1963 World Weightlifting Championships
The 1963 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Stockholm, Sweden from September 7 to September 13, 1963. There were 134 men in action from 32 nations.
Medal summary
[edit]| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bantamweight 56 kg |
Aleksey Vakhonin Soviet Union |
345.0 kg | Hiroshi Fukuda Japan |
340.0 kg | Shiro Ichinoseki Japan |
330.0 kg |
| Featherweight 60 kg |
Yoshinobu Miyake Japan |
375.0 kg | Isaac Berger United States |
367.5 kg | Imre Földi Hungary |
365.0 kg |
| Lightweight 67.5 kg |
Marian Zieliński Poland |
417.5 kg | Waldemar Baszanowski Poland |
410.0 kg | Vladimir Kaplunov Soviet Union |
410.0 kg |
| Middleweight 75 kg |
Aleksandr Kurynov Soviet Union |
437.5 kg | Mihály Huszka Hungary |
437.5 kg | Hans Zdražila Czechoslovakia |
422.5 kg |
| Light heavyweight 82.5 kg |
Győző Veres Hungary |
477.5 kg | Rudolf Plyukfelder Soviet Union |
467.5 kg | Géza Tóth Hungary |
450.0 kg |
| Middle heavyweight 90 kg |
Louis Martin Great Britain |
480.0 kg | Ireneusz Paliński Poland |
475.0 kg | Eduard Brovko Soviet Union |
470.0 kg |
| Heavyweight +90 kg |
Yury Vlasov Soviet Union |
557.5 kg | Norbert Schemansky United States |
537.5 kg | Leonid Zhabotinsky Soviet Union |
527.5 kg |
Medal table
[edit]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Poland | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 |  United States | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
References
[edit]- Results (Sport 123)
- Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine