The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Weightlifting - Super Heavyweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

CHINA - 5 Medals

RUSSIA - 5 Medals

SOVIET UNION - 4 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
1972
Vasily Alekseyev - Soviet Union
Rudolf Mang - West Germany
Gerd Bonk - East Germany
1976
Vasily Alekseyev - Soviet Union Gerd Bonk - East Germany Helmut Losch - East Germany
1980
Sultan Rakhmanov - Soviet Union
Jürgen Heuser - East Germany
Tadeusz Rutkowski - Poland
1984
Dean Lukin - Australia
Mario Martinez - United States
Manfred Nerlinger - West Germany
1988
Aleksandr Kurlovich - Soviet Union
Manfred Nerlinger - West Germany Martin Zawieja - West Germany
1992
Aleksandr Kurlovich - Unified Team
Leonid Taranenko - Unified Team
Manfred Nerlinger - Germany
1996
Andrei Chemerkin - Russia
Ronny Weller - Germany
Stefan Botev - Australia
2000
Hossein Rezazadeh - Iran
Ronny Weller - Germany
Andrei Chemerkin - Russia
2004
Hossein Rezazadeh - Iran Viktors Ščerbatihs - Latvia
Velichko Cholakov - Bulgaria
2008
Matthias Steiner - Germany
Evgeny Chigishev - Russia
Viktors Ščerbatihs - Latvia
2012
Behdad Salimi - Iran
Sajjad Anoushiravani - Iran
Ruslan Albegov - Russia
2016
Lasha Talakhadze - Georgia
Gor Minasyan - Armenia
Irakli Turmanidze - Gerogia

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
2000
Ding Meiyuan - China
Agata Wróbel - Poland
Cheryl Haworth - United States
2004
Tang Gonghong - China
Jang Mi-ran - South Korea
Agata Wróbel - Poland
2008
Jang Mi-ran - South Korea Ele Opeloge - Samoa
Mariam Usman - Nigeria
2012
Zhou Lulu - China
Tatiana Kashirina - Russia
Jang Mi-ran - South Korea
2016
Meng Suping - China
Kim Kuk-hyang - North Korea
Sarah Robles - United States
2020
Li Wenwen - China Emily Campbell - Great Britain Sarah Robles - United States

Medal Total   Men's  Women's
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
China 5
0
0
5
2
Russia
1
2
2
5
3
Soviet Union
4
0
0
4
4
Iran
3
1
0
4
5
Germany
1
2
1
4
6
West Germany
0
2
2
4
7
East Germany
0
2
2
4
8
United States 0
1
3
4
9
South Korea
1
1
1
3
10
Poland
0
1
2
3
11
Unified Team
1
1
0
2
12
Australia
1
0
1
2
13
Georgia
1
0
1
2
14
Latvia
0
1
1
2
15
Armenia
0
1
0
1
16
Samoa
0
1
0
1
17
North Korea
0
1
0
1
18
Great Britain
0
1
0
1
19
Bulgaria
0
0
1
1
20
Nigeria
0
0
1
1