World Weightlifting Championships 1961

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The 36th World Weightlifting Championships took place from September 20-25, 1961 in the Austrian capital Vienna . 120 weightlifters from 33 nations took part in the competitions held by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) . The Soviet Union became the most successful nation, followed by Poland and the United States .

Medalist

discipline gold silver bronze
Bantamweight Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladimir Stogov Hungary 1957Hungary Imre Foldi JapanJapan Yoshinobu Miyake
Featherweight United StatesUnited States Isaac Berger ItalyItaly Sebastiano Mannironi and Yevgeny Minaev
Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union
lightweight Poland 1944Poland Waldemar Baszanowski Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Sergei Lopatin Poland 1944Poland Marian Zieliński
medium weight Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Alexander Kurynov Hungary 1957Hungary Győző Veres FranceFrance Marcel Paterni
Lightweight Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Rudolf Plukfelder Hungary 1957Hungary Géza Tóth United StatesUnited States Thomas Kono
Middle heavyweight Poland 1944Poland Ireneusz Paliński United KingdomUnited Kingdom Louis Martin Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Arkady Vorobyov
Super heavyweight Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Yuri Vlasov United StatesUnited States Richard Zirk FinlandFinland Eino Mäkinen

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 2 1 7th
2. Poland 1944Poland Poland 2 0 1 3
3. United StatesUnited States United States 1 1 1 3
4th Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 0 3 0 3
5. ItalyItaly Italy 0 1 0 1
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 0 1 0 1
7th FinlandFinland Finland 0 0 1 1
FranceFrance France 0 0 1 1
JapanJapan Japan 0 0 1 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Championships ( English ) In: iwf.net . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ World Championships Seniors 1997 - 2007 and Statistics ( English , PDF; 31.8 MB) In: iwf.net . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (Bantamweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  4. ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (featherweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  5. ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (lightweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  6. ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (Middleweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  7. ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (Light Heavyweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  8. ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (middle heavyweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  9. ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (super heavyweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.