The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Weightlifting - Middle Heavyweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 9 Medals

POLAND - 7 Medals

BULGARIA - 5 Medals

Medal Table
Bantamweight
Flyweight
Featherweight
Lightweight
Middleweight
Light Heavyweight
Middle Heavyweight
Heavyweight
Super Heavyweight
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Winners  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1952
Norbert Schemansky - United States
Grigory Novak - Soviet Union
Lennox Kilgour - Trinidad & Tobago
1956
Arkady Vorobyov - Soviet Union
David Sheppard - United States
Jean Debuf - France
1960
Arkady Vorobyov - Soviet Union Trofim Lomakin - Soviet Union
Louis Martin - Great Britain
1964
Vladimir Golovanov - Soviet Union
Louis Martins - Great Britain
Ireneusz Paliński - Poland
1968
Kaarlo Kangasniemi - Finland
Jaan Talts - Soviet Union
Marek Gołąb - Poland
1972
Andon Nikolov - Bulgaria
Atanas Shopov - Bulgaria
Hans Bettembourg - Sweden
1976
David Rigert - Soviet Union
Lee James - United States
Atanas Shopov - Bulgaria
1980
Péter Baczakó - Hungary
Rumen Aleksandrov - Bulgaria
Frank Mantek - East Germany
1984
Nicu Vlad - Romania
Dumitru Petre - Romania
David Mercer - Great Britain
1988
Anatoly Khrapaty - Soviet Union
Nail Mukhamedyarov - Soviet Union
Slawomir Zawada - Poland
1992
Kakhi Kakhiashvili - Unified Team
Sergey Syrtsov - Unified Team
Sergiusz Wolczaniecki - Poland
1996
Akakios Kakiasvilis - Greece
Leonidas Kokas - Greece
Oliver Caruso - Germany
2000
Akakios Kakiasvilis - Greece Szymon Kołecki - Poland
Aleksey Petrov - Russia
2004
Milen Dobrev - Bulgaria
Khadzhimurat Akkayev - Russia
Eduard Tyukin - Russia
2008
Szymon Kołecki - Poland Arsen Kasabiev - Georgia
Yoaandry Hernández - Cuba
2012
Saeid Mohammadpour - Iran
Kim Min-jae - South Korea
Tomasz Zieliński - Poland
2016
Sohrab Moradi - Iran
Vadzim Straltsou - Belarus
Aurimas Didžbalis - Lithuania
2020
Fares Ibrahim - Qatar Keydomar Vallenilla - Venezuela Anton Pliesnoi - Georgia



Medal Total  Winners
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Soviet Union
5
4
0
9
2
Poland
1
1
5
7
3
Bulgaria
2
2
1
5
4
Greece
2
1
0
3
5
United States
1
2
0
3
6
Great Britain
0
1
2
3
7
Russia
0
1
2
3
8
Iran
2
0
0
2
9
Romania
1
1
0
2
10
Unified Team
1
1
0
2
11
Georgia 0
1
1
2
12
Finland
1
0
0
1
13
Hungary
1
0
0
1
14
Qatar
1
0
0
1
15
South Korea
0
1
0
1
16
Belarus
0
1
0
1
17
Venezuela
0
1
0
1
18
Trinidad & Tobago
0
0
1
1
19
France
0
0
1
1
20
Sweden
0
0
1
1
21
Germany
0
0
1
1
22
Cuba
0
0
1
1
23
Lithuania
0
0
1
1
24
East Germany
0
0
1
1