Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Palazzetto dello Sport
Dates	7–10 September 1960
Competitors	172 from 53 nations
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The weightlifting competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. ^[1]

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Charles Vinci   United States	Yoshinobu Miyake   Japan	Esmaeil Elmkhah   Iran
60 kg details	Yevgeny Minayev   Soviet Union	Isaac Berger   United States	Sebastiano Mannironi   Italy
67.5 kg details	Viktor Bushuev   Soviet Union	Tan Howe Liang   Singapore	Abdul-Wahid Aziz   Iraq
75 kg details	Aleksandr Kurynov   Soviet Union	Tommy Kono   United States	Győző Veres   Hungary
82.5 kg details	Ireneusz Paliński   Poland	Jim George   United States	Jan Bochenek   Poland
90 kg details	Arkadi Vorobyev   Soviet Union	Trofim Lomakin   Soviet Union	Louis Martin   Great Britain
+90 kg details	Yury Vlasov   Soviet Union	James Bradford   United States	Norbert Schemansky   United States

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	5	1	0	6
2	United States  (USA)	1	4	1	6
3	Poland  (POL)	1	0	1	2
4	Japan  (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Singapore  (SIN)	0	1	0	1
6	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary  (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Iran  (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Iraq  (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
	Italy  (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		7	7	7	21

Participating nations

•   Australia  (7)
•   Austria  (4)
•   Belgium  (2)
•   Brazil  (1)
•   British West Indies  (1)
•   Bulgaria  (7)
•   Burma  (2)
•   Canada  (3)
•   Formosa  (2)
•   Colombia  (3)
•   Cuba  (1)
•   Czechoslovakia  (3)
•   Finland  (2)
•   France  (6)
•   United Team of Germany  (7)
•   Great Britain  (7)
•   Greece  (1)
•   Haiti  (1)
•   Hungary  (5)
•   India  (1)
•   Indonesia  (2)
•   Iran  (5)
•   Iraq  (5)
•   Ireland  (2)
•   Israel  (2)
•   Italy  (7)
•   Japan  (7)
•   South Korea  (7)
•   Lebanon  (2)
•   Luxembourg  (2)
•   Malaya  (2)
•   Mexico  (1)
•   Morocco  (4)
•   Netherlands Antilles  (5)
•   New Zealand  (1)
•   Norway  (1)
•   Pakistan  (2)
•   Panama  (1)
•   Philippines  (2)
•   Poland  (7)
•   Portugal  (1)
•   Puerto Rico  (2)
•   Romania  (2)
•   Singapore  (1)
•   South Africa  (3)
•   Soviet Union  (6)
•   Spain  (2)
•   Sudan  (2)
•   Sweden  (1)
•   Switzerland  (3)
•   United Arab Republic  (7)
•   United States  (7)
•   Venezuela  (2)

References

1. "Weightlifting at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 21 December 2006.