Weightlifting — Featherweight, Men

Times held 25
Total participants 403
Total countries 101

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1920 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 14 11
1924 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 21 11
1928 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 21 13
1932 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 6 4
1936 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 21 13
1948 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 23 18
1952 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 22 21
1956 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 21 19
1960 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 28 25
1964 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 22 20
1968 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 28 22
1972 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 13 11
1976 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 17 14
1980 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 18 14
1984 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 21 17
1988 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 17 14
1992 Featherweight (≤60 kg), Men Olympic 31 26
1996 Featherweight (≤64 kg), Men Olympic 36 26
2000 Featherweight (≤62 kg), Men Olympic 21 21
2004 Featherweight (≤62 kg), Men Olympic 20 18
2008 Featherweight (≤62 kg), Men Olympic 17 15
2012 Featherweight (≤62 kg), Men Olympic 15 13
2016 Featherweight (≤62 kg), Men Olympic 17 15
2020 Featherweight (≤61 kg), Men Olympic 14 14
2024 Featherweight (≤61 kg), Men Olympic 12 12

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1920 Frans De HaesBEL Alfred SchmidtEST Eugène RyterSUI
1924 Pierino GabettiITA Andreas StadlerAUT Arthur ReinmannSUI
1928 Franz AndrysekAUT Pierino GabettiITA Hans WölpertGER
1932 Raymond SuvignyFRA Hans WölpertGER Tony TerlazzoUSA
1936 Tony TerlazzoUSA Saleh MohamedEGY Ibrahim ShamsEGY
1948 Mahmoud FayadEGY Rodney WilkesTTO Jafar SalmasiIRI
1952 Rapael Chimishk'ianiURS Nikolay SaksonovURS Rodney WilkesTTO
1956 Ike BergerUSA Yevgeny MinayevURS Marian ZielińskiPOL
1960 Yevgeny MinayevURS Ike BergerUSA Sebastiano MannironiITA
1964 Yoshinobu MiyakeJPN Ike BergerUSA Mieczysław NowakPOL
1968 Yoshinobu MiyakeJPN Dito ShanidzeURS Yoshiyuki MiyakeJPN
1972 Norayr NurikyanBUL Dito ShanidzeURS János BenedekHUN
1976 Nikolay KolesnikovURS Georgi TodorovBUL Kazumasa HiraiJPN
1980 Viktor MazinURS Stefan DimitrovBUL Marek SewerynPOL
1984 Chen WeiqiangCHN Gelu RaduROU Tsai Wen-YeeTPE
1988 Naim SüleymanoğluTUR Stefan TopurovBUL Ye HuanmingCHN
1992 Naim SüleymanoğluTUR Nikolay PeshalovBUL He YingqiangCHN
1996 Naim SüleymanoğluTUR Valerios LeonidisGRE Xiao JiangangCHN
2000 Nikolaj PešalovCRO Leonidas SampanisGRE Henadzi AliashchukBLR
2004 Shi ZhiyongCHN Le MaoshengCHN Israel José RubioVEN
2008 Zhang XiangxiangCHN Diego Fernando SalazarCOL TriyatnoINA
2012 Kim Un-GukPRK Óscar FigueroaCOL Eko Yuli IrawanINA
2016 Óscar FigueroaCOL Eko Yuli IrawanINA Farkhad KharkiKAZ
2020 Li FabinCHN Eko Yuli IrawanINA Igor SonKAZ
2024 Li FabinCHN Theerapong SilachaiTHA Hampton MorrisUSA

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
People's Republic of China CHN 5 1 3 9
Soviet Union URS 4 4 0 8
Türkiye TUR 3 0 0 3
United States USA 2 2 2 6
Japan JPN 2 0 2 4
Bulgaria BUL 1 4 0 5
Colombia COL 1 2 0 3
Egypt EGY 1 1 1 3
Italy ITA 1 1 1 3
Austria AUT 1 1 0 2
Belgium BEL 1 0 0 1
Croatia CRO 1 0 0 1
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 1 0 0 1
France FRA 1 0 0 1
Indonesia INA 0 2 2 4
Greece GRE 0 2 0 2
Germany GER 0 1 1 2
Trinidad and Tobago TTO 0 1 1 2
Estonia EST 0 1 0 1
Romania ROU 0 1 0 1
Thailand THA 0 1 0 1
Poland POL 0 0 3 3
Kazakhstan KAZ 0 0 2 2
Switzerland SUI 0 0 2 2
Belarus BLR 0 0 1 1
Chinese Taipei TPE 0 0 1 1
Hungary HUN 0 0 1 1
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 0 0 1 1
Venezuela VEN 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Naim Süleymanoğlu TUR 3 0 0 3
Yoshinobu Miyake JPN 2 0 0 2
Li Fabin CHN 2 0 0 2
Ike Berger USA 1 2 0 3
Nikolaj Pešalov BUL
CRO
1 1 0 2
Pierino Gabetti ITA 1 1 0 2
Yevgeny Minayev RUS
URS
1 1 0 2
Óscar Figueroa COL 1 1 0 2

