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Weightlifting

Facts

Disciplines	Weightlifting
Participants	3072
NOCs	158
Competitions held	237
Distinct events	33
IF	International Weightlifting Federation, Amateur-Athleten-Weltunion, Internationaler Kraftsportverband

Description

All-time medal table

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
People's Republic of China	CHN	43	16	8	67
Soviet Union	URS	39	21	2	62
United States	USA	17	17	14	48
Bulgaria	BUL	13	17	9	39
Islamic Republic of Iran	IRI	9	6	5	20
France	FRA	9	3	3	15
Türkiye	TUR	8	1	2	11
Germany	GER	6	7	7	20
Poland	POL	6	6	22	34
Greece	GRE	6	5	4	15
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	PRK	5	8	5	18
Italy	ITA	5	5	8	18
Thailand	THA	5	4	8	17
Egypt	EGY	5	4	6	15
Unified Team	EUN	5	4	0	9
Russian Federation	RUS	4	7	6	17
Chinese Taipei	TPE	4	2	5	11
Georgia	GEO	4	1	3	8
Republic of Korea	KOR	3	7	7	17
Austria	AUT	3	4	2	9
Czechoslovakia	TCH	3	2	3	8
Hungary	HUN	2	9	9	20
Romania	ROU	2	7	3	12
Colombia	COL	2	6	3	11
Japan	JPN	2	3	10	15
Canada	CAN	2	3	1	6
West Germany	FRG	2	2	3	7
Cuba	CUB	2	1	5	8
Ukraine	UKR	2	1	2	5
Uzbekistan	UZB	2	1	1	4
Norway	NOR	2	0	0	2
Indonesia	INA	1	7	8	16
East Germany	GDR	1	4	6	11
Great Britain	GBR	1	4	4	9
Belarus	BLR	1	4	3	8
Kazakhstan	KAZ	1	3	7	11
Estonia	EST	1	3	3	7
Belgium	BEL	1	2	1	4
Denmark	DEN	1	2	0	3
Australia	AUS	1	1	2	4
Ecuador	ECU	1	1	2	4
Spain	ESP	1	1	1	3
Philippines	PHI	1	1	0	2
Mexico	MEX	1	0	3	4
Finland	FIN	1	0	2	3
Croatia	CRO	1	0	1	2
Qatar	QAT	1	0	1	2
Armenia	ARM	0	5	2	7
Switzerland	SUI	0	2	2	4
Venezuela	VEN	0	2	1	3
Latvia	LAT	0	1	2	3
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	0	1	2	3
Argentina	ARG	0	1	1	2
Dominican Republic	DOM	0	1	1	2
India	IND	0	1	1	2
Nigeria	NGR	0	1	1	2
Vietnam	VIE	0	1	1	2
Lebanon	LBN	0	1	0	1
Luxembourg	LUX	0	1	0	1
Samoa	SAM	0	1	0	1
Singapore	SGP	0	1	0	1
Turkmenistan	TKM	0	1	0	1
Sweden	SWE	0	0	4	4
Netherlands	NED	0	0	3	3
Bahrain	BRN	0	0	1	1
Cameroon	CMR	0	0	1	1
Individual Neutral Athletes	AIN	0	0	1	1
Iraq	IRQ	0	0	1	1
Lithuania	LTU	0	0	1	1
Syrian Arab Republic	SYR	0	0	1	1

Most successful competitors

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Pyrros Dimas	GRE	3	0	1	4
Akakios Kakiasvili	GEO GRE EUN	3	0	0	3
Halil Mutlu	TUR	3	0	0	3
Naim Süleymanoğlu	TUR	3	0	0	3
Lasha Talakhadze	GEO	3	0	0	3
Louis Hostin	FRA	2	1	0	3
Yoshinobu Miyake	JPN	2	1	0	3
Tommy Kono	USA	2	1	0	3
Lu Xiaojun	CHN	2	1	0	3
Arkady Vorobyov	RUS URS	2	0	1	3

Event types

Discipline	Name	Gender	Still contested?	Times held?
Weightlifting	Featherweight	Men		25
Weightlifting	Lightweight	Men		24
Weightlifting	Middleweight	Men		25
Weightlifting	Light-Heavyweight	Men		25
Weightlifting	Middle-Heavyweight	Men		18
Weightlifting	Heavyweight	Men		20
Weightlifting	Super-Heavyweight	Men		14
Weightlifting	Flyweight	Women		7
Weightlifting	Featherweight	Women		6
Weightlifting	Lightweight	Women		7
Weightlifting	Middleweight	Women		7
Weightlifting	Light-Heavyweight	Women		6
Weightlifting	Heavyweight	Women		7
Weightlifting	Super-Heavyweight	Women		7
Weightlifting	Bantamweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Featherweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Lightweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Middleweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Heavyweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Super-Heavyweight	Boys		3
Weightlifting	Bantamweight	Girls		1
Weightlifting	Featherweight	Girls		3
Weightlifting	Lightweight	Girls		3
Weightlifting	Middleweight	Girls		3
Weightlifting	Heavyweight	Girls		3
Weightlifting	Super-Heavyweight	Girls		3
Weightlifting	Flyweight	Men		7
Weightlifting	Bantamweight	Men		18
Weightlifting	Heavyweight I	Men		5
Weightlifting	Heavyweight II	Men		5
Weightlifting	Unlimited, One Hand	Men		3
Weightlifting	Unlimited, Two Hands	Men		4
Weightlifting	All-Around Dumbbell Contest	Men		1