1957 European Weightlifting Championships

Host City	Katowice
Country	POL
Held	19 – 22 September 1957
Competitors	21
Countries	7

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	6	0	0	6
2	Poland	POL	1	2	4	7
3	Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	1	2	3
4	East Germany	GDR	0	1	1	2
5	Finland	FIN	0	1	0	1
=	France	FRA	0	1	0	1
=	Hungary	HUN	0	1	0	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Vladimir Vilkhovsky bodyweight: 55.5 kg	URS	Marian Jankowski bodyweight: 55.8 kg	POL	Zbigniew Rusinowicz bodyweight: 55.5 kg	POL
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Rapael Chimishk'iani bodyweight: 59.6 kg	URS	István Balogh bodyweight: 59.6 kg	HUN	Georg Miske bodyweight: 60.0 kg	GDR
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Bakir Farkhutdinov bodyweight: 67.5 kg	URS	Jan Czepułkowski bodyweight: 67.3 kg	POL	Marian Zieliński bodyweight: 63.4 kg	POL
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Hasan Yagly-Ogly bodyweight: 74.7 kg	URS	Marcel Paterni bodyweight: 74.8 kg	FRA	Jan Bochenek bodyweight: 75.0 kg	POL
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Matvey Rudman bodyweight: 82.3 kg	URS	Václav Pšenička, Jr. bodyweight: 82.4 kg	TCH	Ireneusz Paliński bodyweight: 82.2 kg	POL
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Czesław Białas bodyweight: 89.0 kg	POL	Dieter Göhring bodyweight: 83.6 kg	GDR	Zdeněk Srstka bodyweight: 87.4 kg	TCH
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Yevgeny Novikov bodyweight: 118.8 kg	URS	Eino Mäkinen bodyweight: 110.5 kg	FIN	Václav Syrový bodyweight: 134.5 kg	TCH