1966 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City Ost-Berlin
Country GDR
Held 15 – 21 October 1966
Competitors 21
Countries 8

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 2
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 2
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 2

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 5 0 1 6
2 Hungary HUN 1 2 0 3
3 Japan JPN 1 0 1 2
4 Poland POL 0 4 1 5
5 United States USA 0 1 0 1
6 Iran IRI 0 0 2 2
7 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 1 1
= East Germany GDR 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men Aleksey Vakhonin URS Imre Földi HUN Mohammad Nassiri IRI
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men Yoshinobu Miyake JPN Mieczysław Nowak POL Yoshiyuki Miyake JPN
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Yevgeny Katsura URS Marian Zieliński POL Parviz Jalayer IRI
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men Viktor Kurentsov URS Waldemar Baszanowski POL Werner Dittrich GDR
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Vladimir Belyayev URS Győző Veres HUN Hans Zdražila TCH
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Géza Tóth HUN Ireneusz Paliński POL Marek Gołąb POL
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Leonid Zhabotinsky URS Robert Bednarski USA Stanislav Batishchev URS