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Detailed Information
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Competition Dates
20 to 30 Jul 1996 (Day off on 25 Jul)
Venue
Georgia World Congress Center, Hall E
Capacity: 5,000
Events/Disciplines
10 Events | |
Weight Classes | |
54kg | 83kg |
59kg | 91kg |
64kg | 99kg |
70kg | 108kg |
76kg | +108kg |
Number of Athletes
240 men
Changes Since Barcelona
Changed: Weight classes from 52kg, 56kg, 60kg, 67.5kg, 75kg, 82.5kg, 90kg, 100kg, 110kg and +110kg
Qualifications
Top 34 nations from the 1995 World Championships qualified three to 10 athletes each, depending on each country’s final ranking.
Competition Format
Each lifter competes in both the snatch and the clean and jerk and the weights are added to determine placing. One bodyweight category will be contested each day.
Olympic Debut
1896
Olympic History
Since becoming an Olympic sport in 1896, the number of events has been reduced from five to two — snatch and clean and jerk — but the number of weight classes has increased. Naim SÜLEYMANOGLU, a featherweight, is considered one of the greatest lifters, having set his first world record at age 14. He won the gold medal at the 1988 Games in Seoul, lifting more than the winner of the next weight class. SÜLEYMANOGLU won the gold medal again in 1992.
| More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined. |