1965 World Weightlifting Championships

The 1965 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Tehran, Iran from October 27 to November 3, 1965. There were 85 men in action from 24 nations.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight 56 kg	Imre Földi  Hungary	360.0 kg	Shiro Ichinoseki  Japan	355.0 kg	Yoshiyuki Miyake  Japan	345.0 kg
Featherweight 60 kg	Yoshinobu Miyake  Japan	385.0 kg	Mieczysław Nowak  Poland	375.0 kg	Rudolf Kozłowski  Poland	360.0 kg
Lightweight 67.5 kg	Waldemar Baszanowski  Poland	427.5 kg	Marian Zieliński  Poland	425.0 kg	Vladimir Kaplunov  Soviet Union	412.5 kg
Middleweight 75 kg	Viktor Kurentsov  Soviet Union	437.5 kg	Werner Dittrich  East Germany	437.5 kg	Aleksandr Kurynov  Soviet Union	432.5 kg
Light heavyweight 82.5 kg	Norbert Ozimek  Poland	472.5 kg	Aleksandr Kidyayev  Soviet Union	460.0 kg	Jerzy Kaczkowski  Poland	445.0 kg
Middle heavyweight 90 kg	Louis Martin  Great Britain	487.5 kg	Vladimir Golovanov  Soviet Union	480.0 kg	Géza Tóth  Hungary	462.5 kg
Heavyweight +90 kg	Leonid Zhabotinsky  Soviet Union	552.5 kg	Gary Gubner  United States	545.0 kg	Károly Ecser  Hungary	522.5 kg

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland	2	2	2	6
	Soviet Union	2	2	2	6
3	Japan	1	1	1	3
4	Hungary	1	0	2	3
5	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
6	East Germany	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

• Results (Sport 123)
• Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine

• International Weightlifting Federation