1963 World Weightlifting Championships

The 1963 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Stockholm, Sweden from September 7 to September 13, 1963. There were 134 men in action from 32 nations.

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Bantamweight
56 kg
Aleksey Vakhonin
 Soviet Union (URS)
345.0 kg Hiroshi Fukuda
 Japan (JPN)
340.0 kg Shiro Ichinoseki
 Japan (JPN)
330.0 kg
Featherweight
60 kg
Yoshinobu Miyake
 Japan (JPN)
375.0 kg Isaac Berger
 United States (USA)
367.5 kg Imre Földi
 Hungary (HUN)
365.0 kg
Lightweight
67.5 kg
Marian Zieliński
 Poland (POL)
417.5 kg Waldemar Baszanowski
 Poland (POL)
410.0 kg Vladimir Kaplunov
 Soviet Union (URS)
410.0 kg
Middleweight
75 kg
Aleksandr Kurynov
 Soviet Union (URS)
437.5 kg Mihály Huszka
 Hungary (HUN)
437.5 kg Hans Zdražila
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
422.5 kg
Light heavyweight
82.5 kg
Győző Veres
 Hungary (HUN)
477.5 kg Rudolf Plyukfelder
 Soviet Union (URS)
467.5 kg Géza Tóth
 Hungary (HUN)
450.0 kg
Middle heavyweight
90 kg
Louis Martin
 Great Britain (GBR)
480.0 kg Ireneusz Paliński
 Poland (POL)
475.0 kg Eduard Brovko
 Soviet Union (URS)
470.0 kg
Heavyweight
+90 kg
Yury Vlasov
 Soviet Union (URS)
557.5 kg Norbert Schemansky
 United States (USA)
537.5 kg Leonid Zhabotinsky
 Soviet Union (URS)
527.5 kg

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Soviet Union 3 1 3 7
2  Poland 1 2 0 3
3  Hungary 1 1 2 4
4  Japan 1 1 1 3
5  Great Britain 1 0 0 1
6  United States 0 2 0 2
7  Czechoslovakia 0 0 1 1
Total 7 7 7 21

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