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	345.0 kg	Hiroshi Fukuda  Japan	340.0 kg	Shiro Ichinoseki  Japan	330.0 kg
Featherweight 60 kg	Yoshinobu Miyake  Japan	375.0 kg	Isaac Berger  United States	367.5 kg	Imre Földi  Hungary	365.0 kg
Lightweight 67.5 kg	Marian Zieliński  Poland	417.5 kg	Waldemar Baszanowski  Poland	410.0 kg	Vladimir Kaplunov  Soviet Union	410.0 kg
Middleweight 75 kg	Aleksandr Kurynov  Soviet Union	437.5 kg	Mihály Huszka  Hungary	437.5 kg	Hans Zdražila  Czechoslovakia	422.5 kg
Light heavyweight 82.5 kg	Győző Veres  Hungary	477.5 kg	Rudolf Plyukfelder  Soviet Union	467.5 kg	Géza Tóth  Hungary	450.0 kg
Middle heavyweight 90 kg	Louis Martin  Great Britain	480.0 kg	Ireneusz Paliński  Poland	475.0 kg	Eduard Brovko  Soviet Union	470.0 kg
Heavyweight +90 kg	Yury Vlasov  Soviet Union	557.5 kg	Norbert Schemansky  United States	537.5 kg	Leonid Zhabotinsky  Soviet Union	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
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

References

• Results (Sport 123)
• Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• International Weightlifting Federation