Weightlifting at the 1966 Asian Games

Weightlifting
at the 1966 Asian Games
Weightlifting ; at the 1966 Asian Games
Venue	Bangkok Cultural Hall
Dates	12–18 December 1966
	← 1958 1970 →

Weightlifting was contested from 12 December to 18 December 1966 at the 1966 Asian Games in Cultural Hall, Bangkok, Thailand.

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The competition included only men's events for eight different weight categories. Iran finished 1st at the medal table by winning three gold medals.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (52 kg)	Chaiya Sukchinda Thailand	Tetsuhide Sasaki Japan	Mohammad Reza Nasehi Iran
Bantamweight (56 kg)	Mohammad Nassiri Iran	Chua Phung Kim Singapore	Yu In-ho South Korea
Featherweight (60 kg)	Yoshinobu Miyake Japan	Ahn Jong-chul South Korea	Chang Ming-chung Republic of China
Lightweight (67.5 kg)	Parviz Jalayer Iran	Takeo Kimura Japan	Won Shin-hee South Korea
Middleweight (75 kg)	Masushi Ouchi Japan	Lee Chun-sik South Korea	Mohammad Ami-Tehrani Iran
Light heavyweight (82.5 kg)	Lee Jong-sup South Korea	Hideki Fujimoto Japan	Lee Yi-hsiung Republic of China
Middle heavyweight (90 kg)	Lee Hyung-woo South Korea	Masafumi Tsugioka Japan	Esmaeil Doroudian Iran
Heavyweight (+90 kg)	Manouchehr Boroumand Iran	Hwang Ho-dong South Korea	Reza Esteki Iran

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iran (IRN)	3	0	4	7
2	Japan (JPN)	2	4	0	6
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	3	2	7
4	Thailand (THA)	1	0	0	1
5	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	0	1
6	Republic of China (ROC)	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		8	8	8	24

Medalists