Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 60 kg


The men's 60 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London took place on 9 August at the Empress Hall of the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The featherweight class, which had been the lightest from their introduction in the 1920 Summer Olympics until the 1936 Summer Olympics, was now the second-lightest, with a bantamweight class split off into a separate competition.
Each weightlifter had three attempts at each of the three lifts. The best score for each lift was summed to give a total. The weightlifter could increase the weight between attempts but could not decrease weight. If two or more weightlifters finished with the same total, the competitors' body weights were used as the tie-breaker.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World recordPress105 kg1939
World recordSnatch102.5 kg1939
World recordClean & Jerk131 kg1946
World recordTotal300 kgParis, France18–19 October 1946
Olympic recordPress92.5 kgAmsterdam, Netherlands28 July 1928
Olympic recordPress92.5 kgAmsterdam, Netherlands28 July 1928
Olympic recordSnatch90 kgAmsterdam, Netherlands28 July 1928
Olympic recordSnatch90 kgAmsterdam, Netherlands28 July 1928
Olympic recordClean & Jerk120 kgAmsterdam, Netherlands28 July 1928
Olympic recordTotal287.5 kgAmsterdam, Netherlands28 July 1928

Results

New records