1957 World Weightlifting Championships
The 33rd World Weightlifting Championships took place from November 8th to 12th, 1957 in the Iranian city of Tehran . 76 weightlifters from 21 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 | Vladimir Stogov | Ali Safa Sounboli | Mahmoud Namdjou |
Featherweight | Yevgeny Minaev | Sebastiano Mannironi | Isaac Berger |
lightweight | Viktor Buschuyev | Ivan Abajiev | Jan Czepułkowski |
medium weight | Tamio Kono | Fyodor Bogdanovsky | Jan Bochenek |
Lightweight | Trofim Lomakin | James George | Jalal Mansouri |
Middle heavyweight | Arkady Vorobiev | Mohammed Rahnavardi | Firouz Pojhan |
Super heavyweight | Alexei Medvedev | Humberto Selvetti | Alberto Pigaiani |
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 | 6th | 1 | 0 | 7th |
2. | United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
3. | Iran | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
4th | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
5. | Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
5. | Argentina | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
7th | Poland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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 .