1973 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City	La Habana
Country	CUB
Held	15 – 23 September 1973
Competitors	39
Countries	13

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	12	8	2	22
2	Bulgaria	BUL	7	7	3	17
3	Japan	JPN	2	0	3	5
4	Iran	IRI	2	0	0	2
5	East Germany	GDR	1	6	5	12
6	Hungary	HUN	1	3	1	5
7	Germany	GER	1	1	1	3
8	Norway	NOR	1	0	0	1
9	Poland	POL	0	1	5	6
10	Cuba	CUB	0	1	2	3
11	Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	0	3	3
12	Austria	AUT	0	0	1	1
=	Romania	ROU	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
flyweight -52 kg Snatch, Men	Takeshi Horikoshi	JPN	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL	Ion Hortopan	ROU
flyweight -52 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Mohammad Nassiri	IRI	Lajos Szűcs	HUN	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL
flyweight -52 kg Total, Men	Mohammad Nassiri	IRI	Lajos Szűcs	HUN	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL
bantamweight -56 kg Snatch, Men	Koji Miki	JPN	Georgi Todorov	BUL	Atanas Kirov	BUL
bantamweight -56 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Atanas Kirov	BUL	Georgi Todorov	BUL	Karel Prohl	TCH
bantamweight -56 kg Total, Men	Atanas Kirov	BUL	Georgi Todorov	BUL	Koji Miki	JPN
featherweight -60 kg Snatch, Men	János Benedek	HUN	Dito Shanidze	URS	Kurt Pittner	AUT
featherweight -60 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Norayr Nurikyan	BUL	Dito Shanidze	URS	Kazumasa Hirai	JPN
featherweight -60 kg Total, Men	Dito Shanidze	URS	Norayr Nurikyan	BUL	Jan Wojnowski	POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Snatch, Men	Mladen Kuchev	BUL	Mukharby Kirzhinov	URS	Petar Yanev	BUL
lightweight -67.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Mukharby Kirzhinov	URS	Mladen Kuchev	BUL	Masao Kato	JPN
lightweight -67.5 kg Total, Men	Mukharby Kirzhinov	URS	Mladen Kuchev	BUL	Petar Yanev	BUL
middleweight -75 kg Snatch, Men	Nedelcho Kolev	BUL	Peter Wenzel	GDR	Ondrej Hekel	TCH
middleweight -75 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Nedelcho Kolev	BUL	András Stark	HUN	Peter Wenzel	GDR
middleweight -75 kg Total, Men	Nedelcho Kolev	BUL	Peter Wenzel	GDR	András Stark	HUN
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Snatch, Men	Leif Jensen	NOR	Vladimir Ryzhenkov	URS	Frank Zielecke	GDR
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Frank Zielecke	GDR	Vladimir Ryzhenkov	URS	Stefan Sochański	POL
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total, Men	Vladimir Ryzhenkov	URS	Frank Zielecke	GDR	Stefan Sochański	POL
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Snatch, Men	David Rigert	URS	Andon Nikolov	BUL	Peter Petzold	GDR
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Vasily Kolotov	URS	David Rigert	URS	Peter Petzold	GDR
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total, Men	David Rigert	URS	Vasily Kolotov	URS	Peter Petzold	GDR
heavyweight -110 kg Snatch, Men	Pavel Pervushin	URS	Javier González	CUB	Rudolf Strejček	TCH
heavyweight -110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Pavel Pervushin	URS	Helmut Losch	GDR	Javier González	CUB
heavyweight -110 kg Total, Men	Pavel Pervushin	URS	Helmut Losch	GDR	Javier González	CUB
super-heavyweight +110 kg Snatch, Men	Rudolf Mang	GER	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Stanislav Batishchev	URS
super-heavyweight +110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Gerd Bonk	GDR	Rudolf Mang	GER
super-heavyweight +110 kg Total, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Rudolf Mang	GER	Stanislav Batishchev	URS