Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics
# Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London consisted of six weight classes, all for men only. The bantamweight division was a newly created weight class, marking the first change to the Olympic program since 1920.

## Medal summary

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Bantamweight details | Joseph De Pietro United States | Julian Creus Great Britain | Richard Tom United States |
| Featherweight details | Mahmoud Fayad Egypt | Rodney Wilkes Trinidad and Tobago | Jafar Salmasi Iran |
| Lightweight details | Ibrahim Shams Egypt | Attia Hamouda Egypt | James Halliday Great Britain |
| Middleweight details | Frank Spellman United States | Pete George United States | Kim Sung-Jip South Korea |
| Light-heavyweight details | Stanley Stanczyk United States | Harold Sakata United States | Gösta Magnusson Sweden |
| Heavyweight details | John Davis United States | Norbert Schemansky United States | Abraham Charite Netherlands |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | United States (USA) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | Egypt (EGY) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
