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By definition, Olympic weightlifting is not a team sport. The essense of the sport is a competition between the strong individuals that lift weights on the platform.

With all these said, the team aspect of Olympic weightlifting is often underestimated. In many ways, it is also a sport of strong individuals representing their teams and nations on the platform. Besides strictly statistical breakdown of the results, national representation indicates various lifting and training philosophies and styles used by Olympic weightlifters thoughout the decades of its development.

This section of the Lift Up presents a historical overview of Olympic weightlifting as a competition between various national teams and dynasties of the 20th century. The overall standings by nations are presented below. You may also use the search tools to generate listings by decades and specific nation.

The summary tables below display the overall data for:

:: Summer Olympics and World Championships Medals

The following table shows the ranking of the national teams by total number of medals won at the official IWF World Championships and Olympics won in 1920-2000.
  Team    Gold  Silver  Bronze  Total
1 SOVIET UNION 170 99 35 304
2 BULGARIA 74 62 39 175
3 UNITED STATES 51 51 25 127
4 POLAND 22 37 58 117
5 HUNGARY 9 31 35 75
6 CHINA 14 22 24 60
7 EAST GERMANY 5 20 30 55
8 GERMANY 13 19 15 47
9 IRAN 12 7 26 45
10 JAPAN 11 7 21 39
11 EGYPT 12 12 11 35
12 GREECE 13 13 5 31
13 FRANCE 10 5 12 27
14 AUSTRIA 7 11 9 27
15 CZECHOSLOVAKIA 4 5 18 27
16 TURKEY 14 8 3 25
17 RUSSIA 11 6 7 24
18 ITALY 5 8 10 23
19 ROMANIA 4 11 8 23
20 CUBA 9 3 9 21
21 ESTONIA 4 6 9 19
22 SOUTH KOREA 2 4 11 17
23 GREAT BRITAIN 4 4 7 15
24 WEST GERMANY 3 7 5 15
25 NORTH KOREA 1 4 9 14
26 UKRAINE 6 1 6 13
27 FINLAND 2 1 9 12
28 SWEDEN 1 1 9 11
29 UNIFIED TEAM (CIS) 5 4 1 10
30 BELGIUM 1 5 2 8
31 AUSTRALIA 1 3 4 8
32 SWITZERLAND 1 2 3 6
33 ARMENIA 0 4 2 6
34 CANADA 1 3 1 5
35 LATVIA 0 2 3 5
36 NORWAY 1 3 0 4
37 DENMARK 0 4 0 4
38 ARGENTINA 0 2 2 4
39 KAZAKHSTAN 0 1 3 4
40 QATAR 1 1 1 3
41 BELARUS 1 0 2 3
42 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 0 1 2 3
43 NETHERLANDS 0 0 3 3
44 TAIWAN 0 0 3 3
45 GEORGIA 0 1 1 2
46 IRAQ 0 0 2 2
47 MYANMAR 0 0 2 2
48 CROATIA 1 0 0 1
49 TURKMENISTAN 1 0 0 1
50 SLOVAKIA 1 0 0 1
51 LUXEMBOURG 0 1 0 1
52 LEBANON 0 1 0 1
53 GUYANA 0 1 0 1
54 SINGAPORE 0 1 0 1
55 MOLDOVA 0 0 1 1
56 AZERBAIJAN 0 0 1 1
57 VENEZUELA 0 0 1 1

:: World Records

The following table shows the ranking of the national teams by total number of the official IWF world records set in 1920-2000.
  TEAM   Records Total Press Snatch C & J Total2 Total3
1 SOVIET UNION 1349 344 321 333 350 128 216
2 BULGARIA 279 95 11 92 81 92 3
3 GERMANY 244 85 69 50 40 3 82
4 UNITED STATES 170 37 46 38 49 0 37
5 AUSTRIA 86 19 31 16 20 0 19
6 JAPAN 65 19 1 38 7 2 17
7 CHINA 61 5 6 27 23 5 0
8 EGYPT 57 14 10 13 20 0 14
9 POLAND 54 14 4 18 18 2 12
10 FRANCE 52 6 4 25 17 0 6
11 HUNGARY 46 15 24 2 5 0 15
12 TURKEY 45 14 0 17 14 14 0
13 IRAN 39 10 5 6 18 4 6
14 FINLAND 34 6 5 21 2 0 6
15 CUBA 25 5 0 15 5 5 0
16 RUSSIA 23 8 0 5 10 8 0
17 GREECE 22 5 0 9 8 5 0
18 EAST GERMANY 21 7 0 4 10 7 0
19 SWEDEN 17 1 15 0 1 0 1
20 12 4 3 2 3 0 4
21 SOUTH KOREA 11 3 2 1 5 0 3
22 ITALY 10 3 2 3 2 0 3
23 CZECHOSLOVAKIA 10 4 0 2 4 1 3
24 NORTH KOREA 10 2 0 5 3 2 0
25 ESTONIA 10 0 2 3 5 0 0
26 UKRAINE 9 4 0 3 2 4 0
27 CANADA 8 0 8 0 0 0 0
28 BELARUS 8 2 0 4 2 2 0
29 BELGIUM 7 0 3 1 3 0 0
30 GREAT BRITAIN 7 3 1 2 1 0 3
31 SINGAPORE 6 0 2 0 4 0 0
32 SWITZERLAND 6 1 2 2 1 0 1
33 4 1 2 1 0 1 0
34 THAILAND 4 3 0 0 1 1 2
35 ARMENIA 4 0 0 4 0 0 0
36 4 0 0 4 0 0 0
37 LEBANON 4 0 0 4 0 0 0
38 PUERTO RICO 4 0 4 0 0 0 0
39 GEORGIA 4 0 0 3 1 0 0
40 WEST GERMANY 3 0 1 0 2 0 0
41 DENMARK 3 1 0 1 1 0 1
42 INDONESIA 2 0 0 0 2 0 0
43 PHILIPPINES 2 0 1 0 1 0 0
44 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 2 1 1 0 0 0 1
45 ROMANIA 2 0 0 2 0 0 0
46 BURMA 2 0 0 2 0 0 0
47 ARGENTINA 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
48 LUXEMBOURG 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
49 NORWAY 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
50 TURKMENISTAN 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
51 NETHERLANDS 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
52 CROATIA 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
53 KAZAKHSTAN 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
54 COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES 1 0 0 0 1 0 0

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