World Weightlifting Championships
international weightlifting competition
The World Weightlifting Championships is an event organised by International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
World Weightlifting Championships
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- The weightlifting tournaments held during Summer Olympics in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 are counted as World Weightlifting Championships of the corresponding year.
Year | Edition | Venue | Events | Men | Women | |||
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M | W | Athletes | Countries | Athletes | Countries | |||
1891 | 1 | - | London, United Kingdom | 1 | 7 | 6 | - | - |
1898 | 2 | - | Vienna, Austria-Hungary | 1 | 11 | 3 | - | - |
1899 | 3 | - | Milan, Italy | 1 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
1903 | 4 | - | Paris, France | 1 | 18 | 5 | - | - |
1904 | 5 | - | Vienna, Austria-Hungary | 1 | 13 | 4 | - | - |
1905 | 6 | - | Berlin, Germany | 3 | 41 | 4 | - | - |
1905 | 7 | - | Duisburg, Germany | 1 | 7 | 2 | - | - |
1905 | 8 | - | Paris, France | 3 | 16 | 1 | - | - |
1906 | 9 | - | Lille, France | 4 | 33 | 4 | - | - |
1907 | 10 | - | Frankfurt, Germany | 3 | 23 | 3 | - | - |
1908 | 11 | - | Vienna, Austria-Hungary | 2 | 23 | 2 | - | - |
1909 | 12 | - | Vienna, Austria-Hungary | 2 | 23 | 3 | - | - |
1910 | 13 | - | Düsseldorf, Germany | 4 | 57 | 5 | - | - |
1910 | 14 | - | Vienna, Austria-Hungary | 2 | 15 | 2 | - | - |
1911 | 15 | - | Stuttgart, Germany | 4 | 36 | 3 | - | - |
1911 | 16 | - | Berlin, Germany | 4 | 27 | 2 | - | - |
1911 | 17 | - | Dresden, Germany | 4 | 21 | 3 | - | - |
1911 | 18 | - | Vienna, Austria-Hungary | 4 | 32 | 3 | - | - |
1913 | 19 | - | Breslau, Germany | 4 | 40 | 4 | - | - |
1920 | 20 | - | Vienna, Austria | 5 | 74 | 4 | - | - |
1922 | 21 | - | Tallinn, Estonia | 5 | 33 | 4 | - | - |
1923 | 22 | - | Vienna, Austria | 5 | 76 | 7 | - | - |
1937 | 23 | - | Paris, France | 5 | 50 | 10 | - | - |
1938 | 24 | - | Vienna, Germany | 5 | 38 | 11 | - | - |
1946 | 25 | - | Paris, France | 5 | 79 | 13 | - | - |
1947 | 26 | - | Philadelphia, United States | 6 | 39 | 12 | - | - |
1949 | 27 | - | Scheveningen, Netherlands | 6 | 38 | 13 | - | - |
1950 | 28 | - | Paris, France | 6 | 56 | 17 | - | - |
1951 | 29 | - | Milan, Italy | 7 | 62 | 14 | - | - |
1953 | 30 | - | Stockholm, Sweden | 7 | 70 | 19 | - | - |
1954 | 31 | - | Vienna, Austria | 7 | 100 | 23 | - | - |
1955 | 32 | - | Munich, West Germany | 7 | 108 | 25 | - | - |
1957 | 33 | - | Tehran, Iran | 7 | 76 | 21 | - | - |
1958 | 34 | - | Stockholm, Sweden | 7 | 96 | 27 | - | - |
1959 | 35 | - | Warsaw, Poland | 7 | 85 | 19 | - | - |
1961 | 36 | - | Vienna, Austria | 7 | 120 | 33 | - | - |
1962 | 37 | - | Budapest, Hungary | 7 | 113 | 27 | - | - |
1963 | 38 | - | Stockholm, Sweden | 7 | 134 | 32 | - | - |
1964 | 39 | - | Tokyo, Japan | 7 | 149 | 42 | - | - |
1965 | 40 | - | Tehran, Iran | 7 | 85 | 24 | - | - |
1966 | 41 | - | East Berlin, East Germany | 7 | 117 | 28 | - | - |
1968 | 42 | - | Mexico City, Mexico | 7 | 160 | 55 | - | - |
1969 | 43 | - | Warsaw, Poland | 36 | 166 | 37 | - | - |
1970 | 44 | - | Columbus, United States | 36 | 129 | 28 | - | - |
1971 | 45 | - | Lima, Peru | 36 | 144 | 30 | - | - |
1972 | 46 | - | Munich, West Germany | 36 | 188 | 54 | - | - |
1973 | 47 | - | Havana, Cuba | 27 | 189 | 39 | - | - |
1974 | 48 | - | Manila, Philippines | 27 | 143 | 32 | - | - |
1975 | 49 | - | Moscow, Soviet Union | 27 | 169 | 33 | - | - |
1976 | 50 | - | Montreal, Canada | 27 | 173 | 46 | - | - |
1977 | 51 | - | Stuttgart, West Germany | 30 | 186 | 44 | - | - |
1978 | 52 | - | Gettysburg, United States | 30 | 185 | 35 | - | - |
1979 | 53 | - | Thessaloniki, Greece | 30 | 189 | 39 | - | - |
