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Weightlifting

Class
Bantamweight (-123 ¹/2 lb)	Joseph Di Pietro, USA	307.5
	Julian Creus, GBR	297.5
	Richard Tom, USA	295.0
Featherweight (-132 ¹/4 lb)	Mahmoud Fayad, EGY	332.5
	Rodney Wilkes, TRI	317.5
	Jaffar Salmassi, IRN	312.5
Lightweight (-148 ³/4 lb)	Ibrahim Shams, EGY	360.0
	Attia Hamouda, EGY	360.0
	James Halliday, GBR	340.0
Middleweight (-165 ¹/2 lb)	Frank Spellman, USA	390.0
	Peter George, USA	382.5
	Sung-Jip Kim, KOR	380.0
Light-Heavyweight (-182 lb)	Stanley Stanczyk, USA	417.5
	Harold Sakata, USA	380.0
	Gösta Magnusson, SWE	375.0
Heavyweight (+182 lb)	John Davis, USA	452.5
	Norbert Schemansky, USA	425.0
	Abraham Charité, HOL	412.5

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