilion
Dates	29 July - 8 August 1984
Competitors	186 from 48 nations
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Weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics
	52 kg
	56 kg
	60 kg
	67.5 kg
	75 kg
	82.5 kg
	90 kg
	100 kg
	110 kg
	+110 kg
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The weightlifting competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of ten weight classes. The 1984 Summer Olympics boycott meant that the most dominant forces in weightlifting at the time, the USSR and Bulgaria, did not take part. This left the field wide open for others.^[1]

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight –52 kg details	Zeng Guoqiang  China	Zhou Peishun  China	Kazushito Manabe  Japan
Bantamweight 52–56 kg details	Wu Shude  China	Lai Runming  China	Masahiro Kotaka  Japan
Featherweight 56–60 kg details	Chen Weiqiang  China	Gelu Radu  Romania	Tsai Wen-yee  Chinese Taipei
Lightweight 60–67.5 kg details	Yao Jingyuan  China	Andrei Socaci  Romania	Jouni Grönman  Finland
Middleweight 67.5–75 kg details	Karl-Heinz Radschinsky  West Germany	Jacques Demers  Canada	Dragomir Cioroslan  Romania
Light-heavyweight 75–82.5 kg details	Petre Becheru  Romania	Robert Kabbas  Australia	Ryoji Isaoka  Japan
Middle-heavyweight 82.5–90 kg details	Nicu Vlad  Romania	Petre Dumitru  Romania	Peter Geddes  Great Britain
First-heavyweight 90–100 kg details	Rolf Milser  West Germany	Vasile Groapa  Romania	Pekka Niemi  Finland
Heavyweight 100–110 kg details	Norberto Oberburger  Italy	Stefan Tasnadi  Romania	Guy Carlton  United States
Super heavyweight +110 kg details	Dean Lukin  Australia	Mario Martinez  United States	Manfred Nerlinger  West Germany

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	4	2	0	6
2	Romania (ROU)	2	5	1	8
3	West Germany (FRG)	2	0	1	3
4	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
5	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
6	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
7	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
8	Japan (JPN)	0	0	3	3
9	Finland (FIN)	0	0	2	2
10	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		10	10	10	30