Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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

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

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg	Charles Vinci United States	Yoshinobu Miyake Japan	Esmaeil Elmkhah Iran
60 kg	Yevgeny Minayev Soviet Union	Isaac Berger United States	Sebastiano Mannironi Italy
67.5 kg	Viktor Bushuev Soviet Union	Tan Howe Liang Singapore	Abdul-Wahid Aziz Iraq
75 kg	Aleksandr Kurynov Soviet Union	Tommy Kono United States	Győző Veres Hungary
82.5 kg	Ireneusz Paliński Poland	Jim George United States	Jan Bochenek Poland
90 kg	Arkadi Vorobyev Soviet Union	Trofim Lomakin Soviet Union	Louis Martin Great Britain
+90 kg	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 nations)		7	7	7	21

^ "Weightlifting at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 December 2006.