1963 World Weightlifting Championships

The 1963 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Stockholm, Sweden from September 7 to September 13, 1963. There were 134 men in action from 32 nations.

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight 56 kg	Aleksey Vakhonin Soviet Union	345.0 kg	Hiroshi Fukuda Japan	340.0 kg	Shiro Ichinoseki Japan	330.0 kg
Featherweight 60 kg	Yoshinobu Miyake Japan	375.0 kg	Isaac Berger United States	367.5 kg	Imre Földi Hungary	365.0 kg
Lightweight 67.5 kg	Marian Zieliński Poland	417.5 kg	Waldemar Baszanowski Poland	410.0 kg	Vladimir Kaplunov Soviet Union	410.0 kg
Middleweight 75 kg	Aleksandr Kurynov Soviet Union	437.5 kg	Mihály Huszka Hungary	437.5 kg	Hans Zdražila Czechoslovakia	422.5 kg
Light heavyweight 82.5 kg	Győző Veres Hungary	477.5 kg	Rudolf Plyukfelder Soviet Union	467.5 kg	Géza Tóth Hungary	450.0 kg
Middle heavyweight 90 kg	Louis Martin Great Britain	480.0 kg	Ireneusz Paliński Poland	475.0 kg	Eduard Brovko Soviet Union	470.0 kg
Heavyweight +90 kg	Yury Vlasov Soviet Union	557.5 kg	Norbert Schemansky United States	537.5 kg	Leonid Zhabotinsky Soviet Union	527.5 kg

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	1	3	7
2	Poland	1	2	0	3
3	Hungary	1	1	2	4
4	Japan	1	1	1	3
5	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
6	United States	0	2	0	2
7	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		7	7	7	21

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References

Results (Sport 123)
Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics

External links

International Weightlifting Federation

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