The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Weightlifting - Lightweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

CHINA - 11 Medals

SOVIET UNION - 8 Medals

THAILAND - 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
Alfred Neuland - Estonia
Louis Williquet - Belgium
Florimond Rooms - Belgium
1924
Edmond Decottignies - France
Anton Zwerina - Austria
Bohumil Durdis - Czechoslovakia
1928
Hans Haas - Austria
Kurt Helbig - Germany
NONE
Fernand Arnout - France
1932
René Duverger - France
Hans Haas - Austria
Gastone Pierini - Italy
1936
Robert Fin - Austria
Anwar Mesbah - Egypt
NONE
Karl Jansen - Germany
1948
Ibrahim Shams - Egypt
Attia Hamouda - Egypt
James Halliday - Great Britain
1952
Tommy Kono - United States
Yevgeny Lopatin - Soviet Union
Vern Barberis - Australia
1956
Ihor Rybak - Soviet Union
Ravil Khabutdinov - Soviet Union
Kim Chang-hee - South Korea
1960
Viktor Bushuev - Soviet Union
Tan Howe Liang - Singapore
Abdul-Wahid Aziz - Iraq
1964
Waldemar Baszanowski - Poland
Vladimir Kaplunov - Soviet Union
Marian Zieliński - Poland
1968
Waldemar Baszanowski - Poland Parviz Jalayer - Iran
Marian Zieliński - Poland
1972
Mukharby Kirzhinov - Soviet Union
Mladen Kuchev - Bulgaria
Zbigniew Kaczmarek - Poland
1976
Petro Korol - Soviet Union
Daniel Senet - France
Kazimierz Czarnecki - Poalnd
1980
Yanko Rusev - Bulgaria
Joachim Kunz - East Germany
Mincho Pashov - Bulgaria
1984
Yao Jingjuan - China
Andrei Socaci - Romania
Jouni Grönman - Finland
1988
Joachim Kunz - East Germany Israel Militosyan - Soviet Union
Li Jinhe - China
1992
Israel Militosyan - Unified Team
Yoto Yotov - Bulgaria
Andreas Behm - Germany
1996
Zhan Xugang - China
Kim Myong-Nam - North Korea
Attila Feri - Hungary
2000
Galabin Boevski - Bulgaria
Georgi Markov - Bulgaria
Siarhei Laurenau - Belarus
2004
Zhang Guozheng - China
Lee Bae-young - South Korea
Nikolaj Pešalov - Croatia
2008
Liao Hui - China
Vencelas Dabaya - France
Yordanis Borrero - Cuba
2012
Lin Qingfeng - China
Triyanto - Indonesia
Kim Myong-hyok - North Korea
2016
Shi Zhiyong - China
Daniyar Ismayilov - Turkey
Luis Javier Mosquera - Colombia
2020
Shi Zhiyong - China Julio Mayora - Venezuela Rahmat Erwin Abdullah - Indonesia

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
2000
Soraya Jiménez - Mexico
Ri Song Hui - North Korea
Khassaraporn Suta - Thailand
2004
Chen Yanqing - China
Ri Song Hui - North Korea Wandee Kameaim - Thailand
2008
Chen Yanqing - China O Jong Ae - North Korea
Wandee Kameaim - Thailand
2012
Li Xueying - China
Pimsiri Sirikaew - Thailand
Rattikan Gulnoi - Thailand
2016
Sukanya Srisurat - Thailand
Pimsiri Sirikaew - Thailand Kuo Hsing-chun - Chinese Taipei
2020
Kuo Hsing-chun - Chinese Taipei Polina Guryeva - Turkmenistan Mikiko Ando - Japan

Medal Total   Men's  Women's
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
China
10
0
1
11
2
Soviet Union
4
4
0
8
3
Thailand
1
2
4
7
4
Bulgaria
2
3
1
6
5
Poland
2
0
4
6
6
France
2
2
1
5
7
North Korea 0
4
1
5
8
Austria
2
2
0
4
9
Egypt
2
1
0
3
10
Germany
1
0
2
3
11
East Germany
1
1
0
2
12
Belgium
0
1
1
2
13
South Korea
0
1
1
2
14
Indonesia 0
1
1
2
15
Chinese Taipei 1
0
1
2
16
United States
1
0
0
1
17
Estonia
1
0
0
1
18
Mexico
1
0
0
1
19
Unified Team
1
0
0
1
20
Singapore
0
1
0
1
21
Iran
0
1
0
1
22
Turkey
0
1
0
1
23
Turkmenistan
0
1
0
1
24
Venezuela
0
1
0
1
25
Romania 0
1
0
1
26
Italy
0
0
1
1
27
Great Britain
0
0
1
1
28
Australia
0
0
1
1
29
Iraq
0
0
1
1
30
Finland
0
0
1
1
31
Hungary
0
0
1
1
32
Belarus
0
0
1
1
33
Croatia
0
0
1
1
34
Cuba
0
0
1
1
35
Colombia
0
0
1
1
36
Japan
0
0
1
1
37
Czechoslovakia 0
0
1
1