1970 European Weightlifting Championships

Host City	Szombathely
Country	HUN
Held	20 – 28 June 1970
Competitors	46
Countries	11

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	17	7	5	29
2	Hungary	HUN	6	7	5	18
3	Poland	POL	5	7	10	22
4	Finland	FIN	4	4	4	12
5	Bulgaria	BUL	2	3	4	9
6	East Germany	GDR	1	3	4	8
7	Czechoslovakia	TCH	1	0	1	2
8	Sweden	SWE	0	3	1	4
9	France	FRA	0	1	0	1
=	Italy	ITA	0	1	0	1
11	Germany	GER	0	0	2	2

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
flyweight -52 kg Press, Men	Vladislav Krishchishin	URS	Sándor Holczreiter	HUN	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL
flyweight -52 kg Snatch, Men	Vladimir Smetanin	URS	Vladislav Krishchishin	URS	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL
flyweight -52 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Vladislav Krishchishin	URS	Vladimir Smetanin	URS	Sándor Holczreiter	HUN
flyweight -52 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Vladislav Krishchishin	URS	Sándor Holczreiter	HUN	Vladimir Smetanin	URS
bantamweight -56 kg Press, Men	Imre Földi	HUN	Rafael Belenkov	URS	Atanas Kirov	BUL
bantamweight -56 kg Snatch, Men	Mieczysław Nowak	POL	Walter Szołtysek	POL	Karel Prohl	TCH
bantamweight -56 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Mieczysław Nowak	POL	Imre Földi	HUN	Walter Szołtysek	POL
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Imre Földi	HUN	Mieczysław Nowak	POL	Walter Szołtysek	POL
featherweight -60 kg Press, Men	Mladen Kuchev	BUL	János Benedek	HUN	Heinz Becker	GDR
featherweight -60 kg Snatch, Men	Jan Wojnowski	POL	János Benedek	HUN	Mladen Kuchev	BUL
featherweight -60 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Henryk Trębicki	POL	Peppino Tanti	ITA	Mladen Kuchev	BUL
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Mladen Kuchev	BUL	Jan Wojnowski	POL	János Benedek	HUN
lightweight -67.5 kg Press, Men	János Bagócs	HUN	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Snatch, Men	Ondrej Hekel	TCH	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL	János Bagócs	HUN
lightweight -67.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	János Bagócs	HUN	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	János Bagócs	HUN	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL
middleweight -75 kg Press, Men	Viktor Kurentsov	URS	Werner Dittrich	GDR	Albert Huser	GER
middleweight -75 kg Snatch, Men	Viktor Kurentsov	URS	Werner Dittrich	GDR	Yevgeny Smirnov	URS
middleweight -75 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Gábor Szarvas	HUN	Viktor Kurentsov	URS	Yordan Bikov	BUL
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Viktor Kurentsov	URS	Gábor Szarvas	HUN	Yevgeny Smirnov	URS
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Press, Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	Hans Bettembourg	SWE	Norbert Ozimek	POL
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Snatch, Men	Norbert Ozimek	POL	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	Stefan Sochański	POL
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	Juhani Avellan	FIN	György Horváth	HUN
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	György Horváth	HUN	Stefan Sochański	POL
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Press, Men	Karl Arnold	GDR	Bo Johansson	SWE	Kaarlo Kangasniemi	FIN
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Snatch, Men	Kaarlo Kangasniemi	FIN	Bo Johansson	SWE	Vasily Kolotov	URS
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Vasily Kolotov	URS	Pierre Gourrier	FRA	Kaarlo Kangasniemi	FIN
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Kaarlo Kangasniemi	FIN	Vasily Kolotov	URS	Bo Johansson	SWE
heavyweight -110 kg Press, Men	Jaan Talts	URS	Aleksandar Kraychev	BUL	Günter Wu	GER
heavyweight -110 kg Snatch, Men	Kauko Kangasniemi	FIN	Mauno Lindroos	FIN	Jaan Talts	URS
heavyweight -110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Jaan Talts	URS	Aleksandar Kraychev	BUL	Mauno Lindroos	FIN
heavyweight -110 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Jaan Talts	URS	Aleksandar Kraychev	BUL	János Hanzlik	HUN
super-heavyweight +110 kg Press, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Manfred Rieger	GDR	Kalevi Lahdenranta	FIN
super-heavyweight +110 kg Snatch, Men	Kalevi Lahdenranta	FIN	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Manfred Rieger	GDR
super-heavyweight +110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Kalevi Lahdenranta	FIN	Manfred Rieger	GDR
super-heavyweight +110 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Kalevi Lahdenranta	FIN	Manfred Rieger	GDR