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Albania ALB 1972 Summer Olympics Ymer Pampuri 9 See all
Algeria ALG 1980 Summer Olympics Mohamed Gouni 11 See all
Argentina ARG 1996 Summer Olympics Gustavo Majauskas 20 See all
Armenia ARM 2004 Summer Olympics Armen Ghazaryan 4 See all
Australia AUS 2000 Summer Olympics Yurik Sarkisyan 9 See all
Austria AUT 1928 Summer Olympics Franz Andrysek 1 Gold See all
Azerbaijan AZE 2000 Summer Olympics Elxan Süleymanov 8 See all
Belarus BLR 2000 Summer Olympics Henadzi Aliashchuk 3 Bronze See all
Belgium BEL 1920 Summer Olympics Frans De Haes 1 Gold See all
Brazil BRA 1980 Summer Olympics Paulo de Sene AC See all
Bulgaria BUL 1972 Summer Olympics Norayr Nurikyan 1 Gold See all
Cameroon CMR 1996 Summer Olympics Samson N'Dicka-Matam 25 See all
Canada CAN 1956 Summer Olympics Jules Sylvain 9 See all
Chile CHI 2016 Summer Olympics Julio César Acosta 11 See all
Chinese Taipei TPE 1984 Summer Olympics Tsai Wen-Yee 3 Bronze See all
Colombia COL 2016 Summer Olympics Óscar Figueroa 1 Gold See all
Croatia CRO 2000 Summer Olympics Nikolaj Pešalov 1 Gold See all
Cuba CUB 1980 Summer Olympics Julio Loscos 5 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1920 Summer Olympics Ludvík Wágner 5 See all
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 2012 Summer Olympics Kim Un-Guk 1 Gold See all
Denmark DEN 1948 Summer Olympics Johan Runge 7 See all
Dominican Republic DOM 2020 Summer Olympics Luis García 8 See all
Ecuador ECU 1984 Summer Olympics Héctor Hurtado 16 See all
Egypt EGY 1948 Summer Olympics Mahmoud Fayad 1 Gold See all
El Salvador ESA 2012 Summer Olympics Julio César Salamanca 10 See all
2016 Summer Olympics Julio César Salamanca 10
Estonia EST 1920 Summer Olympics Alfred Schmidt 2 Silver See all
Federated States of Micronesia FSM 2012 Summer Olympics Manuel Minginfel 9 See all
Finland FIN 1984 Summer Olympics Uolevi Kahelin 8 See all
France FRA 1932 Summer Olympics Raymond Suvigny 1 Gold See all
Georgia GEO 2024 Summer Olympics Shota Mishvelidze 6 See all
Germany GER 1932 Summer Olympics Hans Wölpert 2 Silver See all
Great Britain GBR 1924 Summer Olympics Alfred Baxter 7 See all
Greece GRE 1996 Summer Olympics Valerios Leonidis 2 Silver See all
2000 Summer Olympics Leonidas Sampanis 2 Silver
Guatemala GUA 1968 Summer Olympics Francisco Echeverría 20 See all
Guyana GUY 1948 Summer Olympics Alphonso Correia 18 See all
Haiti HAI 2016 Summer Olympics Édouard Joseph DNF See all
Honduras HON 1992 Summer Olympics Osman Manzanares 29 See all
Hungary HUN 1972 Summer Olympics János Benedek 3 Bronze See all
India IND 1952 Summer Olympics Daniel Pon Mony 12 See all
1960 Summer Olympics Laxmi Kanta Das 12
Indonesia INA 2016 Summer Olympics Eko Yuli Irawan 2 Silver See all
2020 Summer Olympics Eko Yuli Irawan 2 Silver
Iraq IRQ 1980 Summer Olympics Fajsal Matloub Fat'hi 10 See all
Ireland IRL 1960 Summer Olympics Sammy Dalzell 22 See all
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 1948 Summer Olympics Jafar Salmasi 3 Bronze See all
Israel ISR 1976 Summer Olympics Eduward Weitz 5 See all
Italy ITA 1924 Summer Olympics Pierino Gabetti 1 Gold See all
Jamaica JAM 1948 Summer Olympics Sigis Williams 17 See all
Japan JPN 1964 Summer Olympics Yoshinobu Miyake 1 Gold See all
1968 Summer Olympics Yoshinobu Miyake 1 Gold
Kazakhstan KAZ 2016 Summer Olympics Farkhad Kharki 3 Bronze See all
2020 Summer Olympics Igor Son 3 Bronze
Kenya KEN 1988 Summer Olympics Juma Abudu 11 See all
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia KSA 2020 Summer Olympics Seraj Al-Saleem 5 See all
Kiribati KIR 2024 Summer Olympics Kaimauri Erati 7 See all
Lebanon LBN 1960 Summer Olympics Salah Chammah 14 See all
Luxembourg LUX 1936 Summer Olympics Franz Conrad 21 See all
