1954 World Weightlifting Championships

The 1954 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Vienna, Austria from October 7 to October 10, 1954. There were 100 men in action from 23 nations.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight 56 kg	Bakir Farkhutdinov  Soviet Union	315.0 kg	Mahmoud Namjoo  Iran	307.5 kg	Ali Mirzaei  Iran	302.5 kg
Featherweight 60 kg	Rafael Chimishkyan  Soviet Union	350.0 kg	Ivan Udodov  Soviet Union	350.0 kg	Nil Tun Maung  Burma	330.0 kg
Lightweight 67.5 kg	Dmitry Ivanov  Soviet Union	367.5 kg	Said Khalifa Gouda  Egypt	355.0 kg	Josef Tauchner  Austria	352.5 kg
Middleweight 75 kg	Pete George  United States	405.0 kg	Fyodor Bogdanovsky  Soviet Union	402.5 kg	Stanley Stanczyk  United States	390.0 kg
Light heavyweight 82.5 kg	Tommy Kono  United States	435.0 kg	Trofim Lomakin  Soviet Union	427.5 kg	Jean Debuf  France	405.0 kg
Middle heavyweight 90 kg	Arkady Vorobyov  Soviet Union	460.0 kg	Dave Sheppard  United States	440.0 kg	Clyde Emrich  United States	427.5 kg
Heavyweight +90 kg	Norbert Schemansky  United States	487.5 kg	James Bradford  United States	462.5 kg	Franz Hölbl  Austria	425.0 kg

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	4	3	0	7
2	United States	3	2	2	7
3	Iran	0	1	1	2
4	Egypt	0	1	0	1
5	Austria	0	0	2	2
6	Burma	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

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

• International Weightlifting Federation