Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Palazzetto dello Sport
Dates	7–10 September 1960
Competitors	172 from 53 nations

The weightlifting competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg	Charles Vinci  United States	Yoshinobu Miyake  Japan	Esmaeil Elmkhah  Iran
60 kg	Yevgeny Minayev  Soviet Union	Isaac Berger  United States	Sebastiano Mannironi  Italy
67.5 kg	Viktor Bushuev  Soviet Union	Tan Howe Liang  Singapore	Abdul-Wahid Aziz  Iraq
75 kg	Aleksandr Kurynov  Soviet Union	Tommy Kono  United States	Győző Veres  Hungary
82.5 kg	Ireneusz Paliński  Poland	Jim George  United States	Jan Bochenek  Poland
90 kg	Arkadi Vorobyev  Soviet Union	Trofim Lomakin  Soviet Union	Louis Martin  Great Britain
+90 kg	Yury Vlasov  Soviet Union	James Bradford  United States	Norbert Schemansky  United States

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	1	0	6
2	United States (USA)	1	4	1	6
3	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
4	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	0	1
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		7	7	7	21

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-21.