Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting; at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Messuhalli
Dates	25–27 July 1952
Competitors	142 from 41 nations

The weightlifting competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. The middle-heavyweight division was a newly created weight class, moving the heavyweight class up from 82.5 kg to 90 kg. The events were held at Messuhalli.[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Ivan Udodov Soviet Union	Mahmoud Namjoo Iran	Ali Mirzaei Iran
Featherweight	Rafael Chimishkyan Soviet Union	Nikolai Saksonov Soviet Union	Rodney Wilkes Trinidad and Tobago
Lightweight	Tommy Kono United States	Yevgeni Lopatin Soviet Union	Vern Barberis Australia
Middleweight	Pete George United States	Gérald Gratton Canada	Kim Sung-Jip South Korea
Light-heavyweight	Trofim Lomakin Soviet Union	Stanley Stanczyk United States	Arkady Vorobyev Soviet Union
Middle-heavyweight	Norbert Schemansky United States	Grigory Novak Soviet Union	Lennox Kilgour Trinidad and Tobago
Heavyweight	John Davis United States	James Bradford United States	Humberto Selvetti Argentina

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	2	0	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	3	1	7
3	Iran (IRI)	0	1	1	2
4	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
5	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	0	2	2
6	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 nations)		7	7	7	21

References

"Weightlifting at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2019.

Sources

"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-20.

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[SR-1] "Weightlifting at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2019.