World Weightlifting Championship

The first world weightlifting championship was held in 1891 in London ( Great Britain ). It was attended by 7 athletes from 6 countries.

In 1898, the second world championship was held in Vienna ( Austria-Hungary ), where the Russian athlete Georg Hackenschmidt took the third place in the sum of all-around events , consisting of 14 exercises. A year later, in Milan ( Italy ), Sergey Eliseev became the first Russian world champion.

In 1905, for the first time at the world championships, weight categories were introduced. Athletes were divided into three categories: up to 70 kg (light weight), up to 80 kg (average weight) and over 80 kg (heavy weight).

At the beginning of the 20th century, the world weightlifting championships were held several times during one year: three times in 1905, two times in 1910, four times in 1911 . Since 1920, personal-team world championships have been held.

In 1949 - 1989, as part of most world championships held on the European continent, European championships were also held. In 1964 , 1968 , 1972 , 1980, and 1984, the World Weightlifting Championships were held as part of the Summer Olympics. Later, during the summer Olympic Games, no world championships were held.

For men in the history of World Championships, the greatest number of medals were won by athletes of the Soviet Union - 331 gold, 208 silver and 93 bronze medals.

Content

1 World Championships
- 1.1 Men
- 1.2 Women
- 1.3 Joint
2 General medal standings
3 All-time medal table (Big and Small Table)
4 Team ranking
5 See also
6 notes
7 Source
8 References

World Championships

Men

Championship	date of	Year	Location
1st championship	March 28	1891	London , UK
2nd championship	July 31 - August 1	1898	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
3rd championship	April 4 - 5	1899	Milan , Italy
4th championship	October 1 - 3	1903	Paris , France
5th championship	April 18th	1904	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
6th championship	April 8 - 10	1905	Berlin , Germany
7th championship	June 11 - 13	1905	Duisburg , Germany
8th championship	December 16 - 30	1905	Paris , France
9th championship	March 18	1906	Lille , France
10th championship	May 19	1907	Frankfurt am Main , Germany
11th championship	December 8 - 9	1908	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
12th championship	October 3 and December 2	1909	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
13th championship	June 4 - 6	1910	Dusseldorf , Germany
14th championship	October 9 - 10	1910	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
15th championship	April 29 - 30	1911	Stuttgart , Germany
16th championship	May 13-14	1911	Berlin , Germany
17th championship	June 26th	1911	Dresden , Germany
18th championship	July 29 - 2	1911	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
19th championship	July 28 - 29	1913	Breslau , Germany
20th championship	September 4 - 8	1920	Vienna , Austria
21st championship	April 29 - 30	1922	Tallinn , Estonia
22nd championship	September 8 - 9	1923	Vienna , Austria
23rd championship	September 10 - 12	1937	Paris , France
24th championship	October 21 - 23	1938	Vienna , Germany
25th championship	October 18 - 19	1946	Paris , France
26th championship	September 26 - 27	1947	Philadelphia , USA
27th championship *	September 4 - 6	1949	Scheveningen , Netherlands
28th championship *	October 13 - 15	1950	Paris , France
29th championship *	October 26 - 28	1951	Milan , Italy
30th championship *	August 26 - 30	1953	Stockholm , Sweden
31st championship *	October 7 - 10	1954	Vienna , Austria
32nd championship *	October 12 - 16	1955	Munich , Germany
33rd championship	November 8 - 12	1957	Tehran , Iran
34th championship *	September 16 - 21	1958	Stockholm , Sweden
35th championship *	September 29 - October 4	1959	Warsaw , Poland
36th championship *	September 20 - 25	1961	Vienna , Austria
37th championship *	September 16 - 22	1962	Budapest , Hungary
38th championship *	September 7 - 13	1963	Stockholm , Sweden
39th championship **	October 11 - 18	1964	Tokyo Japan
40th championship	October 27 - November 3	1965	Tehran , Iran
41st championship *	October 15 - 21	1966	East Berlin , East Germany
42nd championship **	October 13 - 19	1968	Mexico City , Mexico
43rd championship *	September 20 - 28	1969	Warsaw , Poland
44th championship	September 12 - 20	1970	Columbus , USA
45th championship	September 18 - 26	1971	Lima , Peru
46th championship **	September 27 - 6	1972	Munich , Germany
47th championship	September 15 - 23	1973	Havana , Cuba
48th championship	September 21 - 29	1974	Manila , Philippines
49th championship *	September 15 - 23	1975	Moscow , USSR
50th championship **	July 18 - 27	1976	Montreal Canada
51st championship *	September 17 - 25	1977	Stuttgart , Germany
52nd championship	October 4 - 8	1978	Gettysburg , USA
53rd championship	November 3 - 11	1979	Thessaloniki , Greece
54th championship **	July 20 - 30	1980	Moscow , USSR
55th championship *	September 13 - 20	1981	Lille , France
56th championship *	September 18 - 26	1982	Ljubljana , Yugoslavia
57th championship *	October 22 - 31	1983	Moscow , USSR
58th championship **	July 27 - August 8	1984	Los Angeles , USA
59th championship	August 23 - September 1	1985	Sodertalje , Sweden
60th championship	November 8 - 15	1986	Sofia , Bulgaria
61st championship	September 6 - 13	1987	Ostrava , Czechoslovakia
62nd championship *	September 16 - 23	1989	Athens , Greece
63rd championship	November 10 - 18	1990	Budapest , Hungary
64th championship	September 27 - October 6	1991	Donaueschingen , Germany
65th championship	November 11 - 21	1993	Melbourne Australia
66th championship	November 17 - 27	1994	Istanbul , Turkey
67th championship	November 17 - 26	1995	Guangzhou , China

