1966 European Weightlifting Championships

Host City Ost-Berlin
Country GDR
Held 15 – 21 October 1966
Competitors 21
Countries 6

World Championships

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 2
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 2
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts) Men Medal 3 2

Medal table

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

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men Aleksey Vakhonin URS Imre Földi HUN Róbert Nagy HUN
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men Mieczysław Nowak POL Rudolf Kozłowski POL Sebastiano Mannironi ITA
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Yevgeny Katsura URS Marian Zieliński POL János Bagócs HUN
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men Viktor Kurentsov URS Waldemar Baszanowski POL Werner Dittrich GDR
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men Vladimir Belyayev URS Győző Veres HUN Hans Zdražila TCH
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Géza Tóth HUN Ireneusz Paliński POL Marek Gołąb POL
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts), Men Leonid Zhabotinsky URS Stanislav Batishchev URS Manfred Rieger GDR