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Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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Weightlifting
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenuePalazzetto dello Sport
Dates7–10 September 1960
Competitors172 from 53 nations
← 1956
1964 →

The weightlifting competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only.[1]

Medal summary

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
56 kg
details
Charles Vinci
 United States
Yoshinobu Miyake
 Japan
Esmaeil Elmkhah
 Iran
60 kg
details
Yevgeny Minayev
 Soviet Union
Isaac Berger
 United States
Sebastiano Mannironi
 Italy
67.5 kg
details
Viktor Bushuev
 Soviet Union
Tan Howe Liang
 Singapore
Abdul-Wahid Aziz
 Iraq
75 kg
details
Aleksandr Kurynov
 Soviet Union
Tommy Kono
 United States
Győző Veres
 Hungary
82.5 kg
details
Ireneusz Paliński
 Poland
Jim George
 United States
Jan Bochenek
 Poland
90 kg
details
Arkadi Vorobyev
 Soviet Union
Trofim Lomakin
 Soviet Union
Louis Martin
 Great Britain
+90 kg
details
Yury Vlasov
 Soviet Union
James Bradford
 United States
Norbert Schemansky
 United States

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)5106
2 United States (USA)1416
3 Poland (POL)1012
4 Japan (JPN)0101
 Singapore (SIN)0101
6 Great Britain (GBR)0011
 Hungary (HUN)0011
 Iran (IRI)0011
 Iraq (IRQ)0011
 Italy (ITA)0011
Totals (10 entries)77721

References

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  1. ^ "Weightlifting at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

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