1954 World Weightlifting Championships
The 31st world weightlifting championships took place from October 7th to 10th, 1954 in the Austrian city of Vienna . 100 weightlifters from 23 nations took part in the competitions held by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) in a three-way fight (two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing) .
Medalist
discipline | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Bantamweight | Bakir Farchutdinov | Mahmoud Namdjou | Ali Mirzaei |
Featherweight | Rafael Tschimischkian | Ivan Udodov | Do Maung Nile |
lightweight | Dimitri Ivanov | Said Khalifa Gouda | Josef Tauchner |
medium weight | Peter George | Fyodor Bogdanovsky | Stanley Stanczyk |
Lightweight | Tamio Kono | Trofim Lomakin | Jean Debuf |
Middle heavyweight | Arkady Vorobiev | David Sheppard | Clyde Emrich |
Super heavyweight | Norbert Schemansky | James Bradford | Franz Hölbl |
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. | Soviet Union | 4th | 3 | 0 | 8th |
2. | United States | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6th |
3. | Iran | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
4th | Egypt | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
5. | Austria | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
6th | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
6th | Burma | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ^ World Championships. In: iwf.net. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
- ↑ World Championships Seniors 1997-2007 and Statistics. (PDF; 31.8 MB) In: iwf.net. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
- ^ Weightlifting World Championships (bantamweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
- ^ Weightlifting World Championships (featherweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
- ^ Weightlifting World Championships (lightweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
- ↑ Weightlifting World Championships (Middleweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
- ^ Weightlifting World Championships (Light Heavyweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
- ↑ Weightlifting World Championships (middle heavyweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (super heavyweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .