Weightlifting at the 1958 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium Gymnasium
Dates	25–28 May
Competitors	60 from 11 nations
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Weightlifting was contested from May 25 to May 28 at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo Main Stadium Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan. The competition included only men's events for eight different weight categories.

Iran finished first at the medal table by winning three gold medals.

Schedule

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (52 kg) details	Lee Jang-woo  South Korea	Esmaeil Elmkhah  Iran	Keiji Hagio  Japan
Bantamweight (56 kg) details	Shigeo Kogure  Japan	Mahmoud Namjoo  Iran	Alberto Nogar  Philippines
Featherweight (60 kg) details	Lee Taik-yong  South Korea	Ali Safa-Sonboli  Iran	Fumio Takeda  Japan
Lightweight (67.5 kg) details	Tan Howe Liang  Singapore	Kenji Onuma  Japan	Henrik Tamraz  Iran
Middleweight (75 kg) details	Ko Bu-beng  Republic of China	Ebrahim Peiravi  Iran	Yoshio Hara  Japan
Light heavyweight (82.5 kg) details	Jalal Mansouri  Iran	Minoru Kubota  Japan	Park Dong-cheol  South Korea
Middle heavyweight (90 kg) details	Hassan Rahnavardi  Iran	Hwang Ho-dong  South Korea	Tan Kim Bee  Malaya
Heavyweight (+90 kg) details	Firouz Pojhan  Iran	Lee Young-wan  South Korea	Gisaburo Seyama  Japan

Medal table

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

Participating nations

A total of 60 athletes from 11 nations competed in weightlifting at the 1958 Asian Games: