1956 European Weightlifting Championships

Host City Helsinki
Country FIN
Held 27 – 30 June 1956
Competitors 21
Countries 8

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 2
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 6 1 0 7
2 France FRA 1 0 0 1
3 Italy ITA 0 2 1 3
4 Poland POL 0 1 2 3
5 Austria AUT 0 1 1 2
= Bulgaria BUL 0 1 1 2
= Czechoslovakia TCH 0 1 1 2
8 Germany GER 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men Vladimir Stogov URS Stoyan Georgiev BUL Karel Saitl TCH
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men Rapael Chimishk'iani URS Sebastiano Mannironi ITA Marian Zieliński POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Nikolay Kostylev URS Josef Tauchner AUT Luciano De Genova ITA
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men Igor Rybak URS Krzysztof Beck POL Jan Czepułkowski POL
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Trofim Lomakin URS Václav Pšenička, Jr. TCH Günter Siebert GER
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Jean Debuf FRA Fyodor Osypa URS Ivan Veselinov BUL
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Aleksey Medvedev URS Alberto Pigaiani ITA Franz Hölbl AUT