Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Paralympics

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	Paralympic Weightlifting
Competitors	58 from 18 nations
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Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Paralympics consisted of eleven events for men.^[1]

Participating nations

There were 58 male competitors representing 18 nations.^[2]

There were 18 medal winners representing nine nations.^[3]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden (SWE)	4	2	0	6
2	France (FRA)	3	4	3	10
3	Israel (ISR)	2	0	1	3
4	Poland (POL)	1	2	2	5
5	Indonesia (INA)	1	0	0	1
6	United States (USA)	0	2	0	2
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
8	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
8	Iceland (ISL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		11	10	10	31

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's light-featherweight -51 kg paraplegic details	Shmuel Haimovitz Israel	Eugeniusz Skarupa Poland	Jean-Michel Barberane France
Men's featherweight -57 kg amputee details	R. S. Arlen Indonesia	None	None
Men's featherweight -57 kg paraplegic details	Benny Nilsson Sweden	Joseph Ponnier France	Zdzislaw Kolodziej Poland
Men's lightweight -65 kg amputee details	Chorrihons France	B. Dersigneri France	Barry Kalms Australia
Men's lightweight -65 kg paraplegic details	Jerzy Kuskowski Poland	Charles Roedelbronn United States	Bogdan Lis Poland
Men's middleweight -75 kg amputee details	Bernard Barberet France	Kurt Henningsson Sweden	Jonas Oskarson Iceland
Men's middleweight -75 kg paraplegic details	Jean Grandsire France	Edward Coyle United States	Brian McNicholl Australia
Men's light-heavyweight -85 kg amputee details	Stig Soederborg Sweden	J. Chauvel France	Marcel Chollot Belgium
Men's light-heavyweight -85 kg paraplegic details	Abraham Strauch Israel	Ryszard Tomaszewski Poland	Gerard Houdmond France
Men's heavyweight +85 kg amputee details	Arne Karlsson Sweden	Nils Karreberg Sweden	J. L. Dury France
Men's heavyweight +85 kg paraplegic details	Bengt Lindberg Sweden	N. Clemente France	Shalom Dlugatch Israel