1957 Asian Weightlifting Championships

Host City	Tehran
Country	IRI
Held	8 – 12 November 1957
Competitors	22
Countries	7

World Championships

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Iran	IRI	4	4	0	8
2	Japan	JPN	1	1	4	6
3	Iraq	IRQ	1	0	1	2
4	China	CHN	1	0	0	1
5	Pakistan	PAK	0	1	1	2
6	Lebanon	LBN	0	1	0	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
bantamweight -56 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Ali Safa Sonboli bodyweight: 56.0 kg	IRI	Mahmoud Namdjou bodyweight: 56.0 kg	IRI	Shigeo Kogure bodyweight: 55.7 kg	JPN
featherweight -60 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Yukio Furuyama bodyweight: 60.0 kg	JPN	Fumio Takeda bodyweight: 60.0 kg	JPN	K. Abdeka bodyweight: 60.0 kg	IRQ
lightweight -67.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Abdul Wahid Aziz bodyweight: 67.3 kg	IRQ	Henrik Tamraz bodyweight: 65.9 kg	IRI	Hiroshi Yamazaki bodyweight: 65.6 kg	JPN
middleweight -75 kg Total (three lifts), Men	R. Sy bodyweight: 72.5 kg	CHN	Mohamed Tehraniami bodyweight: 75.0 kg	IRI	Yoshio Hara bodyweight: 72.1 kg	JPN
light-heavyweight -82.5 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Jalal Mansouri bodyweight: 81.8 kg	IRI	N. Raay bodyweight: 81.1 kg	LBN	Muhammad Iqbal Butt bodyweight: 81.5 kg	PAK
middle-heavyweight -90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Hassan Rahnavardi bodyweight: 89.1 kg	IRI	Firouz Pojhan bodyweight: 89.9 kg	IRI	M. Watanabe bodyweight: 87.2 kg	JPN
heavyweight +90 kg Total (three lifts), Men	Masoud K. bodyweight: 92.6 kg	IRI	Ali F. bodyweight: 92.0 kg	PAK