Olympic gold medalists in weightlifting

• Alexander Kourlovitch

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1988, 1992 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Alexander Kurynov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1960 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Alexander Voronin

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1976 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 52kg
• Alexei Vakhonin

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1964 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 56kg
• Alfred Neuland

  Estonian athlete.

  • 1920 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Anatoli Khrapatyi

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1988 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 90kg
• Andon Nikolov

  Bulgarian athlete.

  • 1972 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 90kg
• Anthony Terlazzo

  American athlete.

  • 1936 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Arkadil Vorobiev

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1956, 1960 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 90kg
• Asen Zlatev

  Bulgarian athlete.

  • 1980 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Boris Selitsky

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1968 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Borislav Guidikov

  Bulgarian athlete.

  • 1988 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Carlo Galimberti

  Italian athlete.

  • 1924 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Charles Rigoulot

  French athlete.

  • 1924 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Charles Vinci

  American athlete.

  • 1956, 1960 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 56kg
• Chen Weiqiang

  Chinese athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Daniel Nuñez

  Cuban athlete.

  • 1980 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 56kg
• David Rigert

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1976 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 90kg
• Dinko Lukim

  Australian athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Edmond Décottignies

  French athlete.

  • 1924 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Ernest Cadine

  French athlete.

  • 1920 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Evguenni Minaev

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1960 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Fedor Bogdanovskii

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1956 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Fedor Kassapu

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1992 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Filippo Bottino

  Italian athlete.

  • 1920 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Frank Spellman

  American athlete.

  • 1948 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Franz Andrysek

  Austrian athlete.

  • 1928 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Giuseppe Tonani

  Italian athlete.

  • 1924 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Hans Haas

  Austrian athlete.

  • 1928 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Hans Zdrazila

  Czechoslovakian athlete.

  • 1964 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Henri Gance

  French athlete.

  • 1920 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Ibrahim Shams

  Egyptian athlete.

  • 1948 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Igor Rybak

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1956 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Imre Foldi

  Hungarian athlete.

  • 1972 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 56kg
• Ireneusz Palinski

  Polish athlete.

  • 1960 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Isaac Berger

  American athlete.

  • 1956 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Israel Militossian

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1992 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Israil Aarsamakov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1988 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Ivan Ivanov

  Bulgarian athlete.

  • 1992 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 52kg
• Ivan Udodov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1952 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 56kg
• Jaan Talts

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1972 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110kg
• Jaroslav Skobla

  Czechoslovakian athlete.

  • 1932 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Joachim Kunz

  German athlete.

  • 1988 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• John Davis

  American athlete.

  • 1948, 1952 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Josef Strassberger

  German athlete.

  • 1928 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Josef Manger

  German athlete.

  • 1936 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Joseph De Pietro

  American athlete.

  • 1948 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 56kg
• Kaarlo Kangasniemi

  Finnish athlete.

  • 1968 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 90kg
• Kakhi Kakhiachvili

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1992 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 90kg
• Kanybek Osmonaliev

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1980 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 52kg
• Karl-Heinz Radschinsky

  German athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Leif Jenssen

  Norwegian athlete.

  • 1972 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Leonid Zhabotinsky

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1964-68 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Leonid Taranenko

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1980 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110kg
• Louis Hostin

  French athlete.

  • 1932, 1936 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Mahmoud Fayad

  Egyptian athlete.

  • 1948 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Mohamed Ahmed Mesbah

  Egyptian athlete.

  • 1936 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Mohammed Nassiri

  Iranian athlete.

  • 1968 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 56kg
• Mukharbi Kirzhinov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1972 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Naim Suleymanoglu

  Turkish athlete.

  • 1988, 1992 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg; 1996 gold medal winner for 64kg
• Nicu Vlad

  Romanian athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 90kg
• Norair Nurikian

  Bulgarian athlete.

  • 1972 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg; 1976 gold medal winner for 56kg
• Nikolai Kolesnikov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1976 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Norbert Schemansky

  American athlete.

  • 1952 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 90kg
• Norberto Oberburger

  Italian athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110kg
• Otakar Zaremba

  Czechoslovakian athlete.

  • 1980 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 100kg
• Paul Anderson

  American athlete.

  • 1956 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Pavel Kouznetsov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1988 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 100kg
• Peter George

  American athlete.

  • 1952 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Petre Becheru

  Romanian athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Pierino Gabetti

  Italian athlete.

  • 1924 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Piotr Korol

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1976 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Pyrros Dimas

  Greek athlete.

  • 1992, 1996 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 83kg
• Rafael Tshimishkjan

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1952 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Raymond Suvigny

  French athlete.

  • 1932 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Roger François

  French athlete.

  • 1928 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Rolf Milser

  German athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 100kg
• Ronny Weller

  German athlete.

  • 1992 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110kg
• Rudolf Jsmayr

  German athlete.

  • 1932 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Rudolf Plyukfeider

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1964 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Sevdalin Marinov

  Bulgarian athlete.

  • 1988 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 52kg
• Stanley Stanczyk

  American athlete.

  • 1948 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Sultan Rakhmanov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1980 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Tommy Kono

  American athlete.

  • 1952 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg; 1956 gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Trofim Lomakin

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1952 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Vasili Alexeev

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1972, 1976 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Viktor Bushuev

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1960 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Viktor Kurentsov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1968 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Viktor Mazin

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1980 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Viktor Tregoubov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1992 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 100kg
• Vladimir Golovanov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1964 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 90kg
• Waldemar Baszanowski

  Polish athlete.

  • 1964, 1968 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Yanko Rusev

  Bulgarian athlete.

  • 1980 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Yao Jingyuan

  Chinese athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 67.5kg
• Yordan Bikov

  Bulgarian athlete.

  • 1972 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Yordan Mitkov

  Bulgarian athlete.

  • 1976 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 75kg
• Yoshinobu Miyake

  Japanese athlete.

  • 1964, 1968 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Yuri Vlasov

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1960 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110+kg
• Yuri Zaitsev

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1976 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110kg
• Yuri Vardanian

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1980 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg
• Yuri Zakarevitch

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1988 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 110kg
• Zeng Guoqiang

  Chinese athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 52kg
• Zygmunt Smalcerz

  Polish athlete.

  • 1972 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 52kg
• François Dehaes

  Belgian athlete.

  • 1920 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 60kg
• Aleksey Petrov

  Russian athlete.

  • 1996 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 91kg
• Andrey Chemerkin

  Russian athlete.

  • 1996 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for over 108kg