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Weightlifting
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Weightlifting; at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
	Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics on a stamp of Japan.
Venue	Shibuya Public Hall
Dates	11–18 October 1964
Competitors	149 from 42 nations
	← 1960 1968 →

The weightlifting competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. It also counted as 1964 World Weightlifting Championships.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight (56 kg) details	Aleksey Vakhonin Soviet Union	357.5 kg	Imre Földi Hungary	355.0 kg	Shiro Ichinoseki Japan	347.5 kg
Featherweight (60 kg) details	Yoshinobu Miyake Japan	397.5 kg	Isaac Berger United States	382.5 kg	Mieczysław Nowak Poland	377.5 kg
Lightweight (67.5 kg) details	Waldemar Baszanowski Poland	432.5 kg	Vladimir Kaplunov Soviet Union	432.5 kg	Marian Zieliński Poland	420.0 kg
Middleweight (75 kg) details	Hans Zdražila Czechoslovakia	445.0 kg	Viktor Kurentsov Soviet Union	440.0 kg	Masushi Ouchi Japan	437.5 kg
Light heavyweight (82.5 kg) details	Rudolf Plyukfelder Soviet Union	475.0 kg	Géza Tóth Hungary	467.5 kg	Győző Veres Hungary	467.5 kg
Middle heavyweight (90 kg) details	Vladimir Golovanov Soviet Union	487.5 kg	Louis Martin Great Britain	475.0 kg	Ireneusz Paliński Poland	467.5 kg
Heavyweight (+90 kg) details	Leonid Zhabotinsky Soviet Union	572.5 kg	Yury Vlasov Soviet Union	570.0 kg	Norbert Schemansky United States	537.5 kg

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	3	0	7
2	Poland (POL)	1	0	3	4
3	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
6	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21