World Weightlifting Championships

The World Weightlifting Championships is an event organised by International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The first competition, held in March 1891, was won by Edward Lawrence Levy of England.

Athletes compete in a total of 15 weight categories (8 for men and 7 for women):

• Men categories: 56 kg, 62 kg, 69 kg, 77 kg, 85 kg, 94 kg, 105 kg and +105 kg.
• Women categories: 48 kg, 53 kg, 58 kg, 63 kg, 69 kg, 75 kg and +75 kg.

Competitions

Men

#	Year	Dates	City and host country	# Athletes	# Countries
I	1891	March 28	London, United Kingdom	7	6
II	1898	July 31 – August 1	Vienna, Austria-Hungary	11	3
III	1899	April 4–5	Milan, Italy	5	3
IV	1903	October 1–3	Paris, France	18	5
V	1904	April 18	Vienna, Austria-Hungary	13	4
VI	1905	April 8–10	Berlin, Germany	41	4
VII	1905	June 11–13	Duisburg, Germany	7	2
VIII	1905	December 16 & 30	Paris, France	16	1
IX	1906	March 18	Lille, France	33	4
X	1907	May 19	Frankfurt, Germany	23	3
XI	1908	December 8–9	Vienna, Austria-Hungary	23	2
XII	1909	October 3 & December 2	Vienna, Austria-Hungary	23	3
XIII	1910	June 4–6	Düsseldorf, Germany	57	5
XIV	1910	October 9–10	Vienna, Austria-Hungary	15	2
XV	1911	April 29–30	Stuttgart, Germany	36	3
XVI	1911	May 13–14	Berlin, Germany	27	2
XVII	1911	June 26	Dresden, Germany	21	3
XVIII	1911	June 29 – July 2	Vienna, Austria-Hungary	32	3
XIX	1913	July 28–29	Breslau, Germany	40	4
XX	1920	September 4–8	Vienna, Austria	74	4
XXI	1922	April 29–30	Tallinn, Estonia	33	4
XXII	1923	September 8–9	Vienna, Austria	76	7
XXIII	1937	September 10–12	Paris, France	50	10
XXIV	1938	October 21–23	Vienna, Germany	38	11
XXV	1946	October 18–19	Paris, France	79	13
XXVI	1947	September 26–27	Philadelphia, United States	39	12
XXVII	1949	September 4–6	Scheveningen, Netherlands	38	13
XXVIII	1950	October 13–15	Paris, France	56	17
XXIX	1951	October 26–28	Milan, Italy	62	14
XXX	1953	August 26–30	Stockholm, Sweden	70	19
XXXI	1954	October 7–10	Vienna, Austria	100	23
XXXII	1955	October 12–16	Munich, West Germany	108	25
XXXIII	1957	November 8–12	Tehran, Iran	76	21
XXXIV	1958	September 16–21	Stockholm, Sweden	96	27
XXXV	1959	September 29 – October 4	Warsaw, Poland	85	19
XXXVI	1961	September 20–25	Vienna, Austria	120	33
XXXVII	1962	September 16–22	Budapest, Hungary	113	27
XXXVIII	1963	September 16–22	Stockholm, Sweden	134	32
XXXIX	1964	October 11–18	Tokyo, Japan	149	42
XL	1965	October 27 – November 3	Tehran, Iran	85	24
XLI	1966	October 15–21	East Berlin, East Germany	117	28
XLII	1968	October 13–19	Mexico City, Mexico	160	55
XLIII	1969	September 20–28	Warsaw, Poland	166	37
XLIV	1970	September 12–20	Columbus, United States	129	28
XLV	1971	September 18–26	Lima, Peru	144	30
XLVI	1972	August 27 – September 6	Munich, West Germany	188	54
XLVII	1973	September 15–23	Havana, Cuba	189	39
XLVIII	1974	September 21–29	Manila, Philippines	143	32
XLIX	1975	September 15–23	Moscow, Soviet Union	169	33
L	1976	July 18–27	Montreal, Canada	173	46
LI	1977	September 17–25	Stuttgart, West Germany	186	44
LII	1978	October 4–8	Gettysburg, United States	185	35
LIII	1979	November 3–11	Thessaloniki, Greece	189	39
LIV	1980	July 20–30	Moscow, Soviet Union	173	40
LV	1981	September 13–20	Lille, France	194	35
LVI	1982	September 18–26	Ljubljana, Yugoslavia	205	38
LVII	1983	October 22–31	Moscow, Soviet Union	187	32
LVIII	1984	July 29 – August 8	Los Angeles, United States	187	48
LIX	1985	August 23 – September 1	Södertälje, Sweden	195	38
LX	1986	November 8–15	Sofia, Bulgaria	193	41
LXI	1987	September 6–13	Ostrava, Czechoslovakia	168	29
LXII	1989	September 16–23	Athens, Greece	220	37
LXIII	1990	November 10–18	Budapest, Hungary	182	38

• The weightlifting tournaments held during Summer Olympics in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 are counted as World Weightlifting Championships of the corresponding year.

