# 1959 World Weightlifting Championships > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/1959_World_Weightlifting_Championships > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/1959_World_Weightlifting_Championships.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_World_Weightlifting_Championships > Source revision: 1223697778 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) International weightlifting competition 1959 Men's World Championships ← 1958 1961 → The **1959 [Men's World Weightlifting Championships](/source/World_Weightlifting_Championships)** were held in [Warsaw](/source/Warsaw), [Poland](/source/Poland) from September 29 to October 4, 1959. There were 85 men in action from 19 nations. The [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) earned the most gold medals (4) and the most overall medals (7). Host nation Poland finished second with one gold and five overall medals. Four World Records were broken: in 82.5 kg category, [Rudolf Plyukfelder](/source/Rudolf_Plyukfelder) of the Soviet Union set two new world records in the snatch (141 kg) and the total (457.5 kg), while [Ireneusz Paliński](/source/Ireneusz_Pali%C5%84ski) of Poland set a new world record in the clean & jerk (178.5 kg). Plyukfelder's total would have also won the 90 kg category. In the 90+ kg category, [Yury Vlasov](/source/Yury_Vlasov) of the Soviet Union broke the world record in the snatch (153 kg).[1] ## Medal summary Event Gold Silver Bronze Bantamweight 56 kg Vladimir Stogov Soviet Union 332.5 kg Marian Jankowski Poland 320.0 kg Imre Földi Hungary 295.0 kg Featherweight 60 kg Marian Zieliński Poland 365.0 kg Isaac Berger United States 362.5 kg Sebastiano Mannironi Italy 350.0 kg Lightweight 67.5 kg Viktor Bushuev Soviet Union 385.0 kg Akop Faradzhyan Soviet Union 370.0 kg Abdul-Wahid Aziz Iraq 362.5 kg Middleweight 75 kg Tommy Kono United States 425.0 kg Fyodor Bogdanovsky Soviet Union 417.5 kg Jan Bochenek Poland 392.5 kg Light heavyweight 82.5 kg Rudolf Plyukfelder Soviet Union 457.5 kg Ireneusz Paliński Poland 432.5 kg Jim George United States 417.5 kg Middle heavyweight 90 kg Louis Martin Great Britain 445.0 kg Arkady Vorobyov Soviet Union 445.0 kg Czesław Białas Poland 422.5 kg Heavyweight +90 kg Yury Vlasov Soviet Union 500.0 kg James Bradford United States 492.5 kg Ivan Veselinov Bulgaria 455.0 kg ## Medal table Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Soviet Union 4 3 0 7 2 Poland 1 2 2 5 3 United States 1 2 1 4 4 Great Britain 1 0 0 1 5 Bulgaria 0 0 1 1 Hungary 0 0 1 1 Iraq 0 0 1 1 Italy 0 0 1 1 Totals (8 entries) 7 7 7 21 ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Progresja Rekordów Świata MęŜczyzn, w latach 1946–1972"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120425065016/http://polska-sztanga.h2.pl/ps/rekordy-s/prog_rs_72.pdf) (PDF) (in Polish). polska.sztanga.prv.pl. Archived from [the original](http://polska-sztanga.h2.pl/ps/rekordy-s/prog_rs_72.pdf) (PDF) on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2011. - [Results](http://sports123.com/wei/index.html) (Sport 123) - [Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics](http://www.iwf.net/doc/statistics/WORLD_CHAMP_SENIOR_001_146.PDF) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110527172617/http://www.iwf.net/doc/statistics/WORLD_CHAMP_SENIOR_001_146.PDF) 2011-05-27 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) ## External links - [International Weightlifting Federation](http://www.iwf.net/) v t e World Weightlifting Championships 1891 1898 1899 1903 1904 1905 (I) 1905 (II) 1905 (III) 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 (I) 1910 (II) 1911 (I) 1911 (II) 1911 (III) 1911 (IV) 1913 1920 1922 1923 1937 1938 1946 1947 1949 1950 1951 1953 1954 1955 1957 1958 1959 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 List of medalists men women --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [1959 World Weightlifting Championships](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_World_Weightlifting_Championships) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_World_Weightlifting_Championships?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.