Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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The weightlifting competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London consisted of six weight classes, all for men only. The bantamweight division was a newly created weight class, marking the first change to the Olympic program since 1920.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight –56 kg	Joseph De Pietro United States (USA)	Julian Creus Great Britain (GBR)	Richard Tom United States (USA)
Featherweight 56–60 kg	Mahmoud Fayad Egypt (EGY)	Rodney Wilkes Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	Jafar Salmassi Iran (IRI)
Lightweight 60–67.5 kg	Ibrahim Shams Egypt (EGY)	Attia Hamouda Egypt (EGY)	James Halliday Great Britain (GBR)
Middleweight 67.5–75 kg	Frank Spellman United States (USA)	Peter George United States (USA)	Kim Sung-Jip South Korea (KOR)
Light-heavyweight 75–82.5 kg	Stanley Stanczyk United States (USA)	Harold Sakata United States (USA)	Gösta Magnusson Sweden (SWE)
Heavyweight +82.5 kg	John Davis United States (USA)	Norbert Schemansky United States (USA)	Abraham Charite Netherlands (NED)

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	3	1	8
2	Egypt (EGY)	2	1	0	3
3	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	1	2
4	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	1	0	1
5	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Reference

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on December 20, 2006.

Events at the 1948 Summer Olympics (London)
Athletics • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Lacrosse (demonstration) • Modern pentathlon • 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