Women

#	Year	Dates	City and host country	# Athletes	# Countries
I	1987	October 30 – November 1	Daytona Beach, United States	100	22
II	1988	December 2–4	Jakarta, Indonesia	103	23
III	1989	November 24–26	Manchester, United Kingdom	133	25
IV	1990	May 26 – June 3	Sarajevo, Yugoslavia	109	25

Combined

#		Year	Dates	City and host country	Men		Women
M	W				# Athletes	# Countries	# Athletes	# Countries
LXIV	V	1991	September 27 – October 6	Donaueschingen, Germany	200	40	108	24
—	VI	1992	May 16–24	Varna, Bulgaria	—	—	110	25
LXV	VII	1993	November 11–21	Melbourne, Australia	195	57	94	25
LXVI	VIII	1994	November 17–27	Istanbul, Turkey	242	52	105	30
LXVII	IX	1995	November 16–26	Guangzhou, China	345	63	93	26
—	X	1996	May 3–11	Warsaw, Poland	—	—	102	24
LXVIII	XI	1997	December 6–14	Chiang Mai, Thailand	189	51	143	39
LXIX	XII	1998	November 10–15	Lahti, Finland	210	53	122	35
LXX	XIII	1999	November 21–28	Athens, Greece	395	79	231	51
LXXI	XIV	2001	November 4–11	Antalya, Turkey	153	47	114	34
LXXII	XV	2002	November 18–26	Warsaw, Poland	170	47	115	37
LXXIII	XVI	2003	November 14–22	Vancouver, Canada	297	59	208	47
LXXIV	XVII	2005	November 9–17	Doha, Qatar	169	58	112	42
LXXV	XVIII	2006	September 30 – October 7	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	298	58	186	39
LXXVI	XIX	2007	September 17–26	Chiang Mai, Thailand	355	70	225	53
LXXVII	XX	2009	November 20–29	Goyang, South Korea	196	57	133	38
LXXVIII	XXI	2010	September 17–26	Antalya, Turkey	312	63	203	50
LXXIX	XXII	2011	November 5–13	Paris, France	307	75	212	61
LXXX	XXIII	2013	October 20–27	Wrocław, Poland	168	49	124	37
LXXXI	XXIV	2014	November 8–16	Almaty, Kazakhstan	307	62	219	51
LXXXII	XXV	2015	November 20–28	Houston, United States	324	76	261	72
LXXXIII	XXVI	2017		Penang, Malaysia
LXXXIV	XXVII	2018		Lima, Peru

All-time medal table

All-time big (total) medal count below is until the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	165	74	37	276
2	Soviet Union	151	90	33	274
3	Bulgaria	79	82	63	224
4	United States	39	49	29	117
5	Russia	38	47	34	119
6	Austria	32	27	31	90
7	Germany	27	39	30	96
8	Poland	25	36	56	117
9	Iran	19	10	24	53
10	Kazakhstan	15	7	7	29
11	Turkey	14	20	15	49
12	Chinese Taipei	12	20	24	56
13	Hungary	11	38	42	91
14	North Korea	10	17	20	47
15	Greece	10	15	11	36
16	Japan	10	11	27	48
17	Egypt	9	10	13	32
18	Cuba	8	4	11	23
19	France	7	11	18	36
20	Ukraine	7	5	16	28
21	Belarus	7	5	6	18
22	South Korea	6	15	20	41
23	Romania	5	13	10	28
24	Great Britain	5	3	9	17
25	East Germany	4	19	29	52
26	Switzerland	4	4	2	10
27	Finland	4	2	10	16
28	Qatar	4	1	3	8
29	Thailand	3	11	15	29
30	Czechoslovakia	3	3	15	21
31	Estonia	3	3	7	13
32	Azerbaijan	3	2	4	9
33	India	2	8	5	15
34	Indonesia	2	6	9	17
35	Armenia	2	6	6	14
36	Colombia	2	5	4	11
37	Italy	1	5	7	13
38	Australia	1	3	4	8
39	Georgia	1	3	0	4
	Norway	1	3	0	4
41	Latvia	1	2	5	8
42	Canada	1	2	4	7
43	Sweden	1	1	6	8
44	Uzbekistan	1	1	1	3
45	Slovakia	1	0	1	2
46	Turkmenistan	1	0	0	1
47	Belgium	0	4	3	7
48	Denmark	0	3	0	3
49	Vietnam	0	2	4	6
50	Netherlands	0	2	0	2
51	Nigeria	0	1	3	4
	Spain	0	1	3	4
53	Moldova	0	1	2	3
54	Argentina	0	1	1	2
	Ecuador	0	1	1	2
56	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Guyana	0	1	0	1
	Lebanon	0	1	0	1
59	Myanmar	0	0	5	5
60	Dominican Republic	0	0	3	3
61	Iraq	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Macau	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Philippines	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Total		757	757	755	2269

Multiple medalists

The table shows those who have won at least 5 gold medals in total result.

Athlete	Country	Gender				Total
Vasily Alekseyev	Soviet Union	M	8	0	0	8
Yurik Vardanyan	Soviet Union	M	7	1	0	8
Naim Süleymanoğlu	Bulgaria / Turkey	M	7	1	0	8
Josef Grafl	Austria	M	6	2	0	8
Tommy Kono	United States	M	6	1	1	8
John Davis	United States	M	6	1	0	7
Yoshinobu Miyake	Japan	M	6	0	1	7
David Rigert	Soviet Union	M	6	0	1	7
Waldemar Baszanowski	Poland	M	5	5	0	10
Arkady Vorobyov	Soviet Union	M	5	2	1	8
Pete George	United States	M	5	2	0	7
Yanko Rusev	Bulgaria	M	5	2	0	7
Halil Mutlu	Turkey	M	5	2	0	7
Mohammad Nassiri	Iran	M	5	1	3	9
Viktor Kurentsov	Soviet Union	M	5	1	0	6
Stanley Stanczyk	United States	M	5	0	2	7
Anatoly Khrapaty	Soviet Union / Kazakhstan	M	5	0	2	7
Vladimir Stogov	Soviet Union	M	5	0	1	6

See also

• Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics
• List of World Championships medalists in weightlifting (men)
• List of World Championships medalists in weightlifting (women)

External links

• International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)
• Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics
• Database IWRP