Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Messuhalli
Dates	25–27 July 1952
Competitors	142 from 41 nations

The weightlifting competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. The middle-heavyweight division was a newly created weight class, moving the heavyweight class up from 82.5 kg to 90 kg. The events were held at Messuhalli.

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Ivan Udodov  Soviet Union	Mahmoud Namjoo  Iran	Ali Mirzaei  Iran
Featherweight	Rafael Chimishkyan  Soviet Union	Nikolai Saksonov  Soviet Union	Rodney Wilkes  Trinidad and Tobago
Lightweight	Tommy Kono  United States	Yevgeni Lopatin  Soviet Union	Vern Barberis  Australia
Middleweight	Pete George  United States	Gérald Gratton  Canada	Kim Sung-Jip  South Korea
Light-heavyweight	Trofim Lomakin  Soviet Union	Stanley Stanczyk  United States	Arkady Vorobyev  Soviet Union
Middle-heavyweight	Norbert Schemansky  United States	Grigory Novak  Soviet Union	Lennox Kilgour  Trinidad and Tobago
Heavyweight	John Davis  United States	James Bradford  United States	Humberto Selvetti  Argentina

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	2	0	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	3	1	7
3	Iran (IRI)	0	1	1	2
4	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
5	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	0	2	2
6	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		7	7	7	21

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-20.