The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Weightlifting - Featherweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

CHINA - 9 Medals

SOVIET UNION - 8 Medals

INDONESIA - 7 Medals

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

Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1920
Frans de Haes - Belgium
Alfred Schmidt - Estonia
Eugčne Ryter - Switzerland
1924
Pierino Gabetti - Italy
Andreas Stadler - Austria
Arthur Reinmann - Switzerland
1928
Franz Andrysek - Austria
Pierino Gabetti - Italy Hans Wölpert - Germany
1932
Raymond Suvigny - France
Hans Wölpert - Germany Anthony Terlazzo - United States
1936
Anthony Terlazzo - United States Saleh Soliman - Egypt
Ibrahim Shams - Egypt
1948
Mahmoud Fayad - Egypt
Rodney Wilkes - Trinidad & Tobago
Jafar Salmasi - Iran
1952
Rafael Chimishkyan - Soviet Union
Nikolay Saksonov - Soviet Union
Rodney Wilkes - Trinidad & Tobago
1956
Isaac Berger - United States
Yevgeni Minaev - Soviet Union
Marian Zieliński - Poland
1960
Yevgeni Minaev - Soviet Union Isaac Berger - United States Sebastiano Mannironi - Italy
1964
Yoshinobu Miyake - Japan
Isaac Berger - United States Mieczysław Nowak - Poland
1968
Yoshinobu Miyake - Japan Dito Shanidze - Soviet Union
Yoshiyuki Miyake - Japan
1972
Norair Nurikyan - Bulgaria
Dito Shanidze - Soviet Union János Benedek - Hungary
1976
Nikolay Kolesnikov - Soviet Union
Georgi Todorov - Bulgaria
Kazumasa Hirai - Japan
1980
Viktor Mazin - Soviet Union
Stefan Dimitrov - Bulgaria
Marek Seweryn - Poland
1984
Chen Weiqiang - China
Gelu Radu - Romania
Tsai Wen-Yee - Chinese Taipei
1988
Naim Süleymanoğlu - Turkey
Stefan Topurov - Bulgaria
Ye Huanming - China
1992
Naim Süleymanoğlu - Turkey Nikolay Peshalov - Bulgaria
He Yingqiang - China
1996
Naim Süleymanoğlu - Turkey Valerios Leonidis - Greece
Xiao Jiangang - China
2000
Nikolaj Pešalov - Croatia
Leonidas Sabanis - Greece
Gennady Oleshchuk - Belarus
2004
Shi Zhiyong - China
Le Maosheng - China
Israel José Rubio - Venezuela
2008
Zhang Xiangxiang - China
Diego Salazar - Colombia
Triyatno - Indonesia
2012
Kim Un-guk - North Korea
Óscar Figueroa - Colombia
Eko Yuli Irawan - Indonesia
2016
Óscar Figueroa - Colombia Eko Yuli Irawan - Indonesia Farkhad Kharki - Kazakhstan
2020
Chen Lijun - China Luis Javier Mosquera - Colombia Mirko Zanni - Italy

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2016 Rio Games
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
2000
Yang Xia - China
Li Fengying - Chinese Taipei
Winami Binti Slamet - Indonesia
2004
Udomporn Polsak - Thailand
Raema Lisa Rumbewas - Indonesia
Mabel Mosquera - Colombia
2008
Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon - Thailand
Yoon Jin-Hee - South Korea
Raema Lisa Rumbewas - Indonesia
2012
Hsu Shu-ching - Chinese Taipei
Citra Febrianti - Indonesia
Iulia Paratova - Ukraine
2016
Hsu Shu-ching - Chinese Taipei Hidilyn Diaz - Philippines
Yoon Jin-Hee - South Korea

Medal Total   Men's  Women's
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
China 5
1
3
9
2
Soviet Union
4
4
0
8
3
Indonesia
0
3
4
7
4
United States
2
2
1
5
5
Bulgaria
1
4
0
5
6
Colombia 1
3
1
5
7
Chinese Taipei 2
1
1
4
8
Japan
2
0
2
4
9
Italy 1
1
2
4
10
Turkey
3
0
0
3
11
Egypt
1
1
1
3
12
Poland
0
0
3
3
13
Thailand
2
0
0
2
14
Austria
1
1
0
2
15
Greece
0
2
0
2
16
Germany
0
1
1
2
17
Trinidad & Tobago 0
1
1
2
18
South Korea
0
1
1
2
19
Switzerland
0
0
2
2
20
Belgium
1
0
0
1
21
France
1
0
0
1
22
Croatia
1
0
0
1
23
North Korea
1
0
0
1
24
Estonia
0
1
0
1
25
Romania
0
1
0
1
26
Philippines
0
1
0
1
27
Iran
0
0
1
1
28
Hungary
0
0
1
1
29
Belarus
0
0
1
1
30
Venezuela
0
0
1
1
31
Kazakhstan
0
0
1
1
32
Ukraine
0
0
1
1