| Men under 56kg | | 1. Alexander Vakhonin |  Soviet Union | 345 | | 2. Hiroshi Fukuda |  Japan | 340 | | 3. Shiro Ichinoseki | Japan | 330 |
| Men under 60kg | | 1. Yoshinobu Miyake | Japan | 375 | | 2. Isaac Berger |  United States | 367.5 | | 3. Imre Foldi |  Hungary | 365 |
| Men under 67.5kg | | 1. Marian Zielinski |  Poland | 417.5 | | 2. Waldemar Baszanowski | Poland | 410 | | 3. Vladimir Kaplunov | Soviet Union | 410 |
| Men under 75kg | | 1. Alexander Kurynov | Soviet Union | 437.5 | | 2. Mihaly Huszka | Hungary | 437.5 | | 3. Hans Zdrazila |  Czechoslovakia | 422.5 |
| Men under 82.5kg | | 1. Gyongy Veres | Hungary | 477.5 | | 2. Rudolf Plukfelder | Soviet Union | 467.5 | | 3. Ferenc Toth | Hungary | 450 |
| Men under 90kg | | 1. Louis Martin |  Great Britain | 480 | | 2. Ireneusz Palinski | Poland | 475 | | 3. Eduard Brovko | Soviet Union | 470 |
| Men over 90kg | | 1. Yuri Vlassov | Soviet Union | 557.5 | | 2. Norbert Schemansky | United States | 537.5 | | 3. Leonid Zhabotinsky | Soviet Union | 527.5 |
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| | Medals | G | S | B | All | | 1. | Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | | 2. | Poland | 1 | 2 | | 3 | | 3. | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | | 4. | Japan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | | 5. | Great Britain | 1 | | | 1 | | 6. | United States | | 2 | | 2 | | 7. | Czechoslovakia | | | 1 | 1 |
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