Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London consisted of six weight classes, all for men only. The bantamweight division was a newly created weight class, marking the first change to the Olympic program since 1920.[1]

Weightlifting
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
VenueEmpress Hall, Earl's Court
Dates9–11 August 1948
Competitors120 from 30 nations

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Bantamweight
Joseph De Pietro
 United States
Julian Creus
 Great Britain
Richard Tom
 United States
Featherweight
Mahmoud Fayad
 Egypt
Rodney Wilkes
 Trinidad and Tobago
Jafar Salmasi
 Iran
Lightweight
Ibrahim Shams
 Egypt
Attia Hamouda
 Egypt
James Halliday
 Great Britain
Middleweight
Frank Spellman
 United States
Pete George
 United States
Kim Sung-Jip
 South Korea
Light-heavyweight
Stanley Stanczyk
 United States
Harold Sakata
 United States
Gösta Magnusson
 Sweden
Heavyweight
John Davis
 United States
Norbert Schemansky
 United States
Abraham Charite
 Netherlands

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)4318
2 Egypt (EGY)2103
3 Great Britain (GBR)0112
4 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)0101
5 Iran (IRI)0011
 Netherlands (NED)0011
 South Korea (KOR)0011
 Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (8 nations)66618

References

  1. "Weightlifting at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2019.

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