Weightlifting at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Weightlifting at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Location	Ward Theatre, Kingston, Jamaica
Dates	4 to 13 August 1966
←  1962 1970  →

Weightlifting at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the fifth appearance of Weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games. The events took place at the Ward Theatre in Kingston, Jamaica and featured contests in seven weight classes. ^{[1] [2]}

England topped the weightlifting medal table with two gold medals. ^{[3] [4]}

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Jamaica)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England	2	3	1	6
2	Australia	1	1	1	3
	Wales	1	1	1	3
4	Canada	1	0	2	3
5	Trinidad and Tobago	1	0	1	2
6	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
7	Guyana	0	1	0	1
	India	0	1	0	1
9	Jamaica*	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Precious McKenzie	Martin Dias	Chun Hon Chan
Featherweight	Chung Kum Weng	Mahon Ghosh	Allen Salter
Lightweight	Hugo Gittens	George Newton	Ieuan Owen
Middleweight	Pierre St.-Jean	Horace Johnson	Russell Perry
Light Heavyweight	George Vakakis	Sylvanus Blackman	Mike Pearman
Middle Heavyweight	Louis Martin	George Manners	Dudley Lawson
Heavyweight	Don Oliver	Arthur Shannos	Brandon Bailey

Results

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Bantamweight 56kg

Pos	Athlete	Weight
1	Precious McKenzie	705 lb
2	Martin Dias	677.5 lb
3	Chun Hon Chan	672 lb
4	Anthony Phillips	666.5 lb
5	Gerald Hay	655.5 lb
6	Marcel Gosselin	616.75 lb
7	John McNiven	606 lb
8	Sammy Dalzell	600.25 lb
9	Clifford Chin	545.25 lb
-	William A. Samuels	ns
-	Chua Phung Kim	ns

Featherweight 60kg

Pos	Athlete	Weight
1	Chung Kum Weng	743.5 lb
2	Mahon Ghosh	738 lb
3	Allen Salter	716 lb
4	Winston Bourne	705 lb
5	Arun K. Das	694 lb
6	Joseph Charles Brancatisano	688.5 lb
7	Ghye H. Tang	666.5 lb
8	Bruce Cameron	639 lb
-	G. Shepherd	ns
-	Clyde Morris	ns
-	Lewis Kok Shun	sn

Lightweight 67.5kg

Pos	Athlete	Weight
1	Hugo Gittens	809.75 lb
2	George Newton	782.25 lb
3	Ieuan Owen	771 lb
4	Maurice King	771 lb
5	Marcel Bedard	754.75 lb
6	W. Lewis	743.5 lb
7	Jimmy Moir	732.75 lb
8	Kim S. Boo	721.5 lb
9	Paul Ross	710.5 lb
10	Arthur Francisco	644.5 lb
11	Edward Young	628 lb
-	Arthur C. Pollard	ns
-	Lakshmi Das	ns
-	Sek Tong Cheah	ns

Middleweight 75kg

Pos	Athlete	Weight
1	Pierre St.-Jean	892.5 lb
2	Horace Johnson	843 lb
3	Russell Perry	821 lb
4	J. France	793.5 lb
5	Laurie Levine	787.75 lb
6	John Bolton	787.75 lb
7	Cedric Demetrius	754.75 lb
8	Alex McAfee	727 lb
-	Tan Howe Liang	ns
-	Tong A. Teo	ns

Light Heavyweight 82.5kg

Pos	Athlete	Weight
1	George Vakakis	925.5 lb
2	Sylvanus Blackman	914.5 lb
3	Mike Pearman	903.5 lb
4	David Harry	898 lb
5	Earl Jack	854 lb
6	Hal Springer	843 lb
7	Kenneth G. Gordon	815.5 lb
8	Keith Bailey	749 lb
9	Alan A. Tang Yan	705 lb
-	R. James	ns
-	Peter Arthur	ns
-	Phil Caira	ns
-	Meng S. Yap	ns

Middle Heavyweight 90kg

Pos	Athlete	Weight
1	Louis Martin	1019.25 lb
2	George Manners	947.75 lb
3	Dudley Lawson	931 lb
4	Paul Bjarnason	920 lb
5	Leslie Pedlar	771.25 lb
6	Graeme Hall	ns
7	Chim Seong Leong	ns

Heavyweight 110kg

Pos	Athlete	Weight
1	Don Oliver	1096.25 lb
2	Arthur Shannos	1024.75 lb
3	Brandon Bailey	1019.5 lb
4	Terry Perdue	936.5 lb
5	Jim Ferguson	ns

References

1. "Louis Martin's win thrills Jamaicans" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 10 August 1966. p. 16. Retrieved 14 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
2. "38 countries set Games record" . Belfast Telegraph. 4 May 1966. p. 22. Retrieved 14 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Weightlifting". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
4. "Medal Standings Kingston 1966". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
5. "Commonwealth Games results" . The Scotsman. 6 August 1966. p. 20. Retrieved 9 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
6. "Kingston Games Results" . The People. 7 August 1966. p. 16. Retrieved 7 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
7. "Commonwealth Games results" . The Scotsman. 8 August 1966. p. 12. Retrieved 7 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
8. "Games results" . Daily Mirror. 9 August 1966. p. 19. Retrieved 7 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
9. "Empire Games' Results List" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 9 August 1966. p. 20. Retrieved 7 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
10. "Commonwealth Games results" . The Scotsman. 10 August 1966. p. 16. Retrieved 7 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
11. "Commonwealth Games results" . Evening News (London). 11 August 1966. p. 13. Retrieved 7 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
12. "Your Games Results" . The Scotsman. 12 August 1966. p. 16. Retrieved 7 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
13. "Commonwealth Games results" . The Scotsman. 13 August 1966. p. 20. Retrieved 7 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
14. "Commonwealth Games results" . The Scotsman. 15 August 1966. p. 20. Retrieved 7 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.

See also

• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting