Weightlifting at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Messuhalli
Dates	25–27 July 1952
Competitors	142 from 41 nations
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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. ^[1]

Medal summary

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

References

Sources

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

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