1963 World Weightlifting Championships

1963 Men's World Championships

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The 1963 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Stockholm, Sweden from September 7 to September 13, 1963. There were 134 men in action from 32 nations.

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight 56 kg	Aleksey Vakhonin   Soviet Union	345.0 kg	Hiroshi Fukuda   Japan	340.0 kg	Shiro Ichinoseki   Japan	330.0 kg
Featherweight 60 kg	Yoshinobu Miyake   Japan	375.0 kg	Isaac Berger   United States	367.5 kg	Imre Földi   Hungary	365.0 kg
Lightweight 67.5 kg	Marian Zieliński   Poland	417.5 kg	Waldemar Baszanowski   Poland	410.0 kg	Vladimir Kaplunov   Soviet Union	410.0 kg
Middleweight 75 kg	Aleksandr Kurynov   Soviet Union	437.5 kg	Mihály Huszka   Hungary	437.5 kg	Hans Zdražila   Czechoslovakia	422.5 kg
Light heavyweight 82.5 kg	Győző Veres   Hungary	477.5 kg	Rudolf Plyukfelder   Soviet Union	467.5 kg	Géza Tóth   Hungary	450.0 kg
Middle heavyweight 90 kg	Louis Martin   Great Britain	480.0 kg	Ireneusz Paliński   Poland	475.0 kg	Eduard Brovko   Soviet Union	470.0 kg
Heavyweight +90 kg	Yury Vlasov   Soviet Union	557.5 kg	Norbert Schemansky   United States	537.5 kg	Leonid Zhabotinsky   Soviet Union	527.5 kg

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	1	3	7
2	Poland	1	2	0	3
3	Hungary	1	1	2	4
4	Japan	1	1	1	3
5	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
6	United States	0	2	0	2
7	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

References

• Results (Sport 123)
• Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• International Weightlifting Federation