Weightlifting at the 1936 Summer Olympics

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The weightlifting competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin consisted of five weight classes, all for men only.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Featherweight –60 kg	Anthony Terlazzo United States (USA)	Saleh Soliman Egypt (EGY)	Ibrahim Shams Egypt (EGY)
Lightweight 60–67.5 kg	Robert Fein Austria (AUT)	none	Karl Jansen Germany (GER)
	Anwar Mesbah Egypt (EGY)
Middleweight 67.5–75 kg	Khadr El Touni Egypt (EGY)	Rudolf Ismayr Germany (GER)	Adolf Wagner Germany (GER)
Light-heavyweight 75–82.5 kg	Louis Hostin France (FRA)	Eugen Deutsch Germany (GER)	Ibrahim Wasif Egypt (EGY)
Heavyweight +82.5 kg	Josef Manger Germany (GER)	Václav Psenicka Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Arnold Luhaäär Estonia (EST)

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt (EGY)	2	1	2	5
2	Germany (GER)	1	2	2	5
3	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
7	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Reference

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.

Events at the 1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin)
Athletics • Baseball (demonstration) • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gliding (demonstration) • Gymnastics • Handball • Hockey • Modern pentathlon • Polo • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in weightlifting