1957 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City	Tehran
Country	IRI
Held	8 – 12 November 1957
Competitors	21
Countries	7

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	6	1	0	7
2	United States	USA	1	1	1	3
3	Iran	IRI	0	2	3	5
4	Italy	ITA	0	1	1	2
5	Argentina	ARG	0	1	0	1
=	Bulgaria	BUL	0	1	0	1
7	Poland	POL	0	0	2	2

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Vladimir Stogov bodyweight: 56.0 kg	URS	Ali Safa Sonboli bodyweight: 56.0 kg	IRI	Mahmoud Namdjou bodyweight: 56.0 kg	IRI
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Yevgeny Minayev bodyweight: 60.0 kg	URS	Sebastiano Mannironi bodyweight: 60.0 kg	ITA	Ike Berger bodyweight: 59.6 kg	USA
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Viktor Bushuyev bodyweight: 67.5 kg	URS	Ivan Abadzhiev bodyweight: 67.4 kg	BUL	Jan Czepułkowski bodyweight: 67.1 kg	POL
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Tommy Kono bodyweight: 74.3 kg	USA	Fyodor Bogdanovsky bodyweight: 74.9 kg	URS	Jan Bochenek bodyweight: 75.0 kg	POL
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Trofim Lomakin bodyweight: 82.4 kg	URS	Jim George bodyweight: 79.1 kg	USA	Jalal Mansouri bodyweight: 81.8 kg	IRI
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Arkady Vorobyov bodyweight: 89.7 kg	URS	Hassan Rahnavardi bodyweight: 89.1 kg	IRI	Firouz Pojhan bodyweight: 89.9 kg	IRI
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Aleksey Medvedev bodyweight: 119.2 kg	URS	Humberto Selvetti bodyweight: 139.6 kg	ARG	Alberto Pigaiani bodyweight: 138.5 kg	ITA