1959 World Weightlifting Championships

The 1959 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Warsaw, Poland from September 29 to October 4, 1959. There were 85 men in action from 19 nations. Weightlifters from Soviet Union earned the highest number of gold medals (4) and the most overall medals (7). Host nation Poland finished second with 1 gold and 5 overall medals.

Four World Records broke in this tournament. in 82.5 kg category Rudolf Plyukfelder from USSR set two new World Record in Snatch (141 kg) and Total (457.5 kg) while Ireneusz Paliński from set a new World Record in Clean & Jerk (178.5 kg). in 90 kg, Yury Vlasov broke the Snatch World Record (153 kg).^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight 56 kg	Vladimir Stogov  Soviet Union	332.5 kg	Marian Jankowski  Poland	320.0 kg	Imre Földi  Hungary	295.0 kg
Featherweight 60 kg	Marian Zieliński  Poland	365.0 kg	Isaac Berger  United States	362.5 kg	Sebastiano Mannironi  Italy	350.0 kg
Lightweight 67.5 kg	Viktor Bushuev  Soviet Union	385.0 kg	Akop Faradzhyan  Soviet Union	370.0 kg	Abdul-Wahid Aziz  Iraq	362.5 kg
Middleweight 75 kg	Tommy Kono  United States	425.0 kg	Fyodor Bogdanovsky  Soviet Union	417.5 kg	Jan Bochenek  Poland	392.5 kg
Light heavyweight 82.5 kg	Rudolf Plyukfelder  Soviet Union	457.5 kg	Ireneusz Paliński  Poland	432.5 kg	Jim George  United States	417.5 kg
Middle heavyweight 90 kg	Louis Martin  Great Britain	445.0 kg	Arkady Vorobyov  Soviet Union	445.0 kg	Czesław Białas  Poland	422.5 kg
Heavyweight +90 kg	Yury Vlasov  Soviet Union	500.0 kg	James Bradford  United States	492.5 kg	Ivan Veselinov  Bulgaria	455.0 kg

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	4	3	0	7
2	Poland	1	2	2	5
3	United States	1	2	1	4
4	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
5	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Iraq	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 nations)		7	7	7	21

References

• Results (Sport 123)
• Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics

External links

• International Weightlifting Federation