56 kg, Men 1948-2016

1948
1 Joseph De Pietro USA 307,5
2 Julian Creus GBR 297,5
3 Richard Tom USA 295,0
4 Kyu-hyuk Lee KOR 290,0
5 Mahmoud Namjou IRI 287,5
6 Marcel Thévenet FRA 280,0
7 Rosaire Smith CAN 277,5
8 Maurice Crow NZL 272,5

1952
1 Ivan Udodov URS 315,0
2 Mahmoud Namjou IRI 307,5
3 Ali Mirzaii IRI 300,0
4 Hae-nam Kim KOR 295,0
5 Kamal Mahmoud Mahgoub EGY 292,5
6 Pedro Landero PHI 292,5
7 Maurice Megennis GBR 280,0
8 Lon Mohamed Noor SIN 275,0

1956
1 Charles Vinci USA 342,5
2 Vladimir Stogov URS 337,5
3 Mahmoud Namjou IRI 332,5
4 Yu In-ho KOR 320,0
5 Kim Hae-nam KOR 307,5
6 Yoshio Nambu JPN 305,0
7 Reginald Gaffley RSA 305,0
8 Yukio Furuyama JPN 302,5

1960
1 Charles Vinci USA 345,0
2 Yoshinobu Miyake JPN 337,5
3 Esmail Elmkhan IRI 330,0
4 Shigeo Kogure JPN 322,5
5 Marian Jankowski POL 322,5
6 Imre Földi HUN 320,0
7 Yu In-ho KOR 315,0
8 Husain Hasan IRQ 312,5

1964
1 Aleksei Vakhonin URS 357,5
2 Imre Földi HUN 355,0
3 Shiro Ichinoseki JPN 347,5
4 Henryk Trebicki POL 342,5
5 Yang Mu-shin KOR 340,0
6 Yukio Furuyama JPN 335,0
7 Yu In-ho KOR 335,0
8 Martin Dias GUY 335,0

1968
1 Mohammad Nasiri Seresht IRI 367,5
2 Imre Földi HUN 367,5
3 Henryk Trebicki POL 357,5
4 Gennady Chetin URS 352,5
5 Shiro Ichinoseki JPN 350,0
6 Fernando Baez Cruz PUR 345,0
7 Atanas Kirov BUL 335,0
8 Chaiya Sukchinda THA 330,0

1972
1 Imre Földi HUN 377,5
2 Mohammad Nasiri Seresht IRI 370,0
3 Gennady Chetin URS 367,5
4 Henryk Trebicki POL 365,0
5 Atanas Kirov BUL 362,5
6 George Vasiliades AUS 355,0
7 Hiroshi Ono JPN 355,0
8 Georgi Todorov BUL 350,0

1976
1 Norair Nurikian BUL 262,5
2 Grzegorz Cziura POL 252,5
3 Kenkichi Ando JPN 250,0
4 Leszek Skorupa POL 250,0
5 Imre Földi HUN 245,0
6 Bemhard Backfisch RFG 242,5
7 Carlos Lastre CUB 240,0
8 Fazlollah Dehkhoda IRI 240,0

1980
1 Daniel Nunez Aguiar CUB 275,0
2 Yurik Sarkisian URS 270,0
3 Tadeusz Demboriczyk POL 265,0
4 Andress Letz GDR 265,0
5 Yang Eui-yong PRK 262,5
6 Imre Stefanovics HUN 260,0
7 Gheorghe Maftei ROU 247,5
8 Pavel Petre ROU 245,0

1984
1 Wu Shude CHN 267,5
2 Lai Runming CHN 265,0
3 Masahiro Kotaka JPN 252,5
4 Takashi Ichiba JPN 250,0
5 Kim Chil-bong KOR 245,0
6 Dionisio Munoz ESP 242,5
7 Arvo Ojalehto FIN 242,5
8 Albert Hood USA 242,5

1988
1 Oksen Mirzojan URS 292,5
2 He Yingqiang CHN 287,5
3 Liu Shoubin CHN 267,5
4 Dirdja Wihardja INA 255,0
5 Takeshi Ichiba JPN 252,5
6 Kwi-shik Kim KOR 252,5
7 Joaquin Valle ESP 247,5
8 Giovanni Scarantino ITA 245,0

1992
1 Chun Byung-kwan KOR 287,5
2 Liu Shoubin CHN 277,5
3 Luo Jianming CHN 277,5
4 Laurent Fombertasse FRA 260,0
5 Katsuhiko Sakuma JPN 255,0
6 Tibor Karczag HUN 255,0
7 Kim Yong-chol PRK 255,0
8 Marek Gorzelniak POL 255,0

1996
(59 kg)
1 Tang Ningsheng CHN 307,5
2 Leonidas Sabanis GRE 305,0
3 Nikolay Peshalov BUL 302,5
4 Hiroshi Ikehata JPN 297,5
5 William Vargas CUB 297,5
6 Xu Dong CHN 295,0
7 Yurik Sarkisian AUS 280,0
8 Zoltan Farkas HUN 280,0

2000
1 Hail Mutlu TUR 305,0
2 Wu Wenxiong CHN 287,5
3 Zhang Xiangxiang CHN 287,5
4 Wang Shin-Yuan TPE 285,0
5 Sergio Alvarez CUB 275,0
6 Adrian Ioan Jigau ROU 275,0
7 Vitaly Derbenev BLR 275,0
8 Yang Chin-Yi TPE 270,0

2004
1 Halil Mutlu TUR 295,0
2 Meijin Wu CHN 287,5
3 Sedat Artuc TUR 280,0
4 Vitali Dzerbianiou BLR 280,0
5 Oscar Albeiro Figeroa COL 280,0
6 Adiran Ioan Jigau ROU 275,0
7 Laszlo Tancsics HUN 272,5
8 Jadi Setiadi INA 262,5

2008
1 Qingquan Long CHN 292,0
2 Anh Tuan Hoang VIE 290,0
3 Eko Yuli Irawan INA 288,0
4 Chin-Yi Yang TPE 285,0
5 Kum Chol Cha PRK 283,0
6 Sergio Alvarez CUB 272,0
7 Shin-Yuan Wang TPE 265,0
8 Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim MAS 265,0
14 Vito Dellino ITA 247,0

2012
1 Om Yun-Chol PRK 293
2 Wu Jingbiao CHN 289
3 Tran Le Quoc Toan VIE 284
4 Jadi Setiadi INA 277
5 Josè Montes MEX 269
6 Sergio Rada COL 269
7 Carlos Berna COL 268
8 Sin Chol Bom PRK
14 Mirco Scarantino ITA 225
Final classification after Valentin Hristov AZE (286) and Florin Croitoru ROU (268) have been disqualified due the anti-doping rule violations

2016
1 Qingquan Long CHN 307
2 Yun Chol Om PRK 303
3 Sinphet Kruaithong THA 289
4 Arli Chontey KAZ 278
5 Quoc Toan Tran Le VIE 275
6 Habib De las Salas de la Rosa COL 266
7 Mirco Scarantino ITA 264
8 Lui Alberto Garcia Brito DOM 263