| Weightlifting at the Games of the XIV Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Empress Hall, Earl's Court |
| Dates | 9–11 August 1948 |
| Competitors | 120 from 30 nations |
The weightlifting competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London consisted of six weight classes, all for men only. The bantamweight division was a newly created weight class, marking the first change to the Olympic program since 1920. [1]
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bantamweight | Joseph De Pietro  United States | Julian Creus  Great Britain | Richard Tom United States |
| Featherweight | Mahmoud Fayad  Egypt | Rodney Wilkes  Trinidad and Tobago | Jafar Salmasi  Iran |
| Lightweight | Ibrahim Shams Egypt | Attia Hamouda Egypt | James Halliday Great Britain |
| Middleweight | Frank Spellman United States | Pete George United States | Kim Sung-Jip  South Korea |
| Light-heavyweight | Stanley Stanczyk United States | Harold Sakata United States | Gösta Magnusson  Sweden |
| Heavyweight | John Davis United States | Norbert Schemansky United States | Abraham Charite  Netherlands |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States (USA) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 |  Egypt (EGY) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 |  Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 |  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 |  Iran (IRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (8 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
Argentina (8)
Australia (2)
Austria (6)
Belgium (3)
Burma (1)
Canada (5)
Cuba (3)
Denmark (4) Egypt (8)
Finland (4)
France (9) Great Britain (10)
Guyana (2)
Hungary (3)
India (2) Iran (5)
Italy (1)
Jamaica (2) South Korea (8)
Mexico (3) Netherlands (2)
New Zealand (1)
Pakistan (2)
Peru (3)
Philippines (1)
South Africa (2) Sweden (4)
Switzerland (3) Trinidad and Tobago (1) United States (12) |  | ||