1966 World Weightlifting Championships

Publicity display in East Berlin the week before the championships

The 1966 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in East Berlin, East Germany from October 15 to October 21, 1966. There were 117 men in action from 28 nations.

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Bantamweight
56 kg
Aleksey Vakhonin
 Soviet Union (URS)
362.5 kg Imre Földi
 Hungary (HUN)
360.0 kg Mohammad Nassiri
 Iran (IRI)
350.0 kg
Featherweight
60 kg
Yoshinobu Miyake
 Japan (JPN)
387.5 kg Mieczysław Nowak
 Poland (POL)
382.5 kg Yoshiyuki Miyake
 Japan (JPN)
370.0 kg
Lightweight
67.5 kg
Yevgeny Katsura
 Soviet Union (URS)
437.5 kg Marian Zieliński
 Poland (POL)
410.0 kg Parviz Jalayer
 Iran (IRI)
405.0 kg
Middleweight
75 kg
Viktor Kurentsov
 Soviet Union (URS)
450.0 kg Waldemar Baszanowski
 Poland (POL)
447.5 kg Werner Dittrich
 East Germany (GDR)
442.5 kg
Light heavyweight
82.5 kg
Vladimir Belyaev
 Soviet Union (URS)
485.0 kg Győző Veres
 Hungary (HUN)
485.0 kg Hans Zdražila
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
465.0 kg
Middle heavyweight
90 kg
Géza Tóth
 Hungary (HUN)
487.5 kg Ireneusz Paliński
 Poland (POL)
477.5 kg Marek Gołąb
 Poland (POL)
475.0 kg
Heavyweight
+90 kg
Leonid Zhabotinsky
 Soviet Union (URS)
567.5 kg Bob Bednarski
 United States (USA)
537.5 kg Stanislav Batishchev
 Soviet Union (URS)
530.0 kg

Medal table

1966 World Weightlifting Championships on an East German stamp
 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Soviet Union 5 0 1 6
2  Hungary 1 2 0 3
3  Japan 1 0 1 2
4  Poland 0 4 1 5
5  United States 0 1 0 1
6  Iran 0 0 2 2
7  Czechoslovakia 0 0 1 1
 East Germany 0 0 1 1
Total 7 7 7 21

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