Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 60 kg

Men's 60 kg at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Weightlifting Gymnasium
Date	20 September
Competitors	17 from 14 nations
Medalists
Naim Süleymanoğlu  Turkey Stefan Topurov  Bulgaria Ye Huanming  China

Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics
	Men
	52 kg
	56 kg
	60 kg
	67.5 kg
	75 kg
	82.5 kg
	90 kg
	100 kg
	110 kg
	+110 kg

The men's 60 kg weightlifting event was one of the events at the weightlifting competition of the 1988 Summer Olympics, limiting competitors to a maximum of 60 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on September 20, and participants were divided in two groups.

Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted.

Naim Süleymanoğlu, who previously competed for Bulgaria under the name Naum Shalamanov, competed for the first time in the Olympics as a Turkish citizen after Bulgarian government received over a million US dollars to allow him compete.^[1]

Results

Rank	Athlete	Group	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
				1	2	3	Result	1	2	3	Result
	Naim Süleymanoğlu (TUR)	A	59.70	145	150.5	152.5	152.5	175	188.5	190	190	342.5 WR,OR
	Stefan Topurov (BUL)	A	59.70	137.5	142.5	142.5	137.5	165	175	—	175	312.5
	Ye Huanming (CHN)	A	59.70	127.5	132.5	132.5	127.5	155	160	162.5	160	287.5
4	Min Joon-ki (KOR)	A	59.60	120	125	127.5	125	155	160	162.5	155	280
5	Yosuke Muraki (JPN)	A	59.30	120	125	127.5	127.5	150	150	165	150	277.5
6	Giannis Sidiropoulos (GRE)	B	59.45	115	115	120	120	145	145	150	145	265
7	Kazushige Oguri (JPN)	A	59.60	117.5	117.5	122.5	117.5	137.5	142.5	150	142.5	260
8	Tolentino Murillo (COL)	B	59.75	115	120	125	120	135	140	140	140	260
9	John Salazar (COL)	B	59.80	105	110	112.5	110	142.5	150	150	150	260
10	Angel Arroyo (PUR)	B	59.70	95	100	105	100	130	135	140	135	235
11	Juma Abudu (KEN)	B	59.80	80	90	90	90	110	110	115	110	200
—	Wang Caixi (CHN)	A	59.35	125	130	130	125	157.5	157.5	157.5	—	—
—	Joe Garcia (ECU)	B	59.40	105	105	105	105	140	140	140	—	—
—	Lionel Gondran (FRA)	B	59.75	110	115	117.5	115	140	140	140	—	—
—	Dionisio Muñoz (ESP)	A	59.30	120	120	122.5	—	—	—	—	—	—
—	Attila Czanka (ROU)	A	59.80	130	130	130	—	—	—	—	—	—
—	Catur Mei Studi (INA)	B	59.65	110	110	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

References

• The Official Report of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad Seoul 1988 Volume Two (PDF). p. 643.