Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. The competition was held from 17 to 21 October 1968 at the Teatro de los Insurgentes.^[1]

Weightlifting at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Teatro de los Insurgentes
Dates	17–21 October 1968
Competitors	160 from 55 nations
← 1964 1972 →

It also counted as 1968 World Weightlifting Championships. The Soviet Union finished first in the medal table after winning three gold medals. Japan, Iran, Finland and Poland won the remaining gold medals.

Participating nations

•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (2)
•  Austria (1)
•  Barbados (1)
•  Belgium (2)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Bulgaria (5)
•  Canada (4)
•  Costa Rica (3)
•  Cuba (5)
•  Czechoslovakia (4)
•  Dominican Republic (2)
•  East Germany (3)
•  Egypt (3)
•  El Salvador (2)
•  Finland (5)
•  France (5)
•  Great Britain (7)
•  Greece (2)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Guyana (1)
•  Honduras (1)
•  Hungary (7)
•  India (1)
•  Indonesia (3)
•  Iran (4)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Iceland (1)
•  Italy (3)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Japan (7)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Malaysia (2)
•  Mexico (3)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  Netherlands Antilles (2)
•  New Zealand (2)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  Norway (1)
•  Panama (2)
•  Peru (1)
•  Philippines (3)
•  Poland (7)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Puerto Rico (6)
•  Singapore (2)
•  South Korea (6)
•  Soviet Union (7)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Taiwan (5)
•  Thailand (2)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•  United States (5)
•  Virgin Islands (1)
•  West Germany (5)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	3	0	6
2	Japan (JPN)	1	1	1	3
3	Iran (IRI)	1	1	0	2
4	Poland (POL)	1	0	4	5
5	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
6	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
8	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight (56 kg) details	Mohammad Nassiri  Iran	367.5 kg	Imre Földi  Hungary	367.5 kg	Henryk Trębicki  Poland	357.5 kg
Featherweight (60 kg) details	Yoshinobu Miyake  Japan	392.5 kg	Dito Shanidze  Soviet Union	387.5 kg	Yoshiyuki Miyake  Japan	385.0 kg
Lightweight (67.5 kg) details	Waldemar Baszanowski  Poland	437.5 kg	Parviz Jalayer  Iran	422.5 kg	Marian Zieliński  Poland	420.0 kg
Middleweight (75 kg) details	Viktor Kurentsov  Soviet Union	475.0 kg	Masushi Ouchi  Japan	455.0 kg	Károly Bakos  Hungary	440.0 kg
Light heavyweight (82.5 kg) details	Boris Selitsky  Soviet Union	485.0 kg	Vladimir Belyaev  Soviet Union	485.0 kg	Norbert Ozimek  Poland	472.5 kg
Middle heavyweight (90 kg) details	Kaarlo Kangasniemi  Finland	517.5 kg	Jaan Talts  Soviet Union	507.5 kg	Marek Gołąb  Poland	495.0 kg
Heavyweight (+90 kg) details	Leonid Zhabotinsky  Soviet Union	572.5 kg	Serge Reding  Belgium	555.0 kg	Joseph Dube  United States	555.0 kg

See also

• World Weightlifting Championships