1980 | 54 | - | Moscow, Soviet Union | 30 | 173 | 40 | - | - |
1981 | 55 | - | Lille, France | 30 | 194 | 35 | - | - |
1982 | 56 | - | Ljubljana, Yugoslavia | 30 | 205 | 38 | - | - |
1983 | 57 | - | Moscow, Soviet Union | 30 | 187 | 32 | - | - |
1984 | 58 | - | Los Angeles, United States | 30 | 187 | 48 | - | - |
1985 | 59 | - | Södertälje, Sweden | 30 | 195 | 38 | - | - |
1986 | 60 | - | Sofia, Bulgaria | 30 | 193 | 41 | - | - |
1987 | 61 | - | Ostrava, Czechoslovakia | 30 | 168 | 29 | - | - |
1987 | - | 1 | Daytona Beach, United States | 27 | - | - | 100 | 22 |
1988 | - | 2 | Jakarta, Indonesia | 27 | - | - | 103 | 23 |
1989 | 62 | - | Athens, Greece | 30 | 220 | 37 | - | - |
1989 | - | 3 | Manchester, United Kingdom | 27 | - | - | 133 | 25 |
1990 | 63 | - | Budapest, Hungary | 30 | 182 | 38 | - | - |
1990 | - | 4 | Sarajevo, Yugoslavia | 27 | - | - | 109 | 25 |
1991 | 64 | 5 | Donaueschingen, Germany | 57 | 200 | 40 | 108 | 24 |
1992 | - | 6 | Varna, Bulgaria | 27 | - | - | 110 | 25 |
1993 | 65 | 7 | Melbourne, Australia | 57 | 195 | 57 | 94 | 25 |
1994 | 66 | 8 | Istanbul, Turkey | 57 | 242 | 52 | 105 | 30 |
1995 | 67 | 9 | Guangzhou, China | 57 | 345 | 63 | 93 | 26 |
1996 | - | 10 | Warsaw, Poland | 27 | - | - | 102 | 24 |
1997 | 68 | 11 | Chiang Mai, Thailand | 57 | 189 | 51 | 143 | 39 |
1998 | 69 | 12 | Lahti, Finland | 45 | 210 | 53 | 122 | 35 |
1999 | 70 | 13 | Piraeus, Greece | 45 | 395 | 79 | 231 | 51 |
2001 | 71 | 14 | Antalya, Turkey | 45 | 153 | 47 | 114 | 34 |
2002 | 72 | 15 | Warsaw, Poland | 45 | 170 | 47 | 115 | 37 |
2003 | 73 | 16 | Vancouver, Canada | 45 | 297 | 59 | 208 | 47 |
2005 | 74 | 17 | Doha, Qatar | 45 | 169 | 58 | 112 | 42 |
2006 | 75 | 18 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 45 | 298 | 58 | 186 | 39 |
2007 | 76 | 19 | Chiang Mai, Thailand | 45 | 355 | 70 | 225 | 53 |
2009 | 77 | 20 | Goyang, South Korea | 45 | 196 | 57 | 133 | 38 |
2010 | 78 | 21 | Antalya, Turkey | 45 | 312 | 63 | 203 | 50 |
2011 | 79 | 22 | Paris, France | 45 | 307 | 75 | 212 | 61 |
2013 | 80 | 23 | Wrocław, Poland | 45 | 168 | 49 | 124 | 37 |
2014 | 81 | 24 | Almaty, Kazakhstan | 45 | 307 | 62 | 219 | 51 |
2015 | 82 | 25 | Houston, United States | 45 | 324 | 76 | 261 | 72 |
2017 | 83 | 26 | Anaheim, United States | 48 | 176 | 54 | 139 | 44 |
2018 | 84 | 27 | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 60 | ||||
2019 | 85 | 28 | Pattaya, Thailand | 60 |
Team ranking
change- http://www.iwf.net/weightlifting_/history/ - Team ranking system (History)
- Team ranking was started from 1949
- 1- 7th August 1948 FIH Congress, London : For the team classification 5-3-1 points are distributed for the 1st to the 3rd place.
- 2- 7th November 1957 FIHC Congress, Teheran : For the team classification, there are distributed 10-6-4-3-2-1 points for the first to the sixth place.
- 3- 24th May 1958 Tokyo : For the team classification 7-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to the 6th place.
- 4- 1973 : For the team classification 12-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 10th place (only for the total).
- 5- 1977 : For the team classification 12-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 10th place for the individual lifts and the total.
- 6- 12th–14th January 1984 IWF Executive Board Meeting, Herzogenaurach. 27th July, IWF Congress, Los Angeles: For the team classification 16-14-13-12-11-10-9- 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 15th place.
- 7- 1st May 1996 IWF Executive Board Meeting, Warsaw : For the team classification 28-25-23-22-21-20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 25th place.
- 10th and 11th December 1996, IWF Congress, Athens: Two-Year-Suspension for a first doping offence.
- 2015 Ranking before positive doping tests and will be changed.