1964 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting in the XVIII. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Tokyo
Competition venue	Shibuya City Hall
Nations	42
Athletes	149 (149 men)
date	11-18 October 1964
decisions	7th
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At the XVIII. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , seven weightlifting competitions were held. The venue was the Shibuya City Hall ( 渋 谷 公会 堂 , Shibuya Kōkaidō ) in the Shibuya district . The Olympic competitions also counted as world championships for this year.

Balance sheet

Shibuya City Hall

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	4th	3	-	7th
2	Poland	1	-	3	4th
3	Japan	1	-	2	3
4th	Czechoslovakia	1	-	-	1
5	Hungary	-	2	1	3
6th	United States	-	1	1	2
7th	Great Britain	-	1	-	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Bantamweight	Alexei Wachonin	Imre Foldi	Shirō Ichinoseki
Featherweight	Yoshinobu Miyake	Isaac Berger	Mieczysław Nowak
lightweight	Waldemar Baszanowski	Vladimir Kaplunov	Marian Zieliński
medium weight	Hans Zdražila	Viktor Kurentsov	Masushi Ōuchi
Lightweight	Rudolf Pljukfelder	Géza Tóth	Győző Veres
Middle heavyweight	Vladimir Golovanov	Louis Martin	Ireneusz Paliński
Heavyweight	Leonid Shabotinsky	Yuri Vlasov	Norbert Schemansky

Results

Bantam weight (up to 56 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Alexei Wachonin	357.5 ( WR )
2	HUN	Imre Foldi	355.0
3	JPN	Shirō Ichinoseki	347.5
4th	POLE	Henryk Trębicki	342.5
5	COR	Yang Mu-shin	340.0
6th	JPN	Yukio Furuyama	335.0
7th	COR	Yu In-ho	335.0
8th	GUI	Martin Dias	335.0
9	HUN	Róbert Nagy	330.0
10	IRN	Rajabi Eslami	330.0

Date: October 11, 1964, 10:00 a.m.
24 participants from 18 countries

Feather weight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	JPN	Yoshinobu Miyake	397.5 ( WR )
2	United States	Isaac Berger	382.5
3	POLE	Mieczysław Nowak	377.5
4th	JPN	Hiroshi Fukuda	375.0
5	ITA	Sebastiano Mannironi	370.0
6th	COR	Kim Hae-nam	367.5
7th	POLE	Rudolf Kozłowski	357.5
8th	VAR	Hosni Abbas	342.5
9	PAN	Ildefonso Lee	340.0
10	MAS	Chung Kum Weng	335.0
11	EUA	Martin Eberle	335.0

Hiroshi Fukuda

Date: October 12, 1964, 10:00 a.m.
22 participants from 20 countries

Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	POLE	Waldemar Baszanowski	432.5 ( WR )
2	URS	Vladimir Kaplunov	432.5 ( WR )
3	POLE	Marian Zieliński	420.0
4th	United States	Tony Garcy	412.5
5	TCH	Zdeněk Otáhal	400.0
6th	JPN	Hiroshi Yamazaki	397.5
7th	IRN	Parviz Jalayer	395.0
8th	EUA	Alfred Kornprobst	385.0
9	VAR	Saleh Hussain	382.5
10	IRQ	Mahmoud Rashid	367.5
14th	SUI	Philippe Lab	360.0

Date: October 13, 1964, 10:00 a.m.
20 participants from 18 countries

Baszanowski was awarded the gold medal because of his lower body weight.

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	TCH	Hans Zdražila	445.0 ( WR )
2	URS	Viktor Kurentsov	440.0
3	JPN	Masushi Ōuchi	437.5
4th	COR	Lee Jong-sup	432.5
5	JPN	Sadahiro Miwa	422.5
6th	HUN	Mihály Huszka	420.0
7th	FRA	Rolf Maier	417.5
8th	BUL	Velichko Konarov	415.0
9	PURE	Vicor Angel Pagan	415.0
10	IRQ	Mohammed Nadum	407.5
	EUA	Werner Dittrich	DNF

Hans Zdražila

Date: October 14, 1964, 10:00 a.m.
19 participants from 17 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Rudolf Pljukfelder	475.0 ( OR )
2	HUN	Géza Tóth	467.5
3	HUN	Győző Veres	467.5
4th	POLE	Jerzy Kaczkowski	457.5
5	United States	Gary Cleveland	455.0
6th	COR	Lee Hyung-woo	452.5
7th	FIN	Kaarlo Kangasniemi	450.0
8th	EUA	Karl Arnold	440.0
9	FIN	Jaakko Kailajärvi	435.0
10	GBR	Sylvanus Blackman	427.5
18th	AUT	Gerhard Hastik	397.5

Date: October 16, 1964, 10:00 a.m.
24 participants from 21 countries

Medium weight (up to 90 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Vladimir Golovanov	487.5 ( WR )
2	GBR	Louis Martin	475.0
3	POLE	Ireneusz Paliński	467.5
4th	United States	William March	467.5
5	ROME	Lazar Baroga	460.0
6th	HUN	Arpad Nemessanyi	460.0
7th	FIN	Jouni Kailajärvi	452.5
8th	BUL	Petar Tachev	445.0
9	CAN	John Lewis	440.0
10	AUT	Kurt Herbst	437.5
14th	EUA	Norbert Fehr	410.0

Date: October 17, 1964, 10:00 a.m.
19 participants from 18 countries

Heavy weight (over 90 kg)

space	country	athlete	Weight (kg)
1	URS	Leonid Shabotinsky	572.5 ( WR )
2	URS	Yuri Vlasov	570.0
3	United States	Norbert Schemansky	537.5
4th	United States	Gary Gubner	512.5
5	HUN	Károly Ecser	507.5
6th	VAR	Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim	495.0
7th	BUL	Ivan Weselinov	490.0
8th	COR	Hwang Ho-dong	482.5
9	NZL	Donald Oliver	480.0
10	BEL	Serge Reding	477.5
11	EUA	Manfred Rieger	475.0
18th	AUT	Udo Querch	442.5

Date: October 18, 1964, 10:00 a.m.
21 participants from 19 countries

Web links

Commons : Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics  - Pictures, Videos and Audio Files Collection

• Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1964 Summer Games (PDF, 14.5 MB)