1978 World Junior Weightlifting Championships

Host City	Athina
Country	GRE
Held	15 – 22 July 1978
Competitors	44
Countries	10

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	13	9	5	27
2	Bulgaria	BUL	12	3	7	22
3	East Germany	GDR	2	3	6	11
4	Hungary	HUN	2	3	3	8
5	China	CHN	1	6	2	9
6	Cuba	CUB	0	6	2	8
7	Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	1	0	1
=	Poland	POL	0	1	0	1
9	Romania	ROU	0	0	3	3
10	Sweden	SWE	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-52 kg Snatch, Men	Wu Shude bodyweight: 51.40 kg	CHN	Yurik Sarkisyan bodyweight: 51.60 kg Su Chingyang bodyweight: 51.60 kg Jan Matura bodyweight: 51.60 kg	URS CHN POL
-52 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Zhenya Sarandaliev bodyweight: 51.20 kg	BUL	Yurik Sarkisyan bodyweight: 51.60 kg	URS	Ion Bălaș bodyweight: 51.70 kg	ROU
-52 kg Total, Men	Zhenya Sarandaliev bodyweight: 51.20 kg	BUL	Yurik Sarkisyan bodyweight: 51.60 kg	URS	Su Chingyang bodyweight: 51.60 kg	CHN
-56 kg Snatch, Men	Dmitry Pospelov bodyweight: 55.30 kg	URS	Chen Weiqiang bodyweight: 55.10 kg	CHN	Victor Rusu bodyweight: 55.70 kg	ROU
-56 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Dmitry Pospelov bodyweight: 55.30 kg	URS	Chen Weiqiang bodyweight: 55.10 kg	CHN	Anton Kodzhabashev bodyweight: 55.50 kg	BUL
-56 kg Total, Men	Dmitry Pospelov bodyweight: 55.30 kg	URS	Chen Weiqiang bodyweight: 55.10 kg	CHN	Cristian Matees bodyweight: 55.30 kg	ROU
-60 kg Snatch, Men	Beloslav Manolov bodyweight: 59.00 kg	BUL	István Lénárt bodyweight: 59.70 kg	HUN	Rolando Rodríguez bodyweight: 59.50 kg	CUB
-60 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	István Lénárt bodyweight: 59.70 kg	HUN	Redzheb Redzhebov bodyweight: 59.00 kg	BUL	Tan Hanyong bodyweight: 59.70 kg	CHN
-60 kg Total, Men	István Lénárt bodyweight: 59.70 kg	HUN	Beloslav Manolov bodyweight: 59.00 kg	BUL	Redzheb Redzhebov bodyweight: 59.00 kg	BUL
-67.5 kg Snatch, Men	Yanko Rusev bodyweight: 67.00 kg	BUL	Joachim Kunz bodyweight: 66.20 kg	GDR	Georgi Petrikov bodyweight: 66.90 kg	BUL
-67.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Yanko Rusev bodyweight: 67.00 kg	BUL	Zhao Xinmin bodyweight: 66.80 kg	CHN	Lajos Dobó bodyweight: 67.00 kg	HUN
-67.5 kg Total, Men	Yanko Rusev bodyweight: 67.00 kg	BUL	Zhao Xinmin bodyweight: 66.80 kg	CHN	Georgi Petrikov bodyweight: 66.90 kg	BUL
-75 kg Snatch, Men	Valery Talayev bodyweight: 74.60 kg	URS	Julio Echenique bodyweight: 74.20 kg	CUB	Peter Körner bodyweight: 73.90 kg	GDR
-75 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Stanimir Bayraktarov bodyweight: 74.40 kg	BUL	Julio Echenique bodyweight: 74.20 kg	CUB	Valery Talayev bodyweight: 74.60 kg	URS
-75 kg Total, Men	Valery Talayev bodyweight: 74.60 kg	URS	Julio Echenique bodyweight: 74.20 kg	CUB	Stanimir Bayraktarov bodyweight: 74.40 kg	BUL
-82.5 kg Snatch, Men	Nikolay Gruzdiev bodyweight: 80.20 kg	URS	Rumen Aleksandrov bodyweight: 82.00 kg	BUL	Frank Hinkler bodyweight: 81.30 kg	GDR
-82.5 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Rumen Aleksandrov bodyweight: 82.00 kg	BUL	Nikolay Gruzdiev bodyweight: 80.20 kg	URS	Lubomir Usherov bodyweight: 81.30 kg	BUL
-82.5 kg Total, Men	Rumen Aleksandrov bodyweight: 82.00 kg	BUL	Nikolay Gruzdiev bodyweight: 80.20 kg	URS	Lubomir Usherov bodyweight: 81.30 kg	BUL
-90 kg Snatch, Men	Viktor Sots bodyweight: 88.40 kg	URS	Yevgeny Veremienko bodyweight: 88.90 kg	URS	Michael Persson bodyweight: 88.80 kg	SWE
-90 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Yevgeny Veremienko bodyweight: 88.90 kg	URS	Viktor Sots bodyweight: 88.40 kg	URS	Detlef Jahnel bodyweight: 88.30 kg	GDR
-90 kg Total, Men	Yevgeny Veremienko bodyweight: 88.90 kg	URS	Viktor Sots bodyweight: 88.40 kg	URS	Detlef Jahnel bodyweight: 88.30 kg	GDR
-100 kg Snatch, Men	Gennady Klimenchukov bodyweight: 92.00 kg	URS	Ferenc Sinkovics bodyweight: 99.50 kg	HUN	Werner Trützschler bodyweight: 96.60 kg	GDR
-100 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Gennady Klimenchukov bodyweight: 92.00 kg	URS	Werner Trützschler bodyweight: 96.60 kg	GDR	Jorge Duany bodyweight: 97.20 kg	CUB
-100 kg Total, Men	Gennady Klimenchukov bodyweight: 92.00 kg	URS	Werner Trützschler bodyweight: 96.60 kg	GDR	Ferenc Sinkovics bodyweight: 99.50 kg	HUN
-110 kg Snatch, Men	Sergey Gnezdilov bodyweight: 100.20 kg	URS	Pavel Khek bodyweight: 109.00 kg	TCH	René Wyßuwa bodyweight: 100.60 kg	GDR
-110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	René Wyßuwa bodyweight: 100.60 kg	GDR	Mihály Balázs bodyweight: 109.60 kg	HUN	Sergey Gnezdilov bodyweight: 100.20 kg	URS
-110 kg Total, Men	René Wyßuwa bodyweight: 100.60 kg	GDR	Sergey Gnezdilov bodyweight: 100.20 kg	URS	Mihály Balázs bodyweight: 109.60 kg	HUN
+110 kg Snatch, Men	Rumen Milchev bodyweight: 115.60 kg	BUL	Francisco Méndez bodyweight: 117.50 kg	CUB	Anatoly Pisarenko bodyweight: 110.50 kg	URS
+110 kg Clean & Jerk, Men	Rumen Milchev bodyweight: 115.60 kg	BUL	Francisco Méndez bodyweight: 117.50 kg	CUB	Anatoly Pisarenko bodyweight: 110.50 kg	URS
+110 kg Total, Men	Rumen Milchev bodyweight: 115.60 kg	BUL	Francisco Méndez bodyweight: 117.50 kg	CUB	Anatoly Pisarenko bodyweight: 110.50 kg	URS