1920 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the VII Olympic Games
information
venue	Antwerp
Competition venue	Olympic Stadium
Nations	14th
Athletes	53 (53 men)
date	29.-31. August 1920
decisions	5
← St. Louis 1904 Paris 1924 →

At the VII Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 , five weightlifting competitions were held. The venue was the Olympic Stadium . This sport was on the program for the first time since 1904, now with five standardized weight classes.

Balance sheet

Olympic Stadium

Medal table

space	country				total
1	France	2	-	1	3
2	Belgium	1	1	1	3
3	Estonia	1	1	-	2
	Italy	1	1	-	2
5	Switzerland	-	1	1	2
6th	Luxembourg	-	1	-	1
7th	Sweden	-	-	2	2

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Featherweight	Frans De Haes	Alfred Schmidt	Eugène Ryter
lightweight	Alfred new territory	Louis Williquet	Florimond Rooms
medium weight	Henri Gance	Pietro Bianchi	Albert Pettersson
Lightweight	Ernest Cadine	Fritz Hünenberger	Erik Pettersson
Heavyweight	Filippo Bottino	Joseph Alzin	Louis Bernot

Results

Feather weight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	BEL	Frans De Haes	220.0 ( OR )
2	EST	Alfred Schmidt	210.0
3	SUI	Eugène Ryther	210.0
4th	ITA	Luigi Gatti	195.0
5	TCH	Ludvík Wágner	195.0
6th	SWE	Gustav Eriksson	192.5
7th	BEL	Lionel De Haes	190.0
	EST	Karl Kõiv
9	NED	Kees Tijman	190.0
10	THE	Niels Florin	180.0
11	GBR	John Paine	172.5
12	FRA	André Delloue	150.0
13	FRA	Jean Ducher	140.0
	LUX	Michel Mertens	DNF

Date: August 29, 1920
14 participants from 11 countries

Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	EST	Alfred new territory	257.5 ( OR )
2	BEL	Louis Williquet	240.0
3	BEL	Florimond Rooms	230.0
4th	ITA	Giulio Monti	230.0
5	FRA	Fernand Arnout	220.0
	SWE	Karl Olofsson
7th	FRA	Jean Vaquette	215.0
8th	LUX	Johny Green	210.0
	NED	Wilhelmus van Nijmegen
10	GRE	Evangelos Menexis	205.0
11	THE	Thorvald Hansen	202.5
12	GBR	Percival Mills	192.5

Date: August 29, 1920
12 participants from 10 countries

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	FRA	Henri Gance	245.0 ( OR )
2	ITA	Pietro Bianchi	235.0
3	SWE	Albert Pettersson	235.0
4th	NED	Marinus Ringelberg	225.0
5	FRA	Paul Ledran	220.0
6th	THE	Christian Jensen	215.0
7th	BEL	Marcel Marchand	205.0
8th	NED	Pieter Belmer	165.0
	BEL	Georges De Proft	DNF
	EGY	Ahmed Samy	DNF

Date: August 30, 1920
10 participants from 7 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	FRA	Ernest Cadine	295.0 ( OR )
2	SUI	Fritz Hünenberger	277.5
3	SWE	Erik Pettersson	267.5
4th	SWE	Erik Carlsson	262.5
5	FRA	Maurice Devène	250.0
6th	ITA	Gino Mattiello	235.0
7th	NED	Jan Welter	230.0
8th	TCH	Jaroslav Dvořák	227.5
	BEL	Lionel van den Roye
10	THE	Søren Petersen	217.5
	FIN	Rudolf Ekström	DNF

Date: August 31, 1920
11 participants from 9 countries

Heavy weight (over 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	ITA	Filippo Bottino	265.0 ( OR )
2	LUX	Joseph Alzin	260.0
3	FRA	Louis Bernot	255.0
4th	THE	Ejnar Jensen	250.0
5	SWE	Otto Brunn	250.0
6th	FRA	Joseph Duchateau	247.5

Date: August 31, 1920
6 participants from 5 countries

Web links

• Fencing at the Olympic Games 1920 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1920 (PDF, 952 kB)