Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. It also counted as 1964 World Weightlifting Championships.

Weightlifting at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics on a stamp of Japan.
Venue	Shibuya Public Hall
Dates	11–18 October 1964
Competitors	149 from 42 nations

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight (56 kg)	Aleksey Vakhonin  Soviet Union	357.5 kg	Imre Földi  Hungary	355.0 kg	Shiro Ichinoseki  Japan	347.5 kg
Featherweight (60 kg)	Yoshinobu Miyake  Japan	397.5 kg	Isaac Berger  United States	382.5 kg	Mieczysław Nowak  Poland	377.5 kg
Lightweight (67.5 kg)	Waldemar Baszanowski  Poland	432.5 kg	Vladimir Kaplunov  Soviet Union	432.5 kg	Marian Zieliński  Poland	420.0 kg
Middleweight (75 kg)	Hans Zdražila  Czechoslovakia	445.0 kg	Viktor Kurentsov  Soviet Union	440.0 kg	Masushi Ouchi  Japan	437.5 kg
Light heavyweight (82.5 kg)	Rudolf Plyukfelder  Soviet Union	475.0 kg	Géza Tóth  Hungary	467.5 kg	Győző Veres  Hungary	467.5 kg
Middle heavyweight (90 kg)	Vladimir Golovanov  Soviet Union	487.5 kg	Louis Martin  Great Britain	475.0 kg	Ireneusz Paliński  Poland	467.5 kg
Heavyweight (+90 kg)	Leonid Zhabotinsky  Soviet Union	572.5 kg	Yury Vlasov  Soviet Union	570.0 kg	Norbert Schemansky  United States	537.5 kg

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	3	0	7
2	Poland (POL)	1	0	3	4
3	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
6	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

See also

• World Weightlifting Championships

External links

• olympic.prv
• todor66
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 December 2006.