Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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The weightlifting competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight –56 kg	Aleksei Vakhonin Soviet Union (URS)	Imre Földi Hungary (HUN)	Shiro Ishinoseki Japan (JPN)
Featherweight 56–60 kg	Yoshinobu Miyake Japan (JPN)	Isaac Berger United States (USA)	Mieczysław Nowak Poland (POL)
Lightweight 60–67.5 kg	Waldemar Baszanowski Poland (POL)	Vladimir Kaplunov Soviet Union (URS)	Marian Zielinski Poland (POL)
Middleweight 67.5–75 kg	Hans Zdrazila Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Viktor Kurentsov Soviet Union (URS)	Masashi Ohuchi Japan (JPN)
Light-heavyweight 75–82.5 kg	Rudolf Plyukfelder Soviet Union (URS)	Géza Tóth Hungary (HUN)	Gyõzõ Veres Hungary (HUN)
Middle-heavyweight 82.5–90 kg	Vladimir Golovanov Soviet Union (URS)	Louis Martin Great Britain (GBR)	Ireneusz Palinski Poland (POL)
Heavyweight +90 kg	Leonid Zhabotinsky Soviet Union (URS)	Yury Vlasov Soviet Union (URS)	Norbert Schemansky United States (USA)

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	3	0	7
2	Poland (POL)	1	0	3	4
3	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
6	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1

[edit] Reference

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-12-21.

Events at the 1964 Summer Olympics (Tokyo)
Athletics • Baseball (demonstration) • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Judo • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Volleyball • 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