1971 European Weightlifting Championships

Host City	Sofia
Country	BUL
Held	19 – 27 June 1971
Competitors	40
Countries	12

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	16	11	6	33
2	Poland	POL	10	6	4	20
3	Hungary	HUN	5	10	7	22
4	Bulgaria	BUL	2	4	8	14
5	Sweden	SWE	1	4	0	5
6	Germany	GER	1	0	3	4
7	Czechoslovakia	TCH	1	0	2	3
8	Finland	FIN	0	1	1	2
9	Italy	ITA	0	0	2	2
10	East Germany	GDR	0	0	1	1
=	France	FRA	0	0	1	1
=	Romania	ROU	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
flyweight -52 kg Press, Men	Sándor Holczreiter	HUN	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL	Zoltan Fiat	ROU
flyweight -52 kg Snatch, Men	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL	Sándor Holczreiter	HUN	Mustar Mustafov	BUL
flyweight -52 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL	Mustar Mustafov	BUL	Sándor Holczreiter	HUN
flyweight -52 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL	Sándor Holczreiter	HUN	Mustar Mustafov	BUL
bantamweight -56 kg Press, Men	Imre Földi	HUN	Gennady Chetin	URS	Atanas Kirov	BUL
bantamweight -56 kg Snatch, Men	Gennady Chetin	URS	Imre Földi	HUN	Walter Szołtysek	POL
bantamweight -56 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Imre Földi	HUN	Walter Szołtysek	POL	Gennady Chetin	URS
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Imre Földi	HUN	Gennady Chetin	URS	Walter Szołtysek	POL
featherweight -60 kg Press, Men	Mladen Kuchev	BUL	Kazimierz Czarnecki	POL	Dito Shanidze	URS
featherweight -60 kg Snatch, Men	Jan Wojnowski	POL	Dito Shanidze	URS	János Benedek	HUN
featherweight -60 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Jan Wojnowski	POL	Dito Shanidze	URS	Mladen Kuchev	BUL
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Jan Wojnowski	POL	Dito Shanidze	URS	János Benedek	HUN
lightweight -67.5 kg Press, Men	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL	Joseph Mathe	HUN	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL
lightweight -67.5 kg Snatch, Men	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Stefan Tsonchev	BUL
lightweight -67.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL	Joseph Mathe	HUN
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Waldemar Baszanowski	POL	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL	Joseph Mathe	HUN
middleweight -75 kg Press, Men	János Bagócs	HUN	Viktor Kurentsov	URS	Ondrej Hekel	TCH
middleweight -75 kg Snatch, Men	Ondrej Hekel	TCH	Gábor Szarvas	HUN	Aimé Terme	FRA
middleweight -75 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Viktor Kurentsov	URS	Gábor Szarvas	HUN	János Bagócs	HUN
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Viktor Kurentsov	URS	Gábor Szarvas	HUN	Ondrej Hekel	TCH
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Press, Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	György Horváth	HUN	Dino Turcato	ITA
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Snatch, Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	Dimitar Slavov	BUL	György Horváth	HUN
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	György Horváth	HUN	Juhani Avellan	FIN
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Gennady Ivanchenko	URS	György Horváth	HUN	Dino Turcato	ITA
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Press, Men	Hans Bettembourg	SWE	Bo Johansson	SWE	David Rigert	URS
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Snatch, Men	David Rigert	URS	Bo Johansson	SWE	Stanisław Kordyka	POL
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	David Rigert	URS	Bo Johansson	SWE	Atanas Shopov	BUL
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	David Rigert	URS	Bo Johansson	SWE	Atanas Shopov	BUL
heavyweight -110 kg Press, Men	Aleksandar Kraychev	BUL	Valery Yakubovsky	URS	Karl Utsar	URS
heavyweight -110 kg Snatch, Men	Karl Utsar	URS	Kauko Kangasniemi	FIN	Aleksandar Kraychev	BUL
heavyweight -110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Valery Yakubovsky	URS	Aleksandar Kraychev	BUL	Helmut Losch	GDR
heavyweight -110 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Valery Yakubovsky	URS	Aleksandar Kraychev	BUL	Karl Utsar	URS
super-heavyweight +110 kg Press, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Stanislav Batishchev	URS	Rudolf Mang	GER
super-heavyweight +110 kg Snatch, Men	Rudolf Mang	GER	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Stanislav Batishchev	URS
super-heavyweight +110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Stanislav Batishchev	URS	Rudolf Mang	GER
super-heavyweight +110 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Stanislav Batishchev	URS	Rudolf Mang	GER