World Weightlifting Championships 1961
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 | Vladimir Stogov | Imre Foldi | Yoshinobu Miyake |
Featherweight | Isaac Berger |
Sebastiano Mannironi and Yevgeny Minaev |
|
lightweight | Waldemar Baszanowski | Sergei Lopatin | Marian Zieliński |
medium weight | Alexander Kurynov | Győző Veres | Marcel Paterni |
Lightweight | Rudolf Plukfelder | Géza Tóth | Thomas Kono |
Middle heavyweight | Ireneusz Paliński | Louis Martin | Arkady Vorobyov |
Super heavyweight | Yuri Vlasov | Richard Zirk | 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 | 4th | 2 | 1 | 7th |
2. | Poland | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
3. | United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
4th | Hungary | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
5. | Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
United Kingdom | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
7th | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Championships ( English ) In: iwf.net . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ↑ World Championships Seniors 1997 - 2007 and Statistics ( English , PDF; 31.8 MB) In: iwf.net . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (Bantamweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (featherweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (lightweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (Middleweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (Light Heavyweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (middle heavyweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ↑ Weightlifting - World Championships (super heavyweight) ( German ) In: sport-komplett.de . Retrieved December 21, 2013.