*	- world championships, in the framework of which European championships were also held
**	- World Championships held as part of the Summer Olympic Games

Women

Championship	date of	Year	Location
1st championship	October 30 - November 1	1987	Daytona Beach , USA
2nd championship	December 2 - 4	1988	Jakarta , Indonesia
3rd championship	November 24 - 26	1989	Manchester , UK
4th championship	May 26 - June 3	1990	Sarajevo , Yugoslavia
5th championship	September 27 - October 5	1991	Donaueschingen , Germany
6th championship	May 16 - 24	1992	Varna , Bulgaria
7th championship	November 11 - 21	1993	Melbourne Australia
8th championship	November 17 - 27	1994	Istanbul , Turkey
9th championship	November 17 - 26	1995	Guangzhou , China
10th championship	May 3 - 11	1996	Warsaw , Poland

Joint

Championship	date of	Year	Location
68th championship	December 6-14	1997	Chiang Mai , Thailand
69th championship	November 10 - 15	1998	Lahti , Finland
70th championship	November 21 - 28	1999	Piraeus , Greece
71st championship	November 4 - 11	2001	Antalya , Turkey
72nd championship	November 18 - 26	2002	Warsaw , Poland
73rd championship	November 14 - 22	2003	Vancouver Canada
74th championship	November 9 - 17	2005	Doha , Qatar
75th championship	September 30 - October 7	2006	Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic
76th championship	September 16 - 26	2007	Chiang Mai , Thailand
77th championship	November 17 - 27	2009	Goyang , South Korea
78th championship	September 18 - 30	2010	Antalya , Turkey
79th championship	November 5 - 13	2011	Paris , France
80th championship	October 20 - 28	2013	Wroclaw , Poland
81st championship	November 8 - 16	2014	Alma-Ata , Kazakhstan
82nd championship	November 20 - 29	2015	Houston , USA
83rd championship	November 28 - December 5	2017	Anaheim , USA
84th championship	November 1 - 10	2018	Turkmenistan , Ashgabat
85th championship	September 16 - 27	2019	Pattaya , Thailand
86th championship		2021	Lima , Peru

