Weightlifting at the 1958 Asian Games

Weightlifting
at the 1958 Asian Games
Weightlifting ; at the 1958 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium Gymnasium
Dates	25–28 May
Competitors	60 from 11 nations
	← 1954 1966 →

Weightlifting was contested from May 25 to May 28 at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo Main Stadium Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan. The competition included only men's events for eight different weight categories.

Iran finished first at the medal table by winning three gold medals.

Schedule

A	Group A

Event↓/Date →	25th Sun	26th Mon	27th Tue	28th Wed
Men's 52 kg	A
Men's 56 kg	A
Men's 60 kg		A
Men's 67.5 kg		A
Men's 75 kg			A
Men's 82.5 kg			A
Men's 90 kg				A
Men's +90 kg				A

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (52 kg) details	Lee Jang-woo South Korea	Esmaeil Elmkhah Iran	Keiji Hagio Japan
Bantamweight (56 kg) details	Shigeo Kogure Japan	Mahmoud Namjoo Iran	Alberto Nogar Philippines
Featherweight (60 kg) details	Lee Taik-yong South Korea	Ali Safa-Sonboli Iran	Fumio Takeda Japan
Lightweight (67.5 kg) details	Tan Howe Liang Singapore	Kenji Onuma Japan	Henrik Tamraz Iran
Middleweight (75 kg) details	Ko Bu-beng Republic of China	Ebrahim Peiravi Iran	Yoshio Hara Japan
Light heavyweight (82.5 kg) details	Jalal Mansouri Iran	Minoru Kubota Japan	Park Dong-cheol South Korea
Middle heavyweight (90 kg) details	Hassan Rahnavardi Iran	Hwang Ho-dong South Korea	Tan Kim Bee Malaya
Heavyweight (+90 kg) details	Firouz Pojhan Iran	Lee Young-wan South Korea	Gisaburo Seyama Japan

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iran (IRN)	3	4	1	8
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	1	5
3	Japan (JPN)	1	2	4	7
4	Republic of China (ROC)	1	0	0	1
4	Singapore (SIN)	1	0	0	1
6	Malaya (MAL)	0	0	1	1
6	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24