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Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's +110 kg

weightlifting at the Olympics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ57928597 ↗
Source-derived summary

The men's +110 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal took place on 27 July at the St. Michel Arena. It was the second appearance of the super heavyweight class.

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The public source identifies “Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's +110 kg” as weightlifting at the Olympics. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Weightlifting, Summer and Olympics.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Weightlifting, Summer and Olympics providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q57928597. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's +110 kg” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.