1956 European Weightlifting Championships

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

Events

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 bodyweight: 56.00 kg	URS	Stoyan Georgiev bodyweight: 55.70 kg	BUL	Karel Saitl bodyweight: 55.30 kg	TCH
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Rapael Chimishk'iani bodyweight: 59.85 kg	URS	Sebastiano Mannironi bodyweight: 59.60 kg	ITA	Marian Zieliński bodyweight: 60.00 kg	POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Nikolay Kostylev bodyweight: 67.30 kg	URS	Josef Tauchner bodyweight: 67.50 kg	AUT	Luciano De Genova bodyweight: 66.20 kg	ITA
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Igor Rybak bodyweight: 71.55 kg	URS	Krzysztof Beck bodyweight: 74.725 kg	POL	Jan Bochenek bodyweight: 74.75 kg	POL
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Trofim Lomakin bodyweight: 82.50 kg	URS	Václav Pšenička, Jr. bodyweight: 82.30 kg	TCH	Günter Siebert bodyweight: 82.10 kg	GER
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Jean Debuf bodyweight: 87.50 kg	FRA	Fedir Osypa bodyweight: 89.70 kg	URS	Ivan Veselinov bodyweight: 89.40 kg	BUL
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Aleksey Medvedev bodyweight: 113.40 kg	URS	Alberto Pigaiani bodyweight: 128.90 kg	ITA	Franz Hölbl bodyweight: 121.30 kg	AUT