1974 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City	Manila
Country	PHI
Held	21 – 29 September 1974
Competitors	38
Countries	11

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	13	5	4	22
2	Bulgaria	BUL	8	8	5	21
3	Iran	IRI	2	1	3	6
4	Poland	POL	1	4	3	8
5	East Germany	GDR	1	3	6	10
6	Japan	JPN	1	1	2	4
7	Hungary	HUN	1	1	1	3
8	Norway	NOR	0	2	1	3
9	Belgium	BEL	0	2	0	2
10	Finland	FIN	0	0	1	1
=	Germany	GER	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
flyweight -52 kg Snatch, Men	György Kőszegi	HUN	Takeshi Horikoshi	JPN	Mohammad Nassiri	IRI
flyweight -52 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Mohammad Nassiri	IRI	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL	Lajos Szűcs	HUN
flyweight -52 kg Total, Men	Mohammad Nassiri	IRI	György Kőszegi	HUN	Takeshi Horikoshi	JPN
bantamweight -56 kg Snatch, Men	Leszek Skorupa	POL	Atanas Kirov	BUL	Davoud Maleki	IRI
bantamweight -56 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Jiro Hosotani	JPN	Atanas Kirov	BUL	Leszek Skorupa	POL
bantamweight -56 kg Total, Men	Atanas Kirov	BUL	Leszek Skorupa	POL	Jiro Hosotani	JPN
featherweight -60 kg Snatch, Men	Georgi Todorov	BUL	Norayr Nurikyan	BUL	Jan Wojnowski	POL
featherweight -60 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Nikolay Kolesnikov	URS	Georgi Todorov	BUL	Norayr Nurikyan	BUL
featherweight -60 kg Total, Men	Georgi Todorov	BUL	Nikolay Kolesnikov	URS	Norayr Nurikyan	BUL
lightweight -67.5 kg Snatch, Men	Pyotr Korol	URS	Nasrollah Dehnavi	IRI	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Pyotr Korol	URS	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Mukharby Kirzhinov	URS
lightweight -67.5 kg Total, Men	Pyotr Korol	URS	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Nasrollah Dehnavi	IRI
middleweight -75 kg Snatch, Men	Rumen Rusev	BUL	Nedelcho Kolev	BUL	Peter Wenzel	GDR
middleweight -75 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Nedelcho Kolev	BUL	Peter Wenzel	GDR	Rumen Rusev	BUL
middleweight -75 kg Total, Men	Nedelcho Kolev	BUL	Rumen Rusev	BUL	Peter Wenzel	GDR
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Snatch, Men	Vladimir Ryzhenkov	URS	Trendafil Stoychev	BUL	Leif Jensen	NOR
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Trendafil Stoychev	BUL	Leif Jensen	NOR	Tsvetko Petkov	BUL
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total, Men	Trendafil Stoychev	BUL	Leif Jensen	NOR	Rolf Milser	GER
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Snatch, Men	David Rigert	URS	Sergey Poltoratsky	URS	Jaakko Kailajärvi	FIN
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	David Rigert	URS	Sergey Poltoratsky	URS	Andon Nikolov	BUL
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total, Men	David Rigert	URS	Sergey Poltoratsky	URS	Peter Petzold	GDR
heavyweight -110 kg Snatch, Men	Valery Ustyuzhin	URS	Jürgen Ciezki	GDR	Yury Zaytsev	URS
heavyweight -110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Jürgen Ciezki	GDR	Valery Ustyuzhin	URS	Yury Zaytsev	URS
heavyweight -110 kg Total, Men	Valery Ustyuzhin	URS	Jürgen Ciezki	GDR	Yury Zaytsev	URS
super-heavyweight +110 kg Snatch, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Hristo Plachkov	BUL	Gerd Bonk	GDR
super-heavyweight +110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Serge Reding	BEL	Jürgen Heuser	GDR
super-heavyweight +110 kg Total, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Serge Reding	BEL	Jürgen Heuser	GDR