Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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Weightlifting at the Olympics

Weightlifting at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Empress Hall, Earl's Court
Dates	9–11 August 1948
Competitors	120 from 30 nations
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The weightlifting competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London consisted of six weight classes, all for men only. The bantamweight division was a newly created weight class, marking the first change to the Olympic program since 1920.

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight details	Joseph De Pietro  United States	Julian Creus  Great Britain	Richard Tom  United States
Featherweight details	Mahmoud Fayad  Egypt	Rodney Wilkes  Trinidad and Tobago	Jafar Salmasi  Iran
Lightweight details	Ibrahim Shams  Egypt	Attia Hamouda  Egypt	James Halliday  Great Britain
Middleweight details	Frank Spellman  United States	Pete George  United States	Kim Sung-Jip  South Korea
Light-heavyweight details	Stanley Stanczyk  United States	Harold Sakata  United States	Gösta Magnusson  Sweden
Heavyweight details	John Davis  United States	Norbert Schemansky  United States	Abraham Charite  Netherlands

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	3	1	8
2	Egypt (EGY)	2	1	0	3
3	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	1	2
4	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	1	0	1
5	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

References

1. ^ "Weightlifting at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2019.

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 December 2006.

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