1964 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City Tokyo
Country JPN
Held 11 – 18 October 1964
Competitors 21
Countries 7

Olympic Games

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
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 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

Medal winners

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