Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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The weightlifting competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London consisted of six weight classes, all for men only. The bantamweight division was a newly created weight class, marking the first change to the Olympic program since 1920.
Medal summary
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Bantamweight |
Joseph De Pietro (USA) | Julian Creus (GBR) | Richard Tom (USA) |
Featherweight |
22x20px Mahmoud Fayad (EGY) | 22x20px Rodney Wilkes (TRI) | Jafar Salmasi (IRI) |
Lightweight |
22x20px Ibrahim Shams (EGY) | 22x20px Attia Hamouda (EGY) | James Halliday (GBR) |
Middleweight |
Frank Spellman (USA) | Peter George (USA) | Kim Sung-Jip (KOR) |
Light-heavyweight |
Stanley Stanczyk (USA) | Harold Sakata (USA) | Gösta Magnusson (SWE) |
Heavyweight |
John Davis (USA) | Norbert Schemansky (USA) | Abraham Charite (NED) |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | United States (USA) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
2 | 22x20px Egypt (EGY) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
4 | 22x20px Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
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