title: 1963 World Weightlifting Championships
text: # 1963 World Weightlifting Championships
  
  The 1963 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Stockholm, Sweden from September 7 to September 13, 1963. There were 134 men in action from 32 nations.
  
  ## Medal summary
  
  | Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Bantamweight 56 kg | Aleksey Vakhonin Soviet Union | 345.0 kg | Hiroshi Fukuda Japan | 340.0 kg | Shiro Ichinoseki Japan | 330.0 kg |
  | Featherweight 60 kg | Yoshinobu Miyake Japan | 375.0 kg | Isaac Berger United States | 367.5 kg | Imre Földi Hungary | 365.0 kg |
  | Lightweight 67.5 kg | Marian Zieliński Poland | 417.5 kg | Waldemar Baszanowski Poland | 410.0 kg | Vladimir Kaplunov Soviet Union | 410.0 kg |
  | Middleweight 75 kg | Aleksandr Kurynov Soviet Union | 437.5 kg | Mihály Huszka Hungary | 437.5 kg | Hans Zdražila Czechoslovakia | 422.5 kg |
  | Light heavyweight 82.5 kg | Győző Veres Hungary | 477.5 kg | Rudolf Plyukfelder Soviet Union | 467.5 kg | Géza Tóth Hungary | 450.0 kg |
  | Middle heavyweight 90 kg | Louis Martin Great Britain | 480.0 kg | Ireneusz Paliński Poland | 475.0 kg | Eduard Brovko Soviet Union | 470.0 kg |
  | Heavyweight +90 kg | Yury Vlasov Soviet Union | 557.5 kg | Norbert Schemansky United States | 537.5 kg | Leonid Zhabotinsky Soviet Union | 527.5 kg |
  
  ## Medal table
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
  | 2 | Poland | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
  | 3 | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
  | 4 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
  | 5 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 6 | United States | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
  | 7 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
  