1963 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City Stockholm
Country SWE
Held 16 – 22 September 1963
Competitors 21
Countries 7

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 2
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 2
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 2
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 2

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 3 1 3 7
2 Poland POL 1 2 0 3
3 Hungary HUN 1 1 2 4
4 Japan JPN 1 1 1 3
5 Great Britain GBR 1 0 0 1
6 United States USA 0 2 0 2
7 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men Aleksey Vakhonin URS Hiroshi Fukuda JPN Shiro Ichinoseki JPN
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men Yoshinobu Miyake JPN Ike Berger USA Imre Földi HUN
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Marian Zieliński POL Waldemar Baszanowski POL Vladimir Kaplunov URS
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men Aleksandr Kurynov URS Mihály Huszka HUN Hans Zdražila TCH
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Győző Veres HUN Rudolf Plyukfelder URS Géza Tóth HUN
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Louis Martin GBR Ireneusz Paliński POL Eduard Brovko URS
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Yury Vlasov URS Norb Schemansky USA Leonid Zhabotinsky URS