1977 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City	Stuttgart
Country	GER
Held	17 – 25 September 1977
Competitors	43
Countries	15

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	21	6	2	29
2	Cuba	CUB	3	1	4	8
3	Bulgaria	BUL	2	6	1	9
4	Japan	JPN	2	1	0	3
5	Germany	GER	1	2	1	4
6	Switzerland	SUI	1	0	1	2
7	East Germany	GDR	0	7	7	14
8	Hungary	HUN	0	2	5	7
=	Poland	POL	0	2	5	7
10	China	CHN	0	1	1	2
11	France	FRA	0	1	0	1
=	Iran	IRI	0	1	0	1
13	Romania	ROU	0	0	1	1
=	Sweden	SWE	0	0	1	1
=	United States	USA	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-52 kg Snatch, Men	Aleksandr Voronin	URS	Masatomo Takeuchi	JPN	György Kőszegi	HUN
-52 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Aleksandr Voronin	URS	Mohammad Nassiri	IRI	Francisco Casamayor	CUB
-52 kg Total, Men	Aleksandr Voronin	URS	György Kőszegi	HUN	Francisco Casamayor	CUB
-56 kg Snatch, Men	Daniel Núñez	CUB	Georgi Todorov	BUL	Tadeusz Dembończyk	POL
-56 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Jiro Hosotani	JPN	Chen Manlin	CHN	Frank Mavius	GDR
-56 kg Total, Men	Jiro Hosotani	JPN	Georgi Todorov	BUL	Chen Manlin	CHN
-60 kg Snatch, Men	Nikolay Kolesnikov	URS	Grzegorz Cziura	POL	Yanko Rusev	BUL
-60 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Nikolay Kolesnikov	URS	Yanko Rusev	BUL	Ioan Buta	ROU
-60 kg Total, Men	Nikolay Kolesnikov	URS	Yanko Rusev	BUL	Grzegorz Cziura	POL
-67.5 kg Snatch, Men	Tony Urrutia	CUB	Daniel Senet	FRA	Werner Schraut	GER
-67.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Sergey Pevsner	URS	Tony Urrutia	CUB	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL
-67.5 kg Total, Men	Tony Urrutia	CUB	Sergey Pevsner	URS	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL
-75 kg Snatch, Men	Yuri Vardanyan	URS	Peter Wenzel	GDR	András Stark	HUN
-75 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Yuri Vardanyan	URS	Günter Schliwka	GDR	Peter Wenzel	GDR
-75 kg Total, Men	Yuri Vardanyan	URS	Peter Wenzel	GDR	Günter Schliwka	GDR
-82.5 kg Snatch, Men	Gennady Bessonov	URS	Blagoy Blagoev	BUL	Péter Baczakó	HUN
-82.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Gennady Bessonov	URS	Paweł Rabczewski	POL	Péter Baczakó	HUN
-82.5 kg Total, Men	Gennady Bessonov	URS	Péter Baczakó	HUN	Paweł Rabczewski	POL
-90 kg Snatch, Men	Sergey Poltoratsky	URS	Rolf Milser	GER	Ferenc Antalovics	HUN
-90 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Rolf Milser	GER	Sergey Poltoratsky	URS	Alberto Blanco	CUB
-90 kg Total, Men	Sergey Poltoratsky	URS	Rolf Milser	GER	Alberto Blanco	CUB
-100 kg Snatch, Men	Michel Broillet	SUI	Anatoly Kozlov	URS	Helmut Losch	GDR
-100 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Anatoly Kozlov	URS	Helmut Losch	GDR	Mark Cameron	USA
-100 kg Total, Men	Anatoly Kozlov	URS	Helmut Losch	GDR	Michel Broillet	SUI
-110 kg Snatch, Men	Valentin Hristov	BUL	Jürgen Ciezki	GDR	Yury Zaytsev	URS
-110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Yury Zaytsev	URS	Valentin Hristov	BUL	Leif Nilsson	SWE
-110 kg Total, Men	Valentin Hristov	BUL	Yury Zaytsev	URS	Jürgen Ciezki	GDR
+110 kg Snatch, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Jürgen Heuser	GDR	Aslanbek Yenaldiyev	URS
+110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Aslanbek Yenaldiyev	URS	Jürgen Heuser	GDR
+110 kg Total, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Aslanbek Yenaldiyev	URS	Jürgen Heuser	GDR