Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics on a stamp of Japan.
VenueShibuya Public Hall
Dates11–18 October 1964
Competitors149 from 42 nations
← 1960
1968 →

The weightlifting competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. It also counted as 1964 World Weightlifting Championships.[1]

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Bantamweight
(56 kg)
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Aleksey Vakhonin
 Soviet Union
357.5 kg Imre Földi
 Hungary
355.0 kg Shiro Ichinoseki
 Japan
347.5 kg
Featherweight
(60 kg)
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Yoshinobu Miyake
 Japan
397.5 kg Isaac Berger
 United States
382.5 kg Mieczysław Nowak
 Poland
377.5 kg
Lightweight
(67.5 kg)
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Waldemar Baszanowski
 Poland
432.5 kg Vladimir Kaplunov
 Soviet Union
432.5 kg Marian Zieliński
 Poland
420.0 kg
Middleweight
(75 kg)
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Hans Zdražila
 Czechoslovakia
445.0 kg Viktor Kurentsov
 Soviet Union
440.0 kg Masushi Ouchi
 Japan
437.5 kg
Light heavyweight
(82.5 kg)
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Rudolf Plyukfelder
 Soviet Union
475.0 kg Géza Tóth
 Hungary
467.5 kg Győző Veres
 Hungary
467.5 kg
Middle heavyweight
(90 kg)
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Vladimir Golovanov
 Soviet Union
487.5 kg Louis Martin
 Great Britain
475.0 kg Ireneusz Paliński
 Poland
467.5 kg
Heavyweight
(+90 kg)
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Leonid Zhabotinsky
 Soviet Union
572.5 kg Yury Vlasov
 Soviet Union
570.0 kg Norbert Schemansky
 United States
537.5 kg

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)4307
2 Poland (POL)1034
3 Japan (JPN)1023
4 Czechoslovakia (TCH)1001
5 Hungary (HUN)0213
6 United States (USA)0112
7 Great Britain (GBR)0101
Totals (7 entries)77721

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Weightlifting at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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