World Weightlifting Championships

The World Weightlifting Championships is an international weightlifting competition, currently held annually (except for years of the Summer Olympic Games) by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The predecessor organization of the IWF was founded in 1905, but World Championship events began before its foundation. The first recognized World Championship event was held in 1891, and was won by Edward Lawrence Levy of England.

Athletes today compete in a total of 16 weight categories (8 for men and 8 for women):

• Men categories: 60 kg, 65 kg, 71 kg, 79 kg, 88 kg, 94 kg, 110 kg and +110 kg.
• Women categories: 48 kg, 53 kg, 58 kg, 63 kg, 69 kg, 77 kg, 86 kg and +86 kg.

Competitions

Men

• 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.

Women

Combined

All-time medal table

Total

All-time big (total) medal count below updated after the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships.

Big and small medals

All-time big (total) and small (snatch, clean & jerk, and press) medal count below updated after the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships.

• Names in italic are national entities that no longer exist.

Multiple medalists

The table shows those who have won at least 5 gold medals in total result. Boldface denotes active weightlifters and highest medal count among all weightlifters (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

See also

• Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics
• List of World Championships medalists in weightlifting (men)
• List of World Championships medalists in weightlifting (women)
• Youth World Weightlifting Championships
• Junior World Weightlifting Championships

Notes

References

External links

• International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)
• Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics
• Database IWRP