1948 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the XIV Summer Olympics
information
venue	London
Competition venue	Earls Court Exhibition Center
Nations	30th
Athletes	120 (120 men)
date	9-11 August 1948
decisions	6th
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At the XIV Summer Olympics in London in 1948 , six weightlifting competitions were held. The venue was the Earls Court Exhibition Center in the Earls Court district . The program was one weight class more than before.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	4th	3	1	8th
2	Egypt	2	1	-	3
3	Great Britain	-	1	1	2
4th	Trinidad and Tobago	-	1	-	1
5	Iran	-	-	1	1
	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
	South Korea	-	-	1	1
	Sweden	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Bantamweight	Joseph Di Pietro	Julian Creus	Richard Tom
Featherweight	Mahmoud Fayad	Rodney Wilkes	Mohammad Jafar Salmasi
lightweight	Ibrahim Shams	Attia Hamouda	James Halliday
medium weight	Frank Spellman	Peter George	Kim Seong-jip
Lightweight	Stanley Stanczyk	Harold Sakata	Gosta Magnusson
Heavyweight	John Davis	Norbert Schemansky	Abraham Charité

Results

Bantam weight (up to 56 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	United States	Joseph Di Pietro	307.5 ( WR )
2	GBR	Julian Creus	297.5
3	United States	Richard Tom	295.0
4th	COR	Lee Gyu-hyeok	290.0
5	IRN	Mahmoud Namdjou	287.5
6th	FRA	Marcel Thévenet	280.0
7th	CAN	Rosaire Smith	277.5
8th	NZL	Maurice Crow	272.5
9	OUT	Keith Caple	272.5
10	COR	Pak Dong-uk	272.5
17th	AUT	Josef Vojtech	255.0

Date: August 9, 1948
19 participants from 14 countries

Feather weight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	EGY	Mahmoud Fayad	332.5 ( WR )
2	TRI	Rodney Wilkes	317.5
3	IRN	Mohammad Jafar Salmasi	312.5
4th	COR	Nam Su-il	307.5
5	PHI	Rodrigo del Rosario	307.5
6th	United States	Emerick Ishikawa	307.5
7th	THE	Johan Runge	305.0
8th	FRA	Max Heral	300.0
9	United States	Richard Tomita	300.0
10	FRA	André Le Guillerm	300.0
11	AUT	Anton Richter	292.5
22nd	SUI	Richard Rieder	255.0

Date: August 9, 1948
23 participants from 18 countries

Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	EGY	Ibrahim Shams	360.0 ( OR )
2	EGY	Attia Hamouda	360.0
3	GBR	James Halliday	340.0
4th	United States	John Terpak	340.0
5	CAN	John Stuart	332.5
6th	COR	Kim Chang-Hui	330.0
7th	COR	Na Si-yun	330.0
8th	United States	Joseph Pitman	322.5
9	JAM	George Espeut	322.5
10	THE	Jørgen Fryd Petersen	315.0

Date: August 10, 1948
22 participants from 17 countries

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	United States	Frank Spellman	390.0 ( OR )
2	United States	Peter George	382.5
3	COR	Kim Seong-jip	380.0
4th	EGY	Khadr Sayed El Touni	380.0
5	CAN	Joseph Gratton	360.0
6th	FRA	Pierre Bouladou	355.0
7th	CUB	Orlando Garrido	355.0
8th	GBR	George William Watson	350.0
9	FRA	Georges Firmin	347.5
10	CAN	Joseph Sklar	345.0
16	AUT	Klement shoe	320.0
19th	SUI	Fritz Mast	310.0
23	SUI	Roger Rubini	292.5

Date: August 10, 1948
24 participants from 18 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	United States	Stanley Stanczyk	417.5 ( OR )
2	United States	Harold Sakata	380.0
3	SWE	Gosta Magnusson	375.0
4th	FRA	Jean Debuf	370.0
5	ARG	Osvaldo Forte	367.5
6th	CAN	James Varaleau	365.0
7th	FIN	Juhani Vellamo	355.0
8th	IRN	Rasoul Raisi	355.0
9	GBR	Ernest Roe	355.0
10	HUN	László Buronyi	355.0
13	AUT	Wilhelm Pankl	347.5
14th	AUT	Fritz Haller	342.5

Date: August 11, 1948
16 participants from 13 countries

Heavy weight (over 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	United States	John Davis	452.5 ( OR )
2	United States	Norbert Schemansky	425.0
3	NED	Abraham Charité	412.5
4th	GBR	Alfred Knight	390.0
5	EGY	Hanafi Moustafa	385.0
6th	THE	Niels Petersen	382.5
7th	BEL	Robert Allart	377.5
8th	RSA	Petrus Taljaard	375.0
9	CUB	Alfonso Parera	372.5
10	BY	Carlos Domínguez	362.5
14th	AUT	Franz Eibler	327.5

Date: August 11, 1948
16 participants from 14 countries

Web links

• Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1948 Summer Games (PDF, 30.9 MB)