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Weightlifting

Games: 24 games in 18 countries
Events: 21

Sports:

Participants: 2,529 (2,324 men and 205 women) from 145 countries
Youngest Participant: LIB Khodor Al-Aywan (15 years, 190 days), 1988 Summer Games
Oldest Participant: USA Rich Schutz (46 years, 353 days), 1992 Summer Games
Top Athlete Medalist(s): 4 athletes with 4 medals
Top Country Medalist(s): URS Soviet Union (62 medals)

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Country Medal Leaders

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Rk Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union 39 21 2 62
2 China 24 11 8 43
3 United States 16 16 9 41
4 Bulgaria 12 16 8 36
5 Poland 4 6 19 29
6 Germany 6 7 12 25
7 Russia 3 8 10 21
8 Hungary 2 9 9 20
9 France 9 3 4 16
10 Greece 7 5 4 16
11 Italy 5 5 5 15
12 Iran 4 3 5 12
13 Japan 2 2 8 12
14 Austria 4 5 2 11
15 South Korea 3 4 4 11
16 Romania 2 6 3 11
17 East Germany 1 4 6 11
18 Turkey 8 1 1 10
19 Unified Team 5 4 0 9
20 Egypt 5 2 2 9
21 North Korea 1 4 4 9
22 Czechoslovakia 3 2 3 8
23 Belarus 1 3 4 8
24 West Germany 2 2 3 7
25 Great Britain 1 3 3 7
26 Estonia 1 3 3 7
27 Thailand 3 0 3 6
28 Ukraine 2 2 2 6
29 Kazakhstan 1 4 1 6
30 Indonesia 0 2 4 6
31 Chinese Taipei 0 1 4 5
32 Cuba 2 1 1 4
33 Belgium 1 2 1 4
34 Australia 1 1 2 4
35 Switzerland 0 2 2 4
36 Sweden 0 0 4 4
37 Armenia 0 0 4 4
38 Denmark 1 2 0 3
39 Colombia 1 1 1 3
40 Finland 1 0 2 3
41 Trinidad and Tobago 0 1 2 3
42 Netherlands 0 0 3 3
43 Croatia 1 0 1 2
44 Georgia 1 0 1 2
45 Canada 0 2 0 2
46 Argentina 0 1 1 2
47 Latvia 0 1 1 2
48 Norway 1 0 0 1
49 Mexico 1 0 0 1
50 Nigeria 0 1 0 1
51 Vietnam 0 1 0 1
52 Luxembourg 0 1 0 1
53 Singapore 0 1 0 1
54 Lebanon 0 1 0 1
55 Iraq 0 0 1 1
56 India 0 0 1 1
57 Venezuela 0 0 1 1
58 Qatar 0 0 1 1

