Weightlifting at the 1970 Asian Games

Weightlifting at the 1970 Asian Games
Venue	Bangkok Cultural Hall
Dates	10–17 December 1970
Competitors	50 from 10 nations
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Weightlifting was contested from December 10 to December 17 at the 1970 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand. The competition included only men's events for eight different weight categories.

Japan finished first in the medal table with 4 gold medals.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (52 kg)	Takeshi Horikoshi  Japan	Salvador del Rosario  Philippines	Mohammad Reza Nasehi  Iran
Bantamweight (56 kg)	Mohammad Nassiri  Iran	Kenkichi Ando  Japan	Choi Mun-jae  South Korea
Featherweight (60 kg)	Yoshiyuki Miyake  Japan	Madek Kasman  Indonesia	Than Tun  Burma
Lightweight (67.5 kg)	Nasrollah Dehnavi  Iran	Won Shin-hee  South Korea	Htein Win  Burma
Middleweight (75 kg)	Nobuyuki Hatta  Japan	Daniel Gevargiz  Iran	Lee Chun-sik  South Korea
Light heavyweight (82.5 kg)	Masushi Ouchi  Japan	Chao Cheng-hsueng  Republic of China	Park Moon-soo  South Korea
Middle heavyweight (90 kg)	Yun Sook-woon  South Korea	Hideki Fujimoto  Japan	Ebrahim Pourdejam  Iran
Heavyweight (110 kg)	Kim Dae-jhu  South Korea	Abdul Rosjid  Indonesia	Houshang Kargarnejad  Iran

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	2	0	6
2	Iran (IRN)	2	1	3	6
	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	3	6
4	Indonesia (INA)	0	2	0	2
5	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	0	1
	Republic of China (ROC)	0	1	0	1
7	Burma (BIR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

A total of 50 athletes from 10 nations competed in weightlifting at the 1970 Asian Games:

• Results

• Weightlifting Database