Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Joseph De Pietro (USA)	Julian Creus (GBR)	Richard Tom (USA)
Featherweight	Mahmoud Fayad (EGY)	Rodney Wilkes (TRI)	Jafar Salmasi (IRI)
Lightweight	Ibrahim Shams (EGY)	Attia Hamouda (EGY)	James Halliday (GBR)
Middleweight	Frank Spellman (USA)	Peter George (USA)	Kim Sung-Jip (KOR)
Light-heavyweight	Stanley Stanczyk (USA)	Harold Sakata (USA)	Gösta Magnusson (SWE)
Heavyweight	John Davis (USA)	Norbert Schemansky (USA)	Abraham Charite (NED)

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
	Total	6	6	6	18

References

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

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