1966 World Weightlifting Championships

The 1966 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in East Berlin, East Germany from October 15 to October 21, 1966. There were 117 men in action from 28 nations.

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight 56 kg	Aleksey Vakhonin  Soviet Union	362.5 kg	Imre Földi  Hungary	360.0 kg	Mohammad Nassiri  Iran	350.0 kg
Featherweight 60 kg	Yoshinobu Miyake  Japan	387.5 kg	Mieczysław Nowak  Poland	382.5 kg	Yoshiyuki Miyake  Japan	370.0 kg
Lightweight 67.5 kg	Yevgeny Katsura  Soviet Union	437.5 kg	Marian Zieliński  Poland	410.0 kg	Parviz Jalayer  Iran	405.0 kg
Middleweight 75 kg	Viktor Kurentsov  Soviet Union	450.0 kg	Waldemar Baszanowski  Poland	447.5 kg	Werner Dittrich  East Germany	442.5 kg
Light heavyweight 82.5 kg	Vladimir Belyaev  Soviet Union	485.0 kg	Győző Veres  Hungary	485.0 kg	Hans Zdražila  Czechoslovakia	465.0 kg
Middle heavyweight 90 kg	Géza Tóth  Hungary	487.5 kg	Ireneusz Paliński  Poland	477.5 kg	Marek Gołąb  Poland	475.0 kg
Heavyweight +90 kg	Leonid Zhabotinsky  Soviet Union	567.5 kg	Bob Bednarski  United States	537.5 kg	Stanislav Batishchev  Soviet Union	530.0 kg

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	5	0	1	6
2	Hungary	1	2	0	3
3	Japan	1	0	1	2
4	Poland	0	4	1	5
5	United States	0	1	0	1
6	Iran	0	0	2	2
7	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	East Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		7	7	7	21

References

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

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