| 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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