Weightlifting — Bantamweight, Men (discontinued)

Times held 18
Total participants 296
Total countries 82

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1948 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 14
1952 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 18
1956 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 16 13
1960 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 22 18
1964 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 24 18
1968 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 20 19
1972 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 24 19
1976 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 24 19
1980 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 17
1984 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 20 18
1988 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 23 17
1992 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 22 17
1996 Bantamweight (≤59 kilograms), Men Olympic 20 19
2000 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 22 19
2004 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 17 14
2008 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 16
2012 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 18 15
2016 Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 17

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1948 Joe DePietroUSA Julian CreusGBR Rich TomUSA
1952 Ivan UdodovURS Mahmoud NamdjouIRI Ali MirzaiIRI
1956 Chuck VinciUSA Vladimir StogovURS Mahmoud NamdjouIRI
1960 Chuck VinciUSA Yoshinobu MiyakeJPN Ismail Elm KhahIRI
1964 Aleksey VakhoninURS Imre FöldiHUN Shiro IchinosekiJPN
1968 Mohammad NassiriIRI Imre FöldiHUN Henryk TrębickiPOL
1972 Imre FöldiHUN Mohammad NassiriIRI Gennady ChetinURS
1976 Norayr NurikyanBUL Grzegorz CziuraPOL Kenkichi AndoJPN
1980 Daniel NúñezCUB Yurik SarkisyanURS Tadeusz DembończykPOL
1984 Wu ShudeCHN Lai RunmingCHN Masahiro KotakaJPN
1988 Oksen MirzoyanURS He YingqiangCHN Liu ShoubinCHN
1992 Jeon Byeong-GwanKOR Liu ShoubinCHN Luo JianmingCHN
1996 Tang LingshengCHN Leonidas SampanisGRE Nikolay PeshalovBUL
2000 Halil MutluTUR Wu WenxiongCHN Zhang XiangxiangCHN
2004 Halil MutluTUR Wu MeijinCHN Sedat ArtuçTUR
2008 Long QingquanCHN Hoàng Anh TuấnVIE Eko Yuli IrawanINA
2012 Om Yun-CholPRK Wu JingbiaoCHN Trần Lê Quốc ToànVIE
2016 Long QingquanCHN Om Yun-CholPRK Sinphet KruaithongTHA

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
People's Republic of China CHN 4 6 3 13
Soviet Union URS 3 2 1 6
United States USA 3 0 1 4
Türkiye TUR 2 0 1 3
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 1 2 3 6
Hungary HUN 1 2 0 3
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 1 1 0 2
Bulgaria BUL 1 0 1 2
Cuba CUB 1 0 0 1
Republic of Korea KOR 1 0 0 1
Japan JPN 0 1 3 4
Poland POL 0 1 2 3
Vietnam VIE 0 1 1 2
Great Britain GBR 0 1 0 1
Greece GRE 0 1 0 1
Indonesia INA 0 0 1 1
Thailand THA 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Halil Mutlu TUR 2 0 0 2
Chuck Vinci USA 2 0 0 2
Long Qingquan CHN 2 0 0 2
Imre Földi HUN 1 2 0 3
Mohammad Nassiri IRI 1 1 0 2
Om Yun-Chol PRK 1 1 0 2