1971 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City Lima
Country PER
Held 18 – 26 September 1971
Competitors 47
Countries 18

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
flyweight -52 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
flyweight -52 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
flyweight -52 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
flyweight -52 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
bantamweight -56 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
bantamweight -56 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
bantamweight -56 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
featherweight -60 kg Press Men — Medal 3 2
featherweight -60 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 2
featherweight -60 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 2
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 2
lightweight -67.5 kg Press Men — Medal 3 2
lightweight -67.5 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
lightweight -67.5 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 2
middleweight -75 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
middleweight -75 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
middleweight -75 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Press Men — Medal 3 2
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 2
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 2
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 2
heavyweight -110 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
heavyweight -110 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
heavyweight -110 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 2
heavyweight -110 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3
super-heavyweight +110 kg Press Men — Medal 3 3
super-heavyweight +110 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
super-heavyweight +110 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
super-heavyweight +110 kg Total (three lifts) Men — Medal 3 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 16 8 4 28
2 Poland POL 7 3 3 13
3 Japan JPN 4 5 4 13
4 East Germany GDR 2 2 0 4
5 Hungary HUN 1 4 1 6
6 United States USA 1 3 4 8
7 Iran IRI 1 3 1 5
8 Bulgaria BUL 1 2 6 9
9 Finland FIN 1 2 1 4
10 Norway NOR 1 1 0 2
11 Greece GRE 1 0 0 1
12 Italy ITA 0 1 3 4
13 Sweden SWE 0 1 2 3
14 Belgium BEL 0 1 1 2
15 Austria AUT 0 0 2 2
= Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 2 2
17 Colombia COL 0 0 1 1
= Cuba CUB 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
flyweight -52 kg Press, Men Sándor Holczreiter HUN Zygmunt Smalcerz POL Masahiro Ueki JPN
flyweight -52 kg Snatch, Men Zygmunt Smalcerz POL Sándor Holczreiter HUN Juan Romero COL
flyweight -52 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Zygmunt Smalcerz POL Mustar Mustafov BUL Masahiro Ueki JPN
flyweight -52 kg Total (three lifts), Men Zygmunt Smalcerz POL Sándor Holczreiter HUN Masahiro Ueki JPN
bantamweight -56 kg Press, Men Mohammad Nassiri IRI Imre Földi HUN Henryk Trębicki POL
bantamweight -56 kg Snatch, Men Henryk Trębicki POL Gennady Chetin URS Jiro Hosotani JPN
bantamweight -56 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Gennady Chetin URS Mohammad Nassiri IRI Atanas Kirov BUL
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men Gennady Chetin URS Henryk Trębicki POL Mohammad Nassiri IRI
featherweight -60 kg Press, Men Yoshiyuki Miyake JPN Kenkichi Ando JPN Kurt Pittner AUT
featherweight -60 kg Snatch, Men Yoshiyuki Miyake JPN Kenkichi Ando JPN Kurt Pittner AUT
featherweight -60 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Yoshiyuki Miyake JPN Kenkichi Ando JPN Norayr Nurikyan BUL
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men Yoshiyuki Miyake JPN Kenkichi Ando JPN Norayr Nurikyan BUL
lightweight -67.5 kg Press, Men Zbigniew Kaczmarek POL Nasrollah Dehnavi IRI Waldemar Baszanowski POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Snatch, Men Waldemar Baszanowski POL Masayuki Yano JPN Mukharby Kirzhinov URS
lightweight -67.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Mukharby Kirzhinov URS Nasrollah Dehnavi IRI Waldemar Baszanowski POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Zbigniew Kaczmarek POL Waldemar Baszanowski POL Mukharby Kirzhinov URS
middleweight -75 kg Press, Men Russ Knipp USA Vladimir Kanygin URS Anselmo Silvino ITA
middleweight -75 kg Snatch, Men Leif Jensen NOR Vladimir Kanygin URS Ondrej Hekel TCH
middleweight -75 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Yordan Bikov BUL Anselmo Silvino ITA Ondrej Hekel TCH
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men Vladimir Kanygin URS Leif Jensen NOR Anselmo Silvino ITA
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Press, Men Christos Iakovou GRE Boris Pavlov URS Kaarlo Kangasniemi FIN
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Snatch, Men Kaarlo Kangasniemi FIN Boris Pavlov URS Mike Karchut USA
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Boris Pavlov URS György Horváth HUN Mike Karchut USA
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Boris Pavlov URS Kaarlo Kangasniemi FIN György Horváth HUN
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Press, Men Vasily Kolotov URS Hans Bettembourg SWE David Rigert URS
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Snatch, Men David Rigert URS Vasily Kolotov URS Bo Johansson SWE
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Clean & Jerk, Men David Rigert URS Vasily Kolotov URS Rick Holbrook USA
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men David Rigert URS Vasily Kolotov URS Bo Johansson SWE
heavyweight -110 kg Press, Men Yury Kozin URS Aleksandar Kraychev BUL Roberto Vezzani ITA
heavyweight -110 kg Snatch, Men Stefan Grützner GDR Kauko Kangasniemi FIN Aleksandar Kraychev BUL
heavyweight -110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Helmut Losch GDR Stefan Grützner GDR Yury Kozin URS
heavyweight -110 kg Total (three lifts), Men Yury Kozin URS Stefan Grützner GDR Aleksandar Kraychev BUL
super-heavyweight +110 kg Press, Men Vasily Alekseyev URS Serge Reding BEL Ken Patera USA
super-heavyweight +110 kg Snatch, Men Vasily Alekseyev URS Ken Patera USA Serge Reding BEL
super-heavyweight +110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Vasily Alekseyev URS Ken Patera USA Fernando Bernal CUB
super-heavyweight +110 kg Total (three lifts), Men Vasily Alekseyev URS Ken Patera USA Ivan Atanasov BUL