Weightlifting — Featherweight, Men

Times held 24
Total participants 395
Total countries 100

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1920 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 14 11
1924 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 11
1928 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 13
1932 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 6 4
1936 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 13
1948 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 23 18
1952 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 22 21
1956 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 19
1960 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 25
1964 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 22 20
1968 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 22
1972 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 13 11
1976 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 17 14
1980 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 18 14
1984 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 17
1988 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 17 14
1992 Featherweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 31 26
1996 Featherweight (≤64 kilograms), Men Olympic 36 26
2000 Featherweight (≤62 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 21
2004 Featherweight (≤62 kilograms), Men Olympic 20 18
2008 Featherweight (≤62 kilograms), Men Olympic 17 15
2012 Featherweight (≤62 kilograms), Men Olympic 15 13
2016 Featherweight (≤62 kilograms), Men Olympic 17 15
2020 Featherweight (≤61 kilograms), Men Olympic 14 14

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1920 Frans De HaesBEL Alfred SchmidtEST Eugène RyterSUI
1924 Pierino GabettiITA Andreas StadlerAUT Arthur ReinmannSUI
1928 Franz AndrysekAUT Pierino GabettiITA Hans WölpertGER
1932 Raymond SuvignyFRA Hans WölpertGER Tony TerlazzoUSA
1936 Tony TerlazzoUSA Saleh MohamedEGY Ibrahim ShamsEGY
1948 Mahmoud FayadEGY Rodney WilkesTTO Jafar SalmasiIRI
1952 Rapael Chimishk'ianiURS Nikolay SaksonovURS Rodney WilkesTTO
1956 Ike BergerUSA Yevgeny MinayevURS Marian ZielińskiPOL
1960 Yevgeny MinayevURS Ike BergerUSA Sebastiano MannironiITA
1964 Yoshinobu MiyakeJPN Ike BergerUSA Mieczysław NowakPOL
1968 Yoshinobu MiyakeJPN Dito ShanidzeURS Yoshiyuki MiyakeJPN
1972 Norayr NurikyanBUL Dito ShanidzeURS János BenedekHUN
1976 Nikolay KolesnikovURS Georgi TodorovBUL Kazumasa HiraiJPN
1980 Viktor MazinURS Stefan DimitrovBUL Marek SewerynPOL
1984 Chen WeiqiangCHN Gelu RaduROU Tsai Wen-YeeTPE
1988 Naim SüleymanoğluTUR Stefan TopurovBUL Ye HuanmingCHN
1992 Naim SüleymanoğluTUR Nikolay PeshalovBUL He YingqiangCHN
1996 Naim SüleymanoğluTUR Valerios LeonidisGRE Xiao JiangangCHN
2000 Nikolaj PešalovCRO Leonidas SampanisGRE Henadzi AliashchukBLR
2004 Shi ZhiyongCHN Le MaoshengCHN Israel José RubioVEN
2008 Zhang XiangxiangCHN Diego Fernando SalazarCOL TriyatnoINA
2012 Kim Un-GukPRK Óscar FigueroaCOL Eko Yuli IrawanINA
2016 Óscar FigueroaCOL Eko Yuli IrawanINA Farkhad KharkiKAZ
2020 Li FabinCHN Eko Yuli IrawanINA Igor SonKAZ

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Soviet Union URS 4 4 0 8
People's Republic of China CHN 4 1 3 8
Türkiye TUR 3 0 0 3
United States USA 2 2 1 5
Japan JPN 2 0 2 4
Bulgaria BUL 1 4 0 5
Colombia COL 1 2 0 3
Egypt EGY 1 1 1 3
Italy ITA 1 1 1 3
Austria AUT 1 1 0 2
Belgium BEL 1 0 0 1
Croatia CRO 1 0 0 1
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 1 0 0 1
France FRA 1 0 0 1
Indonesia INA 0 2 2 4
Greece GRE 0 2 0 2
Germany GER 0 1 1 2
Trinidad and Tobago TTO 0 1 1 2
Estonia EST 0 1 0 1
Romania ROU 0 1 0 1
Poland POL 0 0 3 3
Kazakhstan KAZ 0 0 2 2
Switzerland SUI 0 0 2 2
Belarus BLR 0 0 1 1
Chinese Taipei TPE 0 0 1 1
Hungary HUN 0 0 1 1
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 0 0 1 1
Venezuela VEN 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Naim Süleymanoğlu TUR 3 0 0 3
Yoshinobu Miyake JPN 2 0 0 2
Ike Berger USA 1 2 0 3
Nikolaj Pešalov BUL
CRO
1 1 0 2
Pierino Gabetti ITA 1 1 0 2
Yevgeny Minayev RUS
URS
1 1 0 2
Óscar Figueroa COL 1 1 0 2