The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Weightlifting - Discontinued

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

CHINA - 5 Medals

UNITED STATES - 5 Medals

SOVIET UNION - 4 Medals

Medal Table
Bantamweight
Flyweight
Featherweight
Lightweight
Middleweight
Light Heavyweight
Middle Heavyweight
Heavyweight
Super Heavyweight
Discontinued

Winners  Medal Total
One Hand Lift
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1896
Launceston Elliot - Great Britain
Viggo Jensen - Denmark
Alexandros Nikolopoulos - Greece

Two Hand Lift
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1896
Viggo Jensen - Denmark
Launceston Elliot - Great Britain Sotirios Versis - Greece
1904
Perikles Kakousis - Greece
Oscar Osthoff - United States
Frank Kugler - United States

All-Around Dumblell Contest
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1904
Oscar Osthoff - United States Frederick Winters - United States
Frank Kugler - United States

Flyweight
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1972
Zygmunt Smalcerz - Poland
Lajos Szũcs - Hungary
Sándor Holczreiter - Hungary
1976
Aleksandr Voronin - Soviet Union
György Kőszegi - Hungary
Mohammad Nassiri - Iran
1980
Kanybek Osmonaliyev - Soviet Union
Ho Bong Chol - North Korea
Han Gyong Si - North Korea
1984
Zeng Guoqiang - China
Zhou Peishun - China
Kazushito Manabe - Japan
1988
Sevdalin Marinov - Bulgaria
Chun Byung-Kwan - South Korea
He Zhouqiang - China
1992
Ivan Ivanov - Bulgaria
Lis Qissheng - China
Traian Cihărean - Romania
1996
Halil Mutlu - Turkey
Zhang Xiangsen - China
Sevdalin Minchev - Bulgaria

First Heavyweight
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1980
Ota Zaremba - Czechoslovakia
Igor Nikitin - Soviet Union
Alberto Blanco - Cuba
1984
Rolf Milser - West Germany
Vasile Groapa - Romania
Pekka Niemi - Finland
1988
Pavel Kuznetsov - Soviet Union
Nicu Vald - Romania
Peter Immesberger - West Germany
1992
Viktor Tregubov - Unified Team
Timur Taymazov - Unified Team
Waldemar Malak - Poland
1996
Akakios Kakiasvilis - Greece
Anatoly Khrapaty - Kazakhstan
Denys Gotfrid - Ukraine

Medal Total  Winners
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
China
1
3
1
5
2
United States
1
2
2
5
3
Soviet Union
3
1
0
4
4
Greece
1
0
3
4
5
Bulgaria
2
0
1
3
6
Hungary
0
2
1
3
7
Romania
0
2
1
3
8
Great Britain
1
1
0
2
9
Denmark
1
1
0
2
10
Unified Team
1
1
0
2
11
Poland
1
0
1
2
12
West Germany
1
0
1
2
13
North Korea
0
1
1
2
14
Turkey
1
0
0
1
15
Czechoslovakia 1
0
0
1
16
South Korea
0
1
0
1
17
Kazakhstan
0
1
0
1
18
Iran
0
0
1
1
19
Japan
0
0
1
1
20
Cuba
0
0
1
1
21
Finland
0
0
1
1
22
Ukraine
0
0
1
1