1952 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Finland
Competition venue	Messuhalli
Nations	41
Athletes	142 (142 )
date	25-27 July 1952
decisions	7th
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At the XV. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , seven weightlifting competitions were held. The venue was the Messuhalli (exhibition hall) in the Töölö district . A weight class was on the program more than four years earlier.

Balance sheet

Mesuhalli

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	4th	2	-	6th
2	Soviet Union	3	3	1	7th
3	Iran	-	1	1	2
4th	Canada	-	1	-	1
5	Trinidad and Tobago	-	-	2	2
6th	Argentina	-	-	1	1
	Australia	-	-	1	1
	South Korea	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Bantamweight	Ivan Udodov	Mahmoud Namdjou	Ali Mirzaei
Featherweight	Rafael Tschimischkjan	Nikolai Saksonov	Rodney Wilkes
lightweight	Thomas Kono	Yevgeny Lopatin	Vern Barberis
medium weight	Peter George	Gerard Gratton	Kim Seong-jip
Lightweight	Trofim Lomakin	Stanley Stanczyk	Arkady Vorobyov
Middle heavyweight	Norbert Schemansky	Grigory Nowak	Lennox Kilgour
Heavyweight	John Davis	James Bradford	Humberto Selvetti

Results

Bantam weight (up to 56 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Ivan Udodov	315.0 ( WR )
2	IRN	Mahmoud Namdjou	307.5
3	IRN	Ali Mirzaei	300.0
4th	COR	Kim Hae-nam	295.0
5	EGY	Kamal Mahmoud Mahgoub	292.5
6th	PHI	Pedro Landero	292.5
7th	GBR	Maurice Megennis	280.0
8th	SIN	Lon bin Mohamed Noor	275.0
9	CAN	Rosaire Smith	275.0
10	TCH	Karel Saitl	272.5
14th	GER	Josef Schuster	267.5
16	SUI	Roland Magnenat	250.0

Date: July 25, 1952
19 participants from 17 countries

Feather weight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Rafael Tschimischkjan	337.5 ( WR )
2	URS	Nikolai Saksonov	332.5
3	TRI	Rodney Wilkes	322.5
4th	PHI	Rodrigo del Rosario	317.5
5	EGY	Said Gouda	312.5
6th	SIN	Chay Weng Yew	312.5
7th	HUN	Bálint Nagy	307.5
8th	IRN	Mohssain Tabatabaie	307.5
9	GBR	Julian Creus	305.0
10	CAN	Jules Sylvain	302.5
16	GER	Oswald Junkes	290.0

Date: July 25, 1952
22 participants from 21 countries

Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	United States	Thomas Kono	362.5 ( OR )
2	URS	Yevgeny Lopatin	350.0
3	OUT	Vern Barberis	350.0
4th	COR	Kim Chang-hui	345.0
5	IRN	Hassan Ferdous	345.0
6th	EGY	Abdel Khadr El-Sayed El-Touni	342.5
7th	THE	Johan Runge	330.0
8th	INA	Thio Went Hwie	327.5
9	ITA	Ermanno Pignatti	325.0
10	ITA	Alfonso Canti	325.0
17th	AUT	Josef Tauchner	307.5
20th	SUI	Roger Rubini	295.0
	GER	Anton Leuthe	DNF

Date: July 26, 1952
24 participants from 22 countries

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	United States	Peter George	400.0 ( OR )
2	CAN	Gerard Gratton	390.0
3	COR	Kim Seong-jip	382.5
4th	EGY	Ismail Ragab	382.5
5	LIB	Moustafa Laham	370.0
6th	SWE	Åke Hedberg	357.5
7th	ARG	Ángel Sposato	357.5
8th	IRN	Jalal Mansouri	357.5
9	FIN	Frank Teräskari	352.5
10	FRA	André Dochy	350.0
14th	AUT	Emmerich Bauer	337.5
19th	SUI	Walter Dossenbach	312.5
20th	SUI	Jacques Flury	310.0

Date: July 26, 1952
21 participants from 20 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Trofim Lomakin	417.5 ( OR )
2	United States	Stanley Stanczyk	415.0
3	URS	Arkady Vorobyov	407.5
4th	IRN	Mohammad Hassan Rahnavardi	402.5
5	FRA	Jean Debuf	400.0
6th	RSA	Issy Bloomberg	392.5
7th	ARG	Osvaldo Forte	382.5
8th	United States	Clyde Emrich	380.0
9	EGY	Mohamed Ali Abdel Kerim	377.5
10	FRA	Georges Firmin	377.5
11	GER	Hans Claussen	362.5
14th	AUT	Wilhelm Flenner	352.5

Date: July 27, 1952
23 participants from 20 countries

Medium weight (up to 90 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	United States	Norbert Schemansky	445.0 ( WR )
2	URS	Grigory Nowak	410.0
3	TRI	Lennox Kilgour	402.5
4th	EGY	Mohamed Ibrahim Saleh	397.5
5	IRN	Firouz Pojhan	387.5
6th	OUT	Ken McDonald	385.0
7th	ARG	Francisco Rensonnet	370.0
8th	RSA	Theunis Jonck	367.5
9	ITA	Luciano Zardi	367.5
10	FIN	Kai Outa	365.0

Date: July 27, 1952
20 participants from 20 countries

Heavy weight (over 90 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	United States	John Davis	460.0 ( OR )
2	United States	James Bradford	437.5
3	ARG	Humberto Selvetti	432.5
4th	GER	Heinz Schattner	422.5
5	CAN	Dave Baillie	420.0
6th	ARG	Norberto Ferreira	410.0
7th	NZL	Harold Cleghorn	400.0
8th	AUT	Franz Hölbl	387.5
9	SWE	Andersson location	380.0
10	ITA	Adelfino Mancinelli	300.0

Date: July 27, 1952
13 participants from 11 countries

Web links

• Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1952 Summer Games (PDF, 29.7 MB)