Weightlifting at the 1958 Asian Games

Weightlifting was contested from May 25 to May 28 at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo Main Stadium Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (52 kg)	Lee Jang-woo South Korea (KOR)	Esmaeil Elmkhah Iran (IRI)	Kasamazu Hagio Japan (JPN)
Bantamweight (56 kg)	Shigeo Kogure Japan (JPN)	Mahmoud Namjoo Iran (IRI)	Alberto Nogar Philippines (PHI)
Featherweight (60 kg)	Lee Tak-young South Korea (KOR)	Ali Safa-Sonboli Iran (IRI)	Fumio Takeda Japan (JPN)
Lightweight (67.5 kg)	Tan Howe Liang Singapore (SIN)	Kenji Onuma Japan (JPN)	Henrik Tamraz Iran (IRI)
Middleweight (75 kg)	Ko Bu-beng Republic of China (ROC)	Ebrahim Peiravi Iran (IRI)	Yoshio Hara Japan (JPN)
Light heavyweight (82.5 kg)	Jalal Mansouri Iran (IRI)	Minoru Kubota Japan (JPN)	Park Dong-chul South Korea (KOR)
Middle heavyweight (90 kg)	Hassan Rahnavardi Iran (IRI)	Hwang Ho-dong South Korea (KOR)	Tan Kim Bee Malaya (MAL)
Heavyweight (+90 kg)	Firouz Pojhan Iran (IRI)	Lee Young-wan South Korea (KOR)	Gisaburo Seyama Japan (JPN)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iran (IRI)	3	4	1	8
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	1	5
3	Japan (JPN)	1	2	4	7
4	Republic of China (ROC)	1	0	0	1
4	Singapore (SIN)	1	0	0	1
6	Malaya (MAL)	0	0	1	1
6	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

References

Results

Events at the 1958 Asian Games (Tokyo)

Athletics Badminton (demonstration) Basketball Boxing Cycling Diving Field hockey Football Judo (demonstration) Shooting Swimming Table tennis Tennis Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

Weightlifting at the Asian Games

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