World Weightlifting Championships 1938
The 24th World Weightlifting Championships were held from 21 to 23 October 1938 in the after the annexation of Austria in the German Reich town of Vienna instead. 38 weightlifters from eleven nations took part in the three-way competition (two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing) held by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) .
Medalist
discipline | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Featherweight | Georg Liebsch | Attilio Bescape | Anton Richter |
lightweight | Anthony Terlazzo | Attia Hamouda | Karl Schwitalle |
medium weight | Adolf Wagner | Rudolf Ismayr | John Terpak |
Lightweight | John Davis | Fritz Haller | Louis hostess |
Super heavyweight | Josef Manger | Steve Stanko | Arnold Luhaäär |
Medal table
The placements in the medal table are sorted according to the number of gold medals won, followed by the number of silver and bronze medals ( lexicographical order ). If two or more nations have an identical medal balance, they are listed alphabetically on the same rank.
rank | nation | gold | silver | bronze | total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. |
Greater German Reich |
3 3 0 |
2 1 1 |
2 1 1 |
7 5 2 |
2. | United States | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
3. | Egypt | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Italy | |||||
5. | Estonia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
France |
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Championships ( English ) In: iwf.net . Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ↑ World Championships Seniors 1997 - 2007 and Statistics ( English , PDF; 31.8 MB) In: iwf.net . Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (featherweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (lightweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (Middleweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (Light Heavyweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (super heavyweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved September 28, 2012.