1959 World Weightlifting Championships

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The 35th World Weightlifting Championships took place from September 29 to October 4, 1959 in the Polish city ​​of Warsaw . 85 weightlifters from 19 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 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladimir Stogov Poland 1944Poland Marian Jankowski HungaryHungary Imre Foldi
Featherweight Poland 1944Poland Marian Zieliński United StatesUnited States Isaac Berger ItalyItaly Sebastiano Mannironi
lightweight Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Viktor Buschuyev Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Hakob Farajyan Iraq 1959–1963Iraq 1959–1963 Abdu l-Wahid Aziz
medium weight United StatesUnited States Thomas Kono Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Fyodor Bogdanovsky Poland 1944Poland Jan Bochenek
Lightweight Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Rudolf Plukfelder Poland 1944Poland Ireneusz Paliński United StatesUnited States James George
Middle heavyweight United KingdomUnited Kingdom Louis Martin Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Arkady Vorobyov Poland 1944Poland Czeslaw Bialas
Super heavyweight Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Yuri Vlasov United StatesUnited States James Bradford Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Ivan Weselinov

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 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 4th 3 0 7th
2. Poland 1944Poland Poland 1 2 2 5
3. United StatesUnited States United States 1 2 1 4th
4th United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 1 0 0 1
5. Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Bulgaria 0 0 1 1
5. HungaryHungary Hungary 0 0 1 1
5. Iraq 1959–1963Iraq 1959–1963 Iraq 0 0 1 1
5. ItalyItaly Italy 0 0 1 1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ World Championships. In: iwf.net. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
  2. ↑ World Championships Seniors 1997-2007 and Statistics. (PDF; 31.8 MB) In: iwf.net. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
  3. ^ Weightlifting World Championships (bantamweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
  4. ^ Weightlifting World Championships (featherweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
  5. ^ Weightlifting World Championships (lightweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Weightlifting World Championships (Middleweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
  7. ^ Weightlifting World Championships (Light Heavyweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Weightlifting World Championships (middle heavyweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (super heavyweight). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .