Petre Becheru

Petre Becheru
Medal record

Representing Romania
Men's weightlifting
Olympic Games
	1984 Los Angeles	-82.5 kg

Petre Becheru (born 16 May 1960 in Drăgănești-Vlașca) is a Romanian weightlifter and Olympic Champion. He won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.^[1] He also became World Champion in 1984.

References

↑ "Petre Becheru". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 30 September 2009.

Olympic champions in weightlifting – Light heavyweight

1920–1992: 75–82.5 kg, 1996: 76–83 kg, 2000–2012: 77–85 kg

1920: Ernest Cadine 1924: Charles Rigoulot 1928: El Sayed Nosseir 1932+1936: Louis Hostin 1948: Stanley Stanczyk 1952: Trofim Lomakin 1956: Tommy Kono 1960: Ireneusz Paliński 1964: Rudolf Plyukfelder 1968: Boris Selitsky 1972: Leif Jenssen 1976: Valery Shary 1980: Yurik Vardanyan 1984: Petre Becheru 1988: Israil Arsamakov 1992+1996+2000: Pyrros Dimas 2004: Giorgi Asanidze 2008: Lu Yong 2012: Adrian Zieliński

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