|  Men under 56kg |  | 1. Alexander Vakhonin |   Soviet Union | 345 | 1. |  | 2. Imre Nagy |   Hungary | 312.5 |   |  | 3. Vasil Petkov |   Bulgaria | 310 |   
                       |  Men under 60kg |  | 1. Imre Foldi |   Hungary | 365 | 3. |  | 2. Sebastiano Mannironi |   Italy | 347.5 |   |  | 3. Andrzej Kozlowski |   Poland | 342.5 |   |   
                        |  Men under 67.5kg |  | 1. Marian Zielinski |   Poland | 417.5 | 1. |  | 2. Waldemar Baszanowski |   Poland | 410 | 2. |  | 3. Vladimir Kaplunov |   Soviet Union | 410 | 3. |   
             |  Men under 75kg |  | 1. Alexander Kurynov |   Soviet Union | 437.5 | 1. |  | 2. Mihaly Huszka |   Hungary | 437.5 | 2. |  | 3. Hans Zdrazila |   Czechoslovakia | 422.5 | 3. |   
                     |  Men under 82.5kg |  | 1. Gyongy Veres |   Hungary | 477.5 | 1. |  | 2. Rudolf Plukfelder |   Soviet Union | 467.5 | 2. |  | 3. Ferenc Toth |   Hungary | 450 | 3. |   
               |  Men under 90kg |  | 1. Louis Martin |   Great Britain | 480 | 1. |  | 2. Ireneusz Palinski |   Poland | 475 | 2. |  | 3. Eduard Brovko |   Soviet Union | 470 | 3. |   
                      |  Men over 90kg |  | 1. Yuri Vlassov |   Soviet Union | 557.5 | 1. |  | 2. Leonid Zhabotinsky |   Soviet Union | 527.5 | 3. |  | 3. Ivan Vesselinov |   Bulgaria | 485 |   |   
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|   | Medals | G | S | B | All |  | 1. |   Soviet Union | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7  |  | 2. |   Hungary | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5$ |  | 3. |   Poland | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |  | 4. |   Great Britain | 1 |   |   | 1 |  | 5. |   Italy |   | 1 |   | 1 |  | 6. |   Bulgaria |   |   | 2 | 2 |  | 7. |   Czechoslovakia |   |   | 1 | 1 |   
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