1960 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting
| Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics |
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| information | |
| venue |
 Rome
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| Competition venue | Palazzetto dello Sport |
| Nations | 53 |
| Athletes | 172 (172  )
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| date | 7-10 September 1960 |
| decisions | 7th |
| ← Melbourne 1956 | |
At the XVII. The 1960 Olympic Games in Rome hosted seven weightlifting competitions. The venue was the Palazzetto dello Sport with a capacity of 5000 spectators.
Balance sheet
Medal table
| space | country |
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total |
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| 1 |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
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5 | 1 | - | 6th |
| 2 |
 United States
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1 | 4th | 1 | 6th |
| 3 |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
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1 | - | 1 | 2 |
| 4th |
 Japan
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- | 1 | - | 1 |
 Singapore
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- | 1 | - | 1 | |
| 6th |
 Great Britain
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- | - | 1 | 1 |
 Iraq
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- | - | 1 | 1 | |
.svg){kind=small} Iran
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- | - | 1 | 1 | |
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Italy
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- | - | 1 | 1 | |
 Hungary
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- | - | 1 | 1 |
Medalist
| competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bantamweight |
Charles Vinci
|
Yoshinobu Miyake
|
Esmail Khah
|
| Featherweight |
Yevgeny Minaev
|
Isaac Berger
|
Sebastiano Mannironi
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| lightweight |
Viktor Buschuyev
|
Tan Howe Liang
|
.svg){kind=small} Abdu l-Wahid Aziz
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| medium weight |
Alexander Kurynov
|
Thomas Kono
|
Győző Veres
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| Lightweight |
Ireneusz Paliński
|
James George
|
Jan Bochenek
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| Middle heavyweight |
Arkady Vorobyov
|
Trofim Lomakin
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Louis Martin
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| Heavyweight |
Yuri Vlasov
|
James Bradford
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Norbert Schemansky
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Results
Bantam weight (up to 56 kg)
| space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
United States
|
Charles Vinci | 345.0 ( WR ) |
| 2 |
JPN
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Yoshinobu Miyake | 337.5 |
| 3 |
IRN
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Esmail Khah | 330.0 |
| 4th |
JPN
|
Shigeo Kogure | 322.5 |
| 5 |
POLE
|
Marian Jankowski | 322.5 |
| 6th |
HUN
|
Imre Foldi | 320.0 |
| 7th |
COR
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Yu In-ho | 315.0 |
| 8th |
IRQ
|
Ali Hassain Hussain | 312.5 |
| 9 |
ITA
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Renzo Grandi | 307.5 |
| 10 |
.svg){kind=small} WIF
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Grantley Sobers | 307.5 |
| 10 |
.svg){kind=small} EUA
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Hans Reck | DNF |
Date: September 7, 1960, 9:00 a.m.
22 participants from 18 countries
Vinci defended his title and equaled Vladimir Stogov's world record .
Feather weight (up to 60 kg)
| space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
URS
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Yevgeny Minaev | 372.5 ( WR ) |
| 2 |
United States
|
Isaac Berger | 362.5 |
| 3 |
ITA
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Sebastiano Mannironi | 352.5 |
| 4th |
COR
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Kim Hae-nam | 345.0 |
| 5 |
JPN
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Yukio Furuyama | 345.0 |
| 6th |
 VAR
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Hosni Mohamed Abbas | 337.5 |
| 7th |
.svg){kind=small} BIR
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Do Maung Kywe | 327.5 |
| 8th |
 PHI
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Alberto Nogar | 325.0 |
| 9 |
.svg){kind=small} BUL
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Kirill Georgiev | 325.0 |
| 10 |
VAR
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Moustafa El-Shalakani | 320.0 |
| 13 |
EUA
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Georg Miske | 310.0 |
| 16 |
 AUT
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Hermann Dodojacek | 295.0 |
| 20th |
AUT
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Walter Legel | 282.5 |
Date: September 7, 1960, 5:00 p.m.
28 participants from 25 countries
Minajew equalized the world record of defending champion Isaac Berger.
Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)
| space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
URS
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Viktor Buschuyev | 397.5 ( WR ) |
| 2 |
SIN
|
Tan Howe Liang | 380.0 |
| 3 |
IRQ
|
Abdu l-Wahid Aziz | 380.0 |
| 4th |
POLE
|
Marian Zieliński | 375.0 |
| 5 |
POLE
|
Waldemar Baszanowski | 370.0 |
| 6th |
HUN
|
Mihály Huszka | 365.0 |
| 7th |
EUA
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Werner Dittrich | 362.5 |
 TCH
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Zdeněk Otáhal | ||
| 9 |
 COL
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Ney Lopez | 357.5 |
| 10 |
COR
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Jin O-hyeon | 355.0 |
| 16 |
AUT
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Josef Tauchner | 340.0 |
| 21st |
 SUI
|
Hans Kohler | 322.5 |
Date: September 8, 1960, 9:00 a.m.
