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
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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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