Madagascar MAD 2020 Summer Olympics Éric Herman Andriantsitohaina 11 See all
Malaya MAL 1960 Summer Olympics Chung Kum Weng 11 See all
Malaysia MAS 2024 Summer Olympics Aniq Kasdan 4 See all
Mexico MEX 1968 Summer Olympics Manuel Mateos 8 See all
Morocco MAR 2004 Summer Olympics Yacine Zouaki 15 See all
Myanmar MYA 1960 Summer Olympics Tun Kywe 7 See all
Nauru NRU 2000 Summer Olympics Marcus Stephen 11 See all
Nepal NEP 1980 Summer Olympics Rajendra Pradhan 15 See all
Netherlands NED 1920 Summer Olympics Kees Tijman 9 See all
Nicaragua NCA 1984 Summer Olympics Alfredo Palma 17 See all
Nigeria NGR 1980 Summer Olympics Sydney Ikebaku 14 See all
1984 Summer Olympics Lawrence Iquaibom 14
Pakistan PAK 1956 Summer Olympics Muhammad Bashir 18 See all
Palau PLW 2012 Summer Olympics Stevick Patris 13 See all
Panama PAN 1964 Summer Olympics Idelfonso Lee 9 See all
Papua New Guinea PNG 2024 Summer Olympics Morea Baru 5 See all
People's Republic of China CHN 1984 Summer Olympics Chen Weiqiang 1 Gold See all
2004 Summer Olympics Shi Zhiyong 1 Gold
2008 Summer Olympics Zhang Xiangxiang 1 Gold
2020 Summer Olympics Li Fabin 1 Gold
2024 Summer Olympics Li Fabin 1 Gold
Peru PER 2020 Summer Olympics Marcos Antonio Rojas 12 See all
Philippines PHI 1952 Summer Olympics Rodrigo del Rosario 4 See all
Poland POL 1956 Summer Olympics Marian Zieliński 3 Bronze See all
1964 Summer Olympics Mieczysław Nowak 3 Bronze
1980 Summer Olympics Marek Seweryn 3 Bronze
Portugal POR 1928 Summer Olympics António Pereira =11 See all
Puerto Rico PUR 1988 Summer Olympics Ángel Arroyo 10 See all
Republic of Korea KOR 1948 Summer Olympics Nam Su-Il 4 See all
1960 Summer Olympics Kim Hae-Nam 4
1988 Summer Olympics Min Jun-Gi 4
Republic of Moldova MDA 2000 Summer Olympics Vladimir Popov 7 See all
Romania ROU 1984 Summer Olympics Gelu Radu 2 Silver See all
Russian Federation RUS 1996 Summer Olympics Umar Edelkhanov 11 See all
Samoa SAM 2016 Summer Olympics Vaipava Ioane 8 See all
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 1996 Summer Olympics Miodrag Kovačić 34 See all
Seychelles SEY 2016 Summer Olympics Rick Confiance 13 See all
Singapore SGP 1952 Summer Olympics Chay Weng Yew 6 See all
Solomon Islands SOL 1996 Summer Olympics Tony Analau DNF See all
South Africa RSA 1952 Summer Olympics James van Rensburg 18 See all
Soviet Union URS 1952 Summer Olympics Rapael Chimishk'iani 1 Gold See all
1960 Summer Olympics Yevgeny Minayev 1 Gold
1976 Summer Olympics Nikolay Kolesnikov 1 Gold
1980 Summer Olympics Viktor Mazin 1 Gold
Spain ESP 1960 Summer Olympics José Luis Izquierdo 21 See all
Sri Lanka SRI 2016 Summer Olympics Anton Kurukulasooriyage DNF See all
Sweden SWE 1920 Summer Olympics Gustav Eriksson 6 See all
Switzerland SUI 1920 Summer Olympics Eugène Ryter 3 Bronze See all
1924 Summer Olympics Arthur Reinmann 3 Bronze
Syrian Arab Republic SYR 1980 Summer Olympics Faouaz Nadirin 13 See all
Thailand THA 2024 Summer Olympics Theerapong Silachai 2 Silver See all
Trinidad and Tobago TTO 1948 Summer Olympics Rodney Wilkes 2 Silver See all
Turkmenistan TKM 2012 Summer Olympics Ümürbek Bazarbaýew 6 See all
Tuvalu TUV 2012 Summer Olympics Tuau Lapua 11 See all
Türkiye TUR 1988 Summer Olympics Naim Süleymanoğlu 1 Gold See all
1992 Summer Olympics Naim Süleymanoğlu 1 Gold
1996 Summer Olympics Naim Süleymanoğlu 1 Gold
Uganda UGA 2012 Summer Olympics Charles Ssekyaaya 12 See all
United Arab Republic UAR 1960 Summer Olympics Hosni Abbas 6 See all
United States USA 1936 Summer Olympics Tony Terlazzo 1 Gold See all
1956 Summer Olympics Ike Berger 1 Gold
Venezuela VEN 2004 Summer Olympics Israel José Rubio 3 Bronze See all
Vietnam VIE 2020 Summer Olympics Thạch Kim Tuấn DNF See all
2024 Summer Olympics Trịnh Văn Vinh DNF
West Germany FRG 1968 Summer Olympics Dieter Rauscher 11 See all