World Weightlifting Championships 1962
The 37th World Weightlifting Championships took place from September 16 to 22, 1962 in the Hungarian capital Budapest . 113 weightlifters from 27 nations took part in the competitions organized by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) . The Soviet Union was again the most successful nation, followed by hosts Hungary, as well as Japan and the United Kingdom .
Medalist
discipline | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Bantamweight | Yoshinobu Miyake | Imre Foldi | Vladimir Stogov |
Featherweight | Yevgeny Minaev | Yevgeny Kazura | Rudolf Kozłowski |
lightweight | Vladimir Kaplunov | Waldemar Baszanowski | Marian Zieliński |
medium weight | Alexander Kurynov | Mihály Huszka | Mohammad Ami-Tehrani |
Lightweight | Győző Veres | Thomas Kono | Géza Tóth |
Middle heavyweight | Louis Martin | Ireneusz Paliński | Bill March |
Super heavyweight | Yuri Vlasov | Norbert Schemansky | Gary Gubner |
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 | 1 | 1 | 6th |
2. | Hungary | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4th |
3. | Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
5. | Poland | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4th |
United States | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4th | |
7th | Iran | 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.