| Weight | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Up to 56 kg | Alexey Vakhonin ( USSR ) | 345.0 kg | Hiroshi Fukuda ( Japan ) | 340.0 kg | Shiro Itinosaki ( Japan ) | 330.0 kg |
| Up to 60 kg | Yoshinobu Miyake ( Japan ) | 375.0 kg | Isaac Berger ( USA ) | 367.5 kg | Imre Foldi ( Hungary ) | 365.0 kg |
| Up to 67.5 kg | Marjan ZieliΕski ( Poland ) | 417.5 kg | Waldemar Bashanovsky ( Poland ) | 410.0 kg | Vladimir Kaplunov ( USSR ) | 410.0 kg |
| Up to 75 kg | Alexander Kurynov ( USSR ) | 437.5 kg | Mihai Husk ( Hungary ) | 437.5 kg | Hans Zdrazhila ( Czechoslovakia ) | 422.5 kg |
| Up to 82.5 kg | GyΓΆzΡ Veres ( Hungary ) | 477.5 kg | Rudolf Plukfelder ( USSR ) | 467.5 kg | Geza TΓ³th ( Hungary ) | 450.0 kg |
| Up to 90 kg | Louis Martin ( United Kingdom ) | 480.0 kg | Ireneusz Palinski ( Poland ) | 475.0 kg | Edward Brovko ( USSR ) | 470.0 kg |
| Over 90 kg | Yuri Vlasov ( USSR ) | 557.5 kg | Norbert Shemanski ( USA ) | 537.5 kg | Leonid Zhabotinsky ( USSR ) | 527.5 kg |