Athlete Medal Leaders

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Rk Athlete Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Pyrros Dimas (GRE) 3 0 1 4
2 Ronny Weller (GER, GDR) 1 2 1 4
3 Nikolai Peshalov (BUL, CRO) 1 1 2 4
4 Norb Schemansky (USA) 1 1 2 4
5 Naim Süleymanoğlu (TUR) 3 0 0 3
6 Akakios "K'akhi" K'akhiashvili (GRE, EUN) 3 0 0 3
7 Halil Mutlu (TUR) 3 0 0 3
8 Tommy Kono (USA) 2 1 0 3
9 Louis Hostin (FRA) 2 1 0 3
10 Yoshinobu Miyake (JPN) 2 1 0 3
11 Arkady Vorobyov (URS) 2 0 1 3
12 Imre Földi (HUN) 1 2 0 3
13 Carlo Galimberti (ITA) 1 2 0 3
14 Pete George (USA) 1 2 0 3
15 Ike Berger (USA) 1 2 0 3
16 Mohammad Nassiri (IRI) 1 1 1 3
17 Nicu Vlad (ROU) 1 1 1 3
18 Manfred Nerlinger (GER, FRG) 0 1 2 3
19 Marian Zieliński (POL) 0 0 3 3
20 Waldemar Baszanowski (POL) 2 0 0 2
21 Norair Nurikyan (BUL) 2 0 0 2
22 Hossein Reza Zadeh (IRI) 2 0 0 2
23 Leonid Zhabotinsky (URS) 2 0 0 2
24 Chuck Vinci (USA) 2 0 0 2
25 Zhan Xugang (CHN) 2 0 0 2
26 Vasily Alekseyev (URS) 2 0 0 2
27 Aleksandr Kurlovich (EUN, URS) 2 0 0 2
28 Liu Chunhong (CHN) 2 0 0 2
29 Chen Yanqing (CHN) 2 0 0 2
30 John Davis (USA) 2 0 0 2
31 Stan Stanczyk (USA) 1 1 0 2
32 Launceston Elliot (GBR) 1 1 0 2
33 Israil Militosyan (EUN, URS) 1 1 0 2
34 Yevgeny Minayev (URS) 1 1 0 2
35 Rudolf Ismayr (GER) 1 1 0 2
36 Trofim Lomakin (URS) 1 1 0 2
37 Tymur Taimazov (EUN, UKR) 1 1 0 2
38 Pablo Lara (CUB) 1 1 0 2
39 Viktor Kurentsov (URS) 1 1 0 2
40 Jeon Byeong-Gwan (KOR) 1 1 0 2
41 Oscar Osthoff (USA) 1 1 0 2
42 Leonid Taranenko (EUN, URS) 1 1 0 2
43 Josef Steinbach (AUT) 1 1 0 2
44 Yury Vlasov (URS) 1 1 0 2
45 Hans Haas (AUT) 1 1 0 2
46 Viggo Jensen (DEN) 1 1 0 2
47 Jang Mi-Ran (KOR) 1 1 0 2
48 Alfred Neuland (EST) 1 1 0 2
49 Anatoly Khrapaty (URS, KAZ) 1 1 0 2
50 Jaan Talts (URS) 1 1 0 2
51 Pierino Gabetti (ITA) 1 1 0 2
52 Joachim Kunz (GDR) 1 1 0 2
53 Jaroslav Skobla (TCH) 1 0 1 2
54 Ibrahim Hassanien Shams (EGY) 1 0 1 2
55 Andrey Chemerkin (RUS) 1 0 1 2
56 Péter Baczakó (HUN) 1 0 1 2
57 Giorgi Asanidze (GEO) 1 0 1 2
58 Aleksey Petrov (RUS) 1 0 1 2
59 Tony Terlazzo (USA) 1 0 1 2
60 Zhang Xiangxiang (CHN) 1 0 1 2
61 Josef Straßberger (GER) 1 0 1 2
62 Ireneusz Paliński (POL) 1 0 1 2
63 Yoto Yotov (BUL) 0 2 0 2
64 Ri Song-Hui (PRK) 0 2 0 2
65 Václav Pšenička, Sr. (TCH) 0 2 0 2
66 Raema Lisa Rumbewas (INA) 0 2 0 2
67 Sergey Syrtsov (RUS, EUN) 0 2 0 2
68 Andrey Rybakov (BLR) 0 2 0 2
69 Jim Bradford (USA) 0 2 0 2
70 Marc Huster (GER) 0 2 0 2
71 Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) 0 2 0 2
72 Szymon Kołecki (POL) 0 2 0 2
73 Dito Shanidze (URS) 0 2 0 2
74 Fritz Hünenberger (SUI) 0 2 0 2
75 Hans Wölpert (GER) 0 1 1 2
76 He Yingqiang (CHN) 0 1 1 2
77 Norbert Ozimek (POL) 0 1 1 2
78 Viktors Ščerbatihs (LAT) 0 1 1 2
79 Louis Martin (GBR) 0 1 1 2
80 Humberto Selvetti (ARG) 0 1 1 2
81 Mahmoud Namdjou (IRI) 0 1 1 2
82 Agata Wróbel (POL) 0 1 1 2
83 Atanas Shopov (BUL) 0 1 1 2
84 Rodney Wilkes (TRI) 0 1 1 2
85 Khadzhimurat Akkayev (RUS) 0 1 1 2
86 Liu Shoubin (CHN) 0 1 1 2
87 Valentina Popova (RUS) 0 1 1 2
88 Gerd Bonk (GDR) 0 1 1 2
89 Jim George (USA) 0 1 1 2
90 Kim Myong-Nam (PRK) 0 1 1 2
91 Arnold Luhaäär (EST) 0 1 1 2
92 Masashi Ohuchi (JPN) 0 1 1 2
93 Győző Veres (HUN) 0 0 2 2
94 Tadeusz Rutkowski (POL) 0 0 2 2
95 Stefan Botev Khristov (AUS, BUL) 0 0 2 2
96 Kim Seong-Jip (KOR) 0 0 2 2
97 Frank Kugler (GER) 0 0 2 2
98 Heinrich Schneidereit (GER) 0 0 2 2

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