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Weightlifting

Facts

Disciplines	Weightlifting
Participants	3004
NOCs	155
Competitions held	227
Distinct events	33
IF	International Weightlifting Federation, Amateur-Athleten-Weltunion, Internationaler Kraftsportverband

Description

All-time medal table

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Soviet Union	URS	39	21	2	62
People's Republic of China	CHN	38	16	8	62
United States	USA	16	17	13	46
Bulgaria	BUL	12	17	8	37
Islamic Republic of Iran	IRI	9	6	5	20
France	FRA	9	3	3	15
Türkiye	TUR	8	1	2	11
Germany	GER	6	7	7	20
Poland	POL	6	6	22	34
Greece	GRE	6	5	4	15
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	PRK	5	8	5	18
Italy	ITA	5	5	7	17
Unified Team	EUN	5	4	0	9
Egypt	EGY	5	3	6	14
Thailand	THA	5	2	7	14
Russian Federation	RUS	4	7	6	17
Chinese Taipei	TPE	4	2	4	10
Republic of Korea	KOR	3	6	6	15
Austria	AUT	3	4	2	9
Czechoslovakia	TCH	3	2	3	8
Georgia	GEO	3	1	3	7
Hungary	HUN	2	9	9	20
Romania	ROU	2	6	3	11
Colombia	COL	2	4	3	9
Japan	JPN	2	3	10	15
West Germany	FRG	2	2	3	7
Canada	CAN	2	2	1	5
Cuba	CUB	2	1	5	8
Ukraine	UKR	2	1	2	5
Uzbekistan	UZB	2	0	1	3
East Germany	GDR	1	4	6	11
Belarus	BLR	1	4	3	8
Great Britain	GBR	1	4	3	8
Kazakhstan	KAZ	1	3	7	11
Estonia	EST	1	3	3	7
Belgium	BEL	1	2	1	4
Denmark	DEN	1	2	0	3
Australia	AUS	1	1	2	4
Spain	ESP	1	1	1	3
Ecuador	ECU	1	1	0	2
Philippines	PHI	1	1	0	2
Mexico	MEX	1	0	3	4
Finland	FIN	1	0	2	3
Croatia	CRO	1	0	1	2
Qatar	QAT	1	0	1	2
Norway	NOR	1	0	0	1
Indonesia	INA	0	7	8	15
Armenia	ARM	0	4	2	6
Switzerland	SUI	0	2	2	4
Venezuela	VEN	0	2	1	3
Latvia	LAT	0	1	2	3
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	0	1	2	3
Argentina	ARG	0	1	1	2
Dominican Republic	DOM	0	1	1	2
India	IND	0	1	1	2
Nigeria	NGR	0	1	1	2
Vietnam	VIE	0	1	1	2
Lebanon	LBN	0	1	0	1
Luxembourg	LUX	0	1	0	1
Samoa	SAM	0	1	0	1
Singapore	SGP	0	1	0	1
Turkmenistan	TKM	0	1	0	1
Sweden	SWE	0	0	4	4
Netherlands	NED	0	0	3	3
Cameroon	CMR	0	0	1	1
Iraq	IRQ	0	0	1	1
Lithuania	LTU	0	0	1	1
Syrian Arab Republic	SYR	0	0	1	1

Most successful competitors

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Pyrros Dimas	GRE	3	0	1	4
Akakios Kakiasvili	GEO GRE EUN	3	0	0	3
Halil Mutlu	TUR	3	0	0	3
Naim Süleymanoğlu	TUR	3	0	0	3
Louis Hostin	FRA	2	1	0	3
Yoshinobu Miyake	JPN	2	1	0	3
Tommy Kono	USA	2	1	0	3
Lu Xiaojun	CHN	2	1	0	3
Arkady Vorobyov	RUS URS	2	0	1	3
Norayr Nurikyan	BUL	2	0	0	2
Zhan Xugang	CHN	2	0	0	2
Waldemar Baszanowski	POL	2	0	0	2
Vasily Alekseyev	RUS URS	2	0	0	2
Aliaksandr Kurlovich	BLR URS EUN	2	0	0	2
Leonid Zhabotinsky	URS UKR	2	0	0	2
John Davis	USA	2	0	0	2
Chuck Vinci	USA	2	0	0	2
Hossein Reza Zadeh	IRI	2	0	0	2
Chen Yanqing	CHN	2	0	0	2
Long Qingquan	CHN	2	0	0	2
Hsu Shu-Ching	TPE	2	0	0	2
Rim Jong-Sim	PRK	2	0	0	2
Lasha Talakhadze	GEO	2	0	0	2
Shi Zhiyong	CHN	2	0	0	2

Event types

Discipline	Name	Gender	Still contested?	Times held?
Weightlifting	Featherweight	Men		24
Weightlifting	Lightweight	Men		24
Weightlifting	Middleweight	Men		24
Weightlifting	Light-Heavyweight	Men		24
Weightlifting	Middle-Heavyweight	Men		18
Weightlifting	Heavyweight	Men		19
Weightlifting	Super-Heavyweight	Men		13
Weightlifting	Flyweight	Women		6
Weightlifting	Featherweight	Women		6
Weightlifting	Lightweight	Women		6
Weightlifting	Middleweight	Women		6
Weightlifting	Light-Heavyweight	Women		6
Weightlifting	Heavyweight	Women		6
Weightlifting	Super-Heavyweight	Women		6
Weightlifting	Bantamweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Featherweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Lightweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Middleweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Heavyweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Super-Heavyweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Bantamweight	Girls		1
Weightlifting	Featherweight	Girls		3
Weightlifting	Lightweight	Girls		3
Weightlifting	Middleweight	Girls		3
Weightlifting	Heavyweight	Girls		3
Weightlifting	Super-Heavyweight	Girls		3
Weightlifting	Flyweight	Men		7
Weightlifting	Bantamweight	Men		18
Weightlifting	Heavyweight I	Men		5
Weightlifting	Heavyweight II	Men		5
Weightlifting	Unlimited, One Hand	Men		3
Weightlifting	Unlimited, Two Hands	Men		4
Weightlifting	All-Around Dumbbell Contest	Men		1