The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Weightlifting - Light Heavyweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 9 Medals

UNITED STATES - 8 Medals

POLAND - 7 Medals

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

Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2016 Rio Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1920
Ernest Cadine - France
Fritz Hünenberger - Switzerland
Erik Pettersson - Sweden
1924
Charles Rigoulot - France
Fritz Hünenberger - Switzerland Leopold Friedrich - Austria
1928
El Sayed Nosseir - Egypt
Louis Hostin - France
Jan Verheijen - Netherlands
1932
Louis Hostin - France Svend Olsen - Denmark
Henry Duey - United States
1936
Louis Hostin - France Eugen Deutsch - Germany
Ibrahim Wasif - Egypt
1948
Stanley Stanczyk - United States
Harold Sakata - United States
Gösta Magnusson - Sweden
1952
Trofim Lomakin - Soviet Union
Stanley Stanczyk - United States Arkady Vorobyov - Soviet Union
1956
Tommy Kono - United States
Vasilijs Stepanovs - Soviet Union
Jim George - United States
1960
Ireneusz Palinski - Poland
Jim George - United States
Jan Bochenek - Poland
1964
Rudolf Plyukfelder - Soviet Union
Géza Tóth - Hungary
Győző Veres - Hungary
1968
Boris Selitsky - Soviet Union
Vladimir Belyaev - Soviet Union
Norbert Ozimek - Poland
1972
Leif Jenssen - Norway
Norbert Ozimek - Poland György Horváth - Hungary
1976
Valery Shary - Soviet Union
Trendafil Stoychev - Bulgaria
Péter Baczakó - Hungary
1980
Yurik Vardanyan - Soviet Union
Blagoy Blagoev - Bulgaria
Dušan Poliačik - Czechoslovakia
1984
Petre Becheru - Romania
Robert Kabbas - Australia
Ryoji Isaoka - Japan
1988
Israil Arsamakov - Soviet Union
István Messzi - Hungary
Lee Hyung-kun - South Korea
1992
Pyrros Dimas - Greece
Krzysztof Siemion - Poland
NONE
1996
Pyrros Dimas - Greece Marc Huster - Germany
Andrzej Cofalik - Poland
2000
Pyrros Dimas - Greece Marc Huster - Germany Giorgi Asanidze - Georgia
2004
Giorgi Asanidze - Georgia Andrei Rybakou - Belarus
Pyrros Dimas - Greece
2008
Lu Yong - China
Tigran Martirosyan - Armenia
Jadier Valladares - Cuba
2012
Adrian Zieliński - Poland
Kianoush Rostami - Iran
Tarek Yehia - Egypt
2016
Kianoush Rostami - Iran Tian Tao - China
Denis Ulanov - Kazakhstan

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
2000
Lin Weining - China
Erzsébet Márkus - Hungary
Karnam Malleswari - India
2004
Liu Chunhong - China
Eszter Krutzler - Hungary
Zarema Kasaeva - Russia
2008
Oksana Slivenko - Russia Leydi Solís - Colombia Abeer Abdelrahman - Egypt
2012
Rim Jong-sim - North Korea
Vacant
Anna Nurmukhambetova - Kazakhstan
Ubaldina Valoyes - Colombia
2016
Xiang Yanmei - China
Zhazira Zhapparkul - Kazakhstan
Sara Ahmed - Egypt
2020
Neisi Dajomes - Ecuador Katherine Nye - United States Aremi Fuentes - Mexico

Medal Total   Men's  Women's
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Soviet Union
6
2
1
9
2
United States
2
4
2
8
3
Poland
2
2
3
7
4
Hungary
0
4
3
7
5
France
4
1
0
5
6
China
4
1
0
5
7
Egypt 1
0
4
5
8
Greece
3
0
1
4
9
Germany
0
3
0
3
10
Kazakhstan
0
1
2
3
11
Iran
1
1
0
2
12
Georgia
1
0
1
2
13
Russia 1
0
1
2
14
Switzerland
0
2
0
2
15
Bulgaria
0
2
0
2
16
Colombia 0
1
1
2
17
Sweden
0
0
2
2
18
Norway
1
0
0
1
19
North Korea
1
0
0
1
20
Ecuador
1
0
0
1
21
Romania 1
0
0
1
22
Denmark
0
1
0
1
23
Australia
0
1
0
1
24
Belarus
0
1
0
1
25
Armenia
0
1
0
1
26
Austria
0
0
1
1
27
Netherlands
0
0
1
1
28
Japan
0
0
1
1
29
South Korea
0
0
1
1
30
Cuba
0
0
1
1
31
India
0
0
1
1
32
Mexico
0
0
1
1
33
Czechoslovakia
0
0
1
1