Weightlifting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Royal Exhibition Building
Dates	23–26 November 1956
Competitors	105 from 34 nations

The weightlifting competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only.

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Charles Vinci  United States	Vladimir Stogov  Soviet Union	Mahmoud Namjoo  Iran
Featherweight	Isaac Berger  United States	Yevgeni Minaev  Soviet Union	Marian Zieliński  Poland
Lightweight	Igor Rybak  Soviet Union	Ravil Khabutdinov  Soviet Union	Kim Chang-Hee  South Korea
Middleweight	Fyodor Bogdanovsky  Soviet Union	Pete George  United States	Ermanno Pignatti  Italy
Light-heavyweight	Tommy Kono  United States	Vasili Stepanov  Soviet Union	James George  United States
Middle-heavyweight	Arkadi Vorobyev  Soviet Union	David Sheppard  United States	Jean Debuf  France
Heavyweight	Paul Anderson  United States	Humberto Selvetti  Argentina	Alberto Pigaiani  Italy

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	2	1	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	0	7
3	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
4	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
5	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		7	7	7	21

Participating nations

•  Argentina (2)
•  Australia (7)
•  Austria (2)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Burma (3)
•  Canada (3)
•  Republic of China (3)
•  Colombia (2)
•  Czechoslovakia (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (3)
•  United Team of Germany (2)
•  Great Britain (5)
•  Guyana (2)
•  India (3)
•  Indonesia (1)
•  Iran (7)
•  Italy (4)
•  Japan (5)
•  South Korea (6)
•  Malaya (3)
•  Mexico (1)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Pakistan (3)
•  Philippines (2)
•  Poland (5)
•  Singapore (3)
•  South Africa (3)
•  Soviet Union (7)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (2)
•  United States (7)

Sources

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