1947 World Weightlifting Championships

The 1947 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Philadelphia, United States from September 26 to September 27, 1947. There were 39 men in action from 12 nations.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight 56 kg	Joseph DePietro  United States	300.0 kg	Richard Tom  United States	287.5 kg	Rosaire Smith  Canada	277.5 kg
Featherweight 60 kg	Robert Higgins  United States	310.0 kg	Nam Su-il  South Korea	307.5 kg	Emerick Ishikawa  United States	302.5 kg
Lightweight 67.5 kg	Pete George  United States	352.5 kg	John Stuart  Canada	350.0 kg	George Espeut  Great Britain	342.5 kg
Middleweight 75 kg	Stanley Stanczyk  United States	405.0 kg	Frank Spellman  United States	375.0 kg	Kim Sung-jip  South Korea	352.5 kg
Light heavyweight 82.5 kg	John Terpak  United States	387.5 kg	Keevil Daly  Guiana	370.0 kg	Juhani Vellamo  Finland	367.5 kg
Heavyweight +82.5 kg	John Davis  United States	455.0 kg	Norbert Schemansky  United States	412.5 kg	Václav Bečvář  Czechoslovakia	360.0 kg

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	6	3	1	10
2	Canada	0	1	1	2
	South Korea	0	1	1	2
4	Guiana	0	1	0	1
5	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		6	6	6	18

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

• International Weightlifting Federation