1970 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City	Columbus, Ohio
Country	USA
Held	12 – 20 September 1970
Competitors	54
Countries	19

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	16	6	3	25
2	Poland	POL	7	11	5	23
3	Hungary	HUN	5	3	7	15
4	Finland	FIN	2	1	2	5
5	Iran	IRI	2	0	1	3
6	Belgium	BEL	1	3	0	4
7	Bulgaria	BUL	1	2	1	4
8	France	FRA	1	0	2	3
9	Philippines	PHI	1	0	1	2
10	Japan	JPN	0	2	5	7
=	United States	USA	0	2	5	7
12	Norway	NOR	0	2	0	2
13	Germany	GER	0	1	0	1
=	Indonesia	INA	0	1	0	1
=	Italy	ITA	0	1	0	1
=	Puerto Rico	PUR	0	1	0	1
17	East Germany	GDR	0	0	2	2
18	Lebanon	LBN	0	0	1	1
=	South Korea	KOR	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
flyweight -52 kg Press, Men	Sándor Holczreiter	HUN	Vladislav Krishchishin	URS	Vladimir Smetanin	URS
flyweight -52 kg Snatch, Men	Walter Szołtysek	POL	Vladimir Smetanin	URS	Salvador del Rosario	PHI
flyweight -52 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Salvador del Rosario	PHI	Charlie Depthios	INA	Walter Szołtysek	POL
flyweight -52 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Sándor Holczreiter	HUN	Walter Szołtysek	POL	Vladimir Smetanin	URS
bantamweight -56 kg Press, Men	Imre Földi	HUN	Fernando Báez	PUR	Mohammad Nassiri	IRI
bantamweight -56 kg Snatch, Men	Henryk Trębicki	POL	Kenkichi Ando	JPN	Imre Földi	HUN
bantamweight -56 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Mohammad Nassiri	IRI	Imre Földi	HUN	Kenkichi Ando	JPN
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Mohammad Nassiri	IRI	Imre Földi	HUN	Henryk Trębicki	POL
featherweight -60 kg Press, Men	Mladen Kuchev	BUL	Mieczysław Nowak	POL	Yoshinobu Miyake	JPN
featherweight -60 kg Snatch, Men	Jan Wojnowski	POL	Yoshiyuki Miyake	JPN	Mieczysław Nowak	POL
featherweight -60 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Mieczysław Nowak	POL	Jan Wojnowski	POL	János Benedek	HUN
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Mieczysław Nowak	POL	Jan Wojnowski	POL	Yoshiyuki Miyake	JPN
lightweight -67.5 kg Press, Men	János Bagócs	HUN	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Snatch, Men	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Yusaku Ono	JPN
lightweight -67.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	János Bagócs	HUN	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Won Sin-Hui	KOR
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL	János Bagócs	HUN
middleweight -75 kg Press, Men	Viktor Kurentsov	URS	Ari Kurko	FIN	Werner Dittrich	GDR
middleweight -75 kg Snatch, Men	Aimé Terme	FRA	Leif Jensen	NOR	Mohamed Kheir Tarabulsi	LBN
middleweight -75 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Viktor Kurentsov	URS	Gábor Szarvas	HUN	Yordan Bikov	BUL
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Viktor Kurentsov	URS	Leif Jensen	NOR	Gábor Szarvas	HUN
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Press, Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	Norbert Ozimek	POL	György Horváth	HUN
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Snatch, Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	David Rigert	URS	Masashi Ohuchi	JPN
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	Norbert Ozimek	POL	Mike Karchut	USA
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	Norbert Ozimek	POL	David Rigert	URS
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Press, Men	Vasily Kolotov	URS	Jean-Pierre Van Lerberghe	BEL	Marek Gołąb	POL
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Snatch, Men	Vasily Kolotov	URS	Rainer Dörrzapf	GER	Pierre Gourrier	FRA
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Vasily Kolotov	URS	Phil Grippaldi	USA	Géza Tóth	HUN
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Vasily Kolotov	URS	Phil Grippaldi	USA	Géza Tóth	HUN
heavyweight -110 kg Press, Men	Jaan Talts	URS	Aleksandar Kraychev	BUL	Robert Bednarski	USA
heavyweight -110 kg Snatch, Men	Kauko Kangasniemi	FIN	Jaan Talts	URS	Jean-Paul Fouletier	FRA
heavyweight -110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Jaan Talts	URS	Roberto Vezzani	ITA	Robert Bednarski	USA
heavyweight -110 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Jaan Talts	URS	Aleksandar Kraychev	BUL	Robert Bednarski	USA
super-heavyweight +110 kg Press, Men	Serge Reding	BEL	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Ken Patera	USA
super-heavyweight +110 kg Snatch, Men	Kalevi Lahdenranta	FIN	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Manfred Rieger	GDR
super-heavyweight +110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Serge Reding	BEL	Kalevi Lahdenranta	FIN
super-heavyweight +110 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Serge Reding	BEL	Kalevi Lahdenranta	FIN