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Weightlifting at the 1948 London Summer Games:

Men's Featherweight

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: London, Great Britain
Venue(s): Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Kensington, London
Date Started: August 9, 1948
Date Finished: August 9, 1948
Format: Total of best lifts in military press, snatch, and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight.

Gold: EGY Mahmoud Fayad
Silver: TTO Rodney Wilkes
Bronze: IRI Jafar Salmasi

Final Standings

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC Medal K
1 Mahmoud Fayad Egypt EGY Gold 332.5 WR
2 Rodney Wilkes 23 Trinidad and Tobago TTO Silver 317.5
3 Jafar Salmasi 29 Iran IRI Bronze 312.5
4 Nam Su-Il 36 South Korea KOR 307.5
5 Rodrigo del Rosario 31 Philippines PHI 307.5
6 Emerick Ishikawa 27 United States USA 307.5
7 Johan Runge 24 Denmark DEN 305.0
8 Max Heral 21 France FRA 300.0
9 Richard Tomita 21 United States USA 300.0
10 André Le Guillerm 23 France FRA 300.0
11 Anton Richter 36 Austria AUT 292.5
12 Ibrahim El-Dessouki Egypt EGY 292.5
13 Arvid Andersson 29 Sweden SWE 292.5
14 Denis Hallett Great Britain GBR 292.5
15 Bálint B. Nagy Hungary HUN 290.0
16 Daniel Pon Mony 26 India IND 280.0
17 Simon Williams Jamaica JAM 277.5
18 Alphonso Correia Guyana GUY 275.0
19 Henri Colans 33 Belgium BEL 275.0
20 Sidney Kemble 34 Great Britain GBR 272.5
21 Alfonso Fiorentino Argentina ARG 260.0
22 Richard Rieder Switzerland SUI 255.0
AC Choi Hang-Gi South Korea KOR [85.0]