Competitors for 1977 World Weightlifting Championships
| Athlete | Country | Sports | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vasily Alekseyev |  URS |
WLT | 7 January 1942 |
| Ferenc Antalovics |  HUN |
WLT | 9 July 1953 |
| Péter Baczakó | HUN |
WLT | 27 September 1951 |
| Gennady Bessonov | URS |
WLT | 28 April 1954 |
| Blagoy Blagoev |  BUL |
WLT | 4 December 1956 |
| Alberto Blanco |  CUB |
WLT | 17 February 1950 |
| Michel Broillet |  SUI |
WLT | 15 July 1944 |
| Ioan Buta |  ROU |
WLT | 14 December 1956 |
| Mark Cameron |  USA |
WLT | 10 October 1952 |
| Francisco Casamayor | CUB |
WLT | 29 January 1949 |
| Chen Manlin |  CHN |
WLT | 1942 |
| Jürgen Ciezki |  GDR |
WLT | 27 May 1952 |
| Grzegorz Cziura |  POL |
WLT | 3 January 1952 |
| Tadeusz Dembończyk | POL |
WLT | 23 December 1955 |
| Jürgen Heuser | GDR |
WLT | 13 March 1953 |
| Jiro Hosotani |  JPN |
WLT | 6 January 1950 |
| Valentin Hristov | BUL |
WLT | 16 March 1956 |
| Zbigniew Kaczmarek | POL |
WLT | 31 July 1946 |
| Nikolay Kolesnikov | URS |
WLT | 15 February 1952 |
| György Kőszegi | HUN |
WLT | 12 September 1950 |
| Anatoly Kozlov | URS |
WLT | 23 February 1954 |
| Helmut Losch | GDR |
WLT | 12 October 1947 |
| Frank Mavius | GDR |
WLT | 15 March 1956 |
| Rolf Milser |  GER |
WLT | 28 June 1951 |
| Mohammad Nassiri |  IRI |
WLT | 1 October 1945 |
| Leif Nilsson |  SWE |
WLT | 16 November 1952 |
| Daniel Núñez | CUB |
WLT | 12 September 1958 |
| Sergey Pevsner | URS |
WLT | 31 October 1948 |
| Sergey Poltoratsky | URS |
WLT | 28 October 1947 |
| Paweł Rabczewski | POL |
WLT | 20 November 1949 |
| Yanko Rusev | BUL |
WLT | 1 December 1958 |
| Günter Schliwka | GDR |
WLT | 9 May 1956 |
| Werner Schraut | GER |
WLT | 25 April 1951 |
| Daniel Senet |  FRA |
WLT | 26 June 1953 |
| András Stark | HUN |
WLT | 27 November 1949 |
| Masatomo Takeuchi | JPN |
WLT | 29 September 1952 |
| Georgi Todorov | BUL |
WLT | 4 December 1952 |
| Tony Urrutia | CUB USA |
WLT | 7 December 1957 |
| Yuri Vardanyan | URS |
WLT | 13 June 1956 |
| Aleksandr Voronin | URS |
WLT | 23 May 1951 |
| Peter Wenzel | GDR |
WLT | 15 April 1952 |
| Aslanbek Yenaldiyev | URS |
WLT | 18 December 1947 |
| Yury Zaytsev | URS |
WLT | 17 January 1951 |