| 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 | |
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