Weightlifting at the Asian Games

Weightlifting has been an event at the Asian Games since 1951 in New Delhi.

Editions

Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Best nation
I	1951	New Delhi	India	Iran (IRI)
II	1954	Manila	Philippines	South Korea (KOR)
III	1958	Tokyo	Japan	Iran (IRI)
V	1966	Bangkok	Thailand	Iran (IRI)
VI	1970	Bangkok	Thailand	Japan (JPN)
VII	1974	Tehran	Iran	Iran (IRI)
VIII	1978	Bangkok	Thailand	North Korea (PRK)
IX	1982	New Delhi	India	China (CHN)
X	1986	Seoul	South Korea	China (CHN)
XI	1990	Beijing	China	China (CHN)
XII	1994	Hiroshima	Japan	China (CHN)
XIII	1998	Bangkok	Thailand	China (CHN)
XIV	2002	Busan	South Korea	China (CHN)
XV	2006	Doha	Qatar	China (CHN)
XVI	2010	Guangzhou	China	China (CHN)
XVII	2014	Incheon	South Korea	China (CHN)

Events

Men's events

Women's events

Records

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	81	35	12	128
2	Iran (IRI)	31	29	19	79
3	South Korea (KOR)	31	26	29	86
4	Japan (JPN)	23	19	28	70
5	North Korea (PRK)	14	23	18	55
6	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	12	9	8	29
7	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3	10	17	30
8	Myanmar (MYA)	3	8	13	24
9	Syria (SYR)	3	0	0	3
10	Thailand (THA)	2	12	8	22
11	Lebanon (LIB)	2	2	1	5
12	Singapore (SIN)	1	3	2	6
13	Qatar (QAT)	1	1	0	2
14	Turkmenistan (TKM)	1	0	0	1
15	Indonesia (INA)	0	7	13	20
16	Iraq (IRQ)	0	6	10	16
17	India (IND)	0	5	9	14
18	Philippines (PHI)	0	5	3	8
19	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	4	8	12
20	Vietnam (VIE)	0	2	0	2
21	Israel (ISR)	0	1	4	5
22	Pakistan (PAK)	0	1	3	4
23	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	0	1	1
Total		208	208	208	624

External links

• Asian Weightlifting Confederation

Weightlifting at the Asian Games 1951 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 List of medalists List of records