Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics
The weightlifting competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only.
Medal summary
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 56 kg |
 Charles Vinci (USA)
|
 Yoshinobu Miyake (JPN)
|
 Esmaeil Elmkhah (IRI)
|
| 60 kg |
 Yevgeny Minayev (URS)
|
Isaac Berger (USA)
|
 Sebastiano Mannironi (ITA)
|
| 67.5 kg |
Viktor Bushuev (URS)
|
 Tan Howe Liang (SIN)
|
 Abdul Wahid Aziz (IRQ)
|
| 75 kg |
Aleksandr Kurynov (URS)
|
Tommy Kono (USA)
|
 Győző Veres (HUN)
|
| 82.5 kg |
 Ireneusz Paliński (POL)
|
Jim George (USA)
|
Jan Bochenek (POL)
|
| 90 kg |
Arkadi Vorobyev (URS)
|
Trofim Lomakin (URS)
|
 Louis Martin (GBR)
|
| +90 kg |
Yury Vlasov (URS)
|
James Bradford (USA)
|
Norbert Schemansky (USA)
|
Medal table
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) |
5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | United States (USA) |
1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Poland (POL) |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Singapore (SIN) |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Hungary (HUN) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Iran (IRI) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Iraq (IRQ) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Italy (ITA) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
|---|
References
- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-21.
