1965 European Weightlifting Championships

Host City Sofia
Country BUL
Held 7 – 13 June 1965
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 2
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 3
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 3 2 0 5
2 Poland POL 2 1 2 5
3 Hungary HUN 1 1 0 2
4 Great Britain GBR 1 0 0 1
5 Bulgaria BUL 0 1 2 3
6 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 1 1 2
= East Germany GDR 0 1 1 2
8 France FRA 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men Aleksey Vakhonin URS Imre Földi HUN Henryk Trębicki POL
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men Mieczysław Nowak POL Rudolf Kozłowski POL Vasil Petkow BUL
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Waldemar Baszanowski POL Vladimir Kaplunov URS Zdeněk Otáhal TCH
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men Viktor Kurentsov URS Werner Dittrich GDR Rolf Maier FRA
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Aleksandr Kidyayev URS Hans Zdražila TCH Norbert Ozimek POL
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Louis Martin GBR Anatoly Kalnichenko URS Petar Tachev BUL
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Károly Ecser HUN Ivan Veselinov BUL Kurt Stemplinger GDR