Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. The middle-heavyweight division was a newly created weight class, moving the heavyweight class up from 82.5 kg to 90 kg. The events were held at Messuhalli.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Ivan Udodov (URS)	Mahmoud Namjoo (IRI)	Ali Mirzaei (IRI)
Featherweight	Rafael Chimishkyan (URS)	Nikolai Saksonov (URS)	Rodney Wilkes (TRI)
Lightweight	Tommy Kono (USA)	Yevgeni Lopatin (URS)	Vern Barberis (AUS)
Middleweight	Peter George (USA)	Gérald Gratton (CAN)	Kim Sung-Jip (KOR)
Light-heavyweight	Trofim Lomakin (URS)	Stanley Stanczyk (USA)	Arkady Vorobyev (URS)
Middle-heavyweight	Norbert Schemansky (USA)	Grigory Novak (URS)	Lennox Kilgour (TRI)
Heavyweight	John Davis (USA)	James Bradford (USA)	Humberto Selvetti (ARG)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	2	0	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	3	1	7
3	Iran (IRI)	0	1	1	2
4	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
5	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	0	2	2
6	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Total	7	7	7	21

References

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

Events at the 1952 Summer Olympics (Helsinki)

Athletics Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gymnastics Handball (demonstration) Modern pentathlon Pesäpallo (demonstration) Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics

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