Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Weightlifting; at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Palazzetto dello Sport
Dates	7–10 September 1960
Competitors	172 from 53 nations
	← 1956 1964 →

The weightlifting competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only.^[1]

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Charles Vinci United States	Yoshinobu Miyake Japan	Esmaeil Elmkhah Iran
60 kg details	Yevgeny Minayev Soviet Union	Isaac Berger United States	Sebastiano Mannironi Italy
67.5 kg details	Viktor Bushuev Soviet Union	Tan Howe Liang Singapore	Abdul-Wahid Aziz Iraq
75 kg details	Aleksandr Kurynov Soviet Union	Tommy Kono United States	Győző Veres Hungary
82.5 kg details	Ireneusz Paliński Poland	Jim George United States	Jan Bochenek Poland
90 kg details	Arkadi Vorobyev Soviet Union	Trofim Lomakin Soviet Union	Louis Martin Great Britain
+90 kg details	Yury Vlasov Soviet Union	James Bradford United States	Norbert Schemansky United States


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	1	0	6
2	United States (USA)	1	4	1	6
3	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
4	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
4	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	0	1
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		7	7	7	21