Weightlifting at the 1951 Asian Games

Weightlifting at the 1951 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	5–8 March 1951

Weightlifting was contested from 5 to 8 March at the 1951 Asian Games in National Stadium, New Delhi, India. The competition included only men's events for seven different weight categories. Iranians dominated in all events and claimed 10 medals in total including seven golds.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight (56 kg)	Mahmoud Namjoo  Iran	Ali Mirzaei  Iran	Pedro Landero  Philippines
Featherweight (60 kg)	Jafar Salmasi  Iran	Rodrigo del Rosario  Philippines	Yukio Iguchi  Japan
Lightweight (67.5 kg)	Hassan Ferdos  Iran	Peter Ho  Singapore	Minoru Kubota  Japan
Middleweight (75 kg)	Firouz Pojhan  Iran	Jalal Mansouri  Iran	Ba Thein  Burma
Light heavyweight (82.5 kg)	Hassan Rahnavardi  Iran	Cheong Kok Cheong  Singapore	Thein Han  Burma
Middle heavyweight (90 kg)	Rasoul Raeisi  Iran	Kamineni Eswara Rao  India	Maung Maung Lwin  Burma
Heavyweight (+90 kg)	Leon Kurukchian  Iran	Ahmad Ordoubadi  Iran	Dandamudi Rajagopal  India

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iran (IRN)	7	3	0	10
2	Singapore (SIN)	0	2	0	2
3	India (IND)	0	1	1	2
	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	1	2
5	Burma (BIR)	0	0	3	3
6	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		7	7	7	21

References

• Results

External links

• Weightlifting Database