| Weightlifting at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Royal Exhibition Building |
| Dates | 23–26 November 1956 |
| Competitors | 105 from 34 nations |
The weightlifting competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. [1]
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bantamweight | Charles Vinci  United States | Vladimir Stogov  Soviet Union | Mahmoud Namjoo  Iran |
| Featherweight | Isaac Berger United States | Yevgeni Minaev Soviet Union | Marian Zieliński  Poland |
| Lightweight | Igor Rybak Soviet Union | Ravil Khabutdinov Soviet Union | Kim Chang-Hee  South Korea |
| Middleweight | Fyodor Bogdanovsky Soviet Union | Pete George United States | Ermanno Pignatti  Italy |
| Light-heavyweight | Tommy Kono United States | Vasili Stepanov Soviet Union | James George United States |
| Middle-heavyweight | Arkadi Vorobyev Soviet Union | David Sheppard United States | Jean Debuf  France |
| Heavyweight | Paul Anderson United States | Humberto Selvetti  Argentina | Alberto Pigaiani Italy |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States (USA) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 |  Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 |  Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 |  Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 |  France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Iran (IRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (8 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
Argentina (2)
Australia (7)
Austria (2)
Belgium (1)
Brazil (2)
Bulgaria (2)
Burma (3)
Canada (3)
Republic of China (3)
Colombia (2)
Czechoslovakia (1)
Finland (1) France (3)
United Team of Germany (2)
Great Britain (5)
Guyana (2)
India (3)
Indonesia (1) Iran (7) Italy (4)
Japan (5) South Korea (6)
Malaya (3)
Mexico (1)
New Zealand (1)
Pakistan (3)
Philippines (2) Poland (5)
Singapore (3)
South Africa (3) Soviet Union (7)
Sweden (1)
Trinidad and Tobago (2) United States (7)