33 participants from 29 countries
Bushuyev exceeded his own world record by 7.5 kg. In this competition, Iraq won the only medal at the Olympic Games to date.
Middle weight (up to 75 kg)
| space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
URS
|
Alexander Kurynov | 473.5 ( WR ) |
| 2 |
United States
|
Thomas Kono | 427.5 |
| 3 |
HUN
|
Győző Veres | 405.0 |
| 4th |
 FRA
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Marcel Paterni | 400.0 |
| 5 |
POLE
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Krzysztof Beck | 400.0 |
| 6th |
IRN
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Mohamed Tehraniami | 392.5 |
| 7th |
COR
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Go Yeong-chang | 385.0 |
| 8th |
EUA
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Roland Lortz | 382.5 |
| 9 |
VAR
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Mohamed Amer El-Hanafi | 382.5 |
| 10 |
COR
|
Lee Jong-seop | 380.0 |
| 18th |
SUI
|
Georges Freiburghaus | 332.5 |
Date: September 8, 1960, 5:00 p.m.
27 participants from 20 countries
Kurynow beat Kono's world record by 7.5 kg.
Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)
| space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
POLE
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Ireneusz Paliński | 442.5 |
| 2 |
United States
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James George | 430.0 |
| 3 |
POLE
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Jan Bochenek | 420.0 |
| 4th |
HUN
|
Géza Tóth | 417.5 |
| 5 |
 FIN
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Jouni Kailajärvi | 417.5 |
| 6th |
BUL
|
Petar Tachev | 415.0 |
| 7th |
JPN
|
Minoru Kubota | 400.0 |
| 8th |
 BEL
|
Willy Claes | 392.5 |
| 9 |
IRQ
|
Shakir Salman | 390.0 |
| 10 |
IRN
|
Amiri Mangashti | 390.0 |
| 11 |
EUA
|
Rolf Sennewald | 390.0 |
| 19th |
SUI
|
Roland Fidel | 365.0 |
Date: September 9, 1960, 9:00 a.m.
24 participants from 22 countries
Paliński won the first gold medal in weightlifting since 1948, which went neither to the United States nor to the Soviet Union.
Medium weight (up to 90 kg)
| space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
URS
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Arkady Vorobyov | 472.5 kg ( WR ) |
| 2 |
URS
|
Trofim Lomakin | 457.5 |
| 3 |
GBR
|
Louis Martin | 445.0 |
| 4th |
United States
|
John Pulskamp | 432.5 |
| 5 |
FRA
|
François Vincent | 422.5 |
| 6th |
BUL
|
Vladimir Savov | 412.5 |
| 7th |
POLE
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Czesław Białas | 410.0 |
| 8th |
ITA
|
Leonardo Masu | 407.5 |
| 9 |
TCH
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Zdeněk Srstka | 405.0 |
| 10 |
COR
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Hwang Ho-dong | 400.0 |
| 12 |
EUA
|
Wolfgang Müller | 365.0 |
| 17th |
AUT
|
Kurt Herbst | 377.5 |
Date: September 9, 1960, 5:00 p.m.
20 participants from 17 countries
Vorobyov successfully defended his title and improved his own world record by 2.5 kg.
Heavy weight (over 90 kg)
| space | country | athlete | Weight (kg) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
URS
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Yuri Vlasov | 537.5 kg ( WR ) |
| 2 |
United States
|
James Bradford | 512.5 |
| 3 |
United States
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Norbert Schemansky | 500.0 |
| 4th |
VAR
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Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim | 455.0 |
| 5 |
FIN
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Eino Mäkinen | 455.0 |
| 6th |
.svg){kind=small} CAN
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David Baillie | 450.0 |
| 7th |
ITA
|
Alberto Pigaiani | 450.0 |
| 8th |
TCH
|
Václav Syrový | 445.0 |
| 9 |
 OUT
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Arthur Shannos | 435.0 |
| 10 |
IRQ
|
Hadi Abdul Jabbar | 432.5 |
| 12 |
EUA
|
Werner Arnold | 425.0 |
Date: September 10, 1960, 8:00 p.m.
18 participants from 16 countries
Vlasov surpassed the US lifter Paul Anderson's world record by 25 kg.
Web links
- Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official results of the 1960 Summer Games (PDF, 11.9 MB)
