1959 European Weightlifting Championships

Host City	Warszawa
Country	POL
Held	29 September – 4 October 1959
Competitors	21
Countries	8

World Championships

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	5	2	0	7
2	Poland	POL	1	3	2	6
3	Great Britain	GBR	1	0	0	1
4	Bulgaria	BUL	0	1	1	2
5	Italy	ITA	0	1	0	1
6	Hungary	HUN	0	0	2	2
7	Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	0	1	1
=	Finland	FIN	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Vladimir Stogov bodyweight: 55.9 kg	URS	Marian Jankowski bodyweight: 55.7 kg	POL	Imre Földi bodyweight: 55.5 kg	HUN
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Marian Zieliński bodyweight: 59.9 kg	POL	Sebastiano Mannironi bodyweight: 59.3 kg	ITA	Kiril Yankov bodyweight: 59.8 kg	BUL
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Viktor Bushuyev bodyweight: 67.5 kg	URS	Akop Faradzhyan bodyweight: 66.9 kg	URS	Jan Czepułkowski bodyweight: 67.1 kg	POL
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Fyodor Bogdanovsky bodyweight: 75.0 kg	URS	Jan Bochenek bodyweight: 74.7 kg	POL	Győző Veres bodyweight: 74.3 kg	HUN
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Rudolf Plyukfelder bodyweight: 81.6 kg	URS	Ireneusz Paliński bodyweight: 82.0 kg	POL	Václav Pšenička, Jr. bodyweight: 82.1 kg	TCH
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Louis Martin bodyweight: 88.6 kg	GBR	Arkady Vorobyov bodyweight: 89.7 kg	URS	Czesław Białas bodyweight: 89.3 kg	POL
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Yury Vlasov bodyweight: 115.0 kg	URS	Ivan Veselinov bodyweight: 164.3 kg	BUL	Eino Mäkinen bodyweight: 110.0 kg	FIN