Weightlifting at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Empress Hall, Earl's Court
Dates	9–11 August 1948
Competitors	120 from 30 nations
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The weightlifting competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London consisted of six weight classes, all for men only. The bantamweight division was a newly created weight class, marking the first change to the Olympic program since 1920. ^[1]

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight details	Joseph De Pietro   United States	Julian Creus   Great Britain	Richard Tom   United States
Featherweight details	Mahmoud Fayad   Egypt	Rodney Wilkes   Trinidad and Tobago	Jafar Salmasi   Iran
Lightweight details	Ibrahim Shams   Egypt	Attia Hamouda   Egypt	James Halliday   Great Britain
Middleweight details	Frank Spellman   United States	Pete George   United States	Kim Sung-Jip   South Korea
Light-heavyweight details	Stanley Stanczyk   United States	Harold Sakata   United States	Gösta Magnusson   Sweden
Heavyweight details	John Davis   United States	Norbert Schemansky   United States	Abraham Charite   Netherlands

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	3	1	8
2	Egypt (EGY)	2	1	0	3
3	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	1	2
4	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	1	0	1
5	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

References

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 December 2006.

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