Overall medal standings

A place	A country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
one	USSR / Russia	185	135	64	384
2	China	158	70	38	266
3	Bulgaria	79	82	63	224
four	USA	39	49	29th	117
5	Austria	32	27	31	90
6	Germany	27	39	thirty	96
7	Poland	25	36	56	117
8	Iran	19	9	24	52
9	Turkey	fourteen	twenty	fourteen	48
10	Kazakhstan	13	5	6	24
eleven	Hungary	eleven	38	42	91
12	Chinese taipei	eleven	twenty	23	54
13	Greece	10	fifteen	eleven	36
fourteen	DPRK	10	fourteen	eighteen	42
fifteen	Japan	10	eleven	26	47
16	Egypt	9	10	12	31
17	Cuba	8	four	eleven	23
eighteen	France	7	eleven	eighteen	36
19	Ukraine	7	5	16	28
twenty	The Republic of Korea	6	fifteen	twenty	41
21	Belarus	6	5	6	17
22	Romania	5	13	10	28
23	United Kingdom	5	3	9	17
24	GDR	four	19	29th	52
25	Switzerland	four	four	2	10
26	Finland	four	2	10	16
27	Qatar	four	one	3	8
28	Thailand	3	10	fifteen	28
29th	Czechoslovakia	3	3	fifteen	21
thirty	Estonia	3	3	6	12
31	India	2	8	5	fifteen
32	Indonesia	2	6	9	17
33	Armenia	2	6	6	fourteen
34	Colombia	2	5	four	eleven
35	Azerbaijan	2	2	3	7
36	Italy	one	5	7	13
37	Australia	one	3	four	8
38	Norway	one	3	0	four
39	Canada	one	2	four	7
39	Latvia	one	2	four	7
41	Georgia	one	2	0	3
42	Sweden	one	one	6	8
43	Uzbekistan	one	one	one	3
44	Slovakia	one	0	one	2
45	Albania	one	0	0	one
45	Turkmenistan	one	0	0	one
47	Belgium	0	four	3	7
48	Denmark	0	3	0	3
49	Netherlands	0	2	0	2
fifty	Nigeria	0	one	3	four
	Spain	0	one	3	four
	Vietnam	0	one	3	four
53	Moldova	0	one	2	3
54	Argentina	0	one	one	2
54	Ecuador	0	one	one	2
56	Croatia	0	one	0	one
	Guyana	0	one	0	one
	Lebanon	0	one	0	one
59		0	0	5	5
60	Dominican Republic	0	0	3	3
61	Iraq	0	0	one	one
	Lithuania	0	0	one	one
	Macau	0	0	one	one
	Mexico	0	0	one	one
	Tunisia	0	0	one	one
	Venezuela	0	0	one	one
Total		742	742	740	2224

All-time medal table (Big and Small Table)

All-time Big (total) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk and Press) medal count below is until the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships .

A place	A country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
one	China	494	223	126	843
2	the USSR	331	208	93	632
3	Bulgaria	222	219	174	625
four	Russia	114	132	89	335
5	Poland	64	98	122	284
6	USA	54	78	71	203
7	Germany	49	57	fifty	156
8	Turkey	46	53	39	138
9	Iran	44	33	44	121
10	Hungary	39	89	107	235
eleven	DPRK	37	49	48	134
12	Chinese taipei	35	66	71	172
13	Kazakhstan	35	22	27	84
fourteen	Austria	32	27	34	93
fifteen	Greece	26	43	42	111
16	Cuba	26	twenty	36	82
17	Japan	23	47	70	140
eighteen	Belarus	23	fifteen	27	65
19	GDR	twenty	61	70	151
twenty	The Republic of Korea	19	49	64	132
21	Romania	19	25	37	81
22	Thailand	17	39	39	95
23	Ukraine	16	24	41	81
24	Egypt	fifteen	fourteen	21	fifty
25	Georgia	13	5	5	23
26	Colombia	12	twenty	23	55
27	Finland	12	eleven	22	45
28	France	eleven	21	34	66
29th	Qatar	10	5	9	24
thirty	Armenia	9	fourteen	24	37
31	India	7	26	fifteen	48
32	Azerbaijan	7	6	5	eighteen
33	Indonesia	6	fifteen	29th	fifty
34	Uzbekistan	6	6	5	17
35	Czechoslovakia	5	fourteen	40	59
36	Vietnam	5	8	10	23
37	United Kingdom	5	7	twenty	32
38	Australia	5	7	12	24
39	Norway	5	5	four	fourteen
40	Switzerland	5	5	3	13
41	Estonia	four	5	6	fifteen
42	Chile	four	one	0	5
43	Italy	3	10	fifteen	28
44	Belgium	3	8	four	fifteen
45	Spain	3	four	13	twenty
46	Sweden	3	four	10	17
47	Myanmar	3	2	8	13
48	Slovakia	3	one	four	8
49	Latvia	2	5	13	twenty
fifty	Turkmenistan	2	four	3	9
51	Albania	2	2	one	5
52	Canada	one	8	8	17
53	Nigeria	one	four	9	fourteen
54	Ecuador	one	four	8	13
55	Moldova	one	3	5	9
56	Lithuania	one	3	2	6
57	Philippines	one	one	6	8
58	Venezuela	one	one	2	four
59	Croatia	0	four	0	four
60	Dominican Republic	0	3	7	10
61	Denmark	0	3	0	3
62	Lebanon	0	2	2	four
63	Netherlands	0	2	0	2
64	New Zealand	0	2	0	2
65	Mexico	0	one	6	7
66	Argentina	0	one	one	2
67	Puerto rico	0	one	one	2
68	Nauru	0	2	0	2
69	Micronesia	0	one	0	one
70	Guyana	0	one	0	one
71	Macau	0	0	3	3
72	Tunisia	0	0	3	3
73	CIS	0	0	one	one
74	Iraq	0	0	one	one
75	Israel	0	0	one	one
76	Mongolia	0	0	one	one
Total		1966	1962	1960	5888

Source:
http://www.iwf.net/doc/statistics/WORLD_CHAMP_SENIOR_001_146.PDF - Page 80 - 82
From 2009 to 2017 medals add from wikipedia pages (IWF Results Page).

Team ranking

http://www.iwf.net/weightlifting_/history/ - Team ranking system (History)
Team ranking was started from 1949
1- 7th August 1948 FIH Congress, London: For the team classification 5-3-1 points are distributed for the 1st to the 3rd place.
2- 7th November 1957 FIHC Congress, Teheran: For the team classification, there are distributed 10-6-4-3-2-1 points for the first to the sixth place.
3- 24th May 1958 Tokyo: For the team classification 7-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to the 6th place.
4- 1973: For the team classification 12-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 10th place (only for the total).
5- 1977: For the team classification 12-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 10th place for the individual lifts and the total.
6- 12th-14th January 1984 IWF Executive Board Meeting, Herzogenaurach. 27th July, IWF Congress, Los Angeles: For the team classification 16-14-13-12-11-11-10-9- 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 15th place.
7- 1st May 1996 IWF Executive Board Meeting, Warsaw: For the team classification 28-25-23-22-21-20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9- 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 25th place.

10th and 11th December 1996, IWF Congress, Athens: Two-Year-Suspension for a first doping offence.

Year	Host	Men			Women
Year	Host	one	2	3	one	2	3
1997	Chiang Mai , Thailand	643	521	507	666	510	508
1998	Lahti , finland	566	566	428	508	Template: Flagging / Chinese Taipei 453	328
1999	Athens , Greece	581	465	437	530	Template: Flagging / Chinese Taipei 392	374
2001	Antalya , Turkey	523	476	462	455	426	423
2002	Warsaw , Poland	484	482	410	494	414	322
2003	Vancouver canada	541	509	395	474	425	418
2005	Doha , Qatar	595	545	314	555	505	447
2006	Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic	510	457	440	520	514	437
2007	Chiang Mai , Thailand	523	520	501	565	450	390
2009	Goyang south korea	623	506	395	514	429	408
2010	Antalya , Turkey	520	453	429	522	413	398
2011	Paris , France	568	542	495	510	509	443
2013	Wrocław , Poland	586	510	449	505	441	377
2014	Almaty , Kazakhstan	556	456	440	527	481	454
2015 *	Houston , united states	555	418	406	556	448	423
2017	Anaheim , United States	509	454	354	495	467	466

2015 Ranking before positive doping tests and will be changed.

Notes

After eliminating Lovchev, convicted of using illegal drugs, the champion of 2015. in weight + 105kg. became Lasha Talakhadze. T.O. in the summary table of medals won by Georgia, there are 2 gold medals of world champions among men and accordingly more medals are won in all movements.

Source

Weightlifting. Reference book (editors A. Alekseev, S. Berdyshev). - M., "Soviet Sport", 2006. ISBN 5-9718-0131-7

Links

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