The weightlifting competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. It also counted as 1964 World Weightlifting Championships.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight (56 kg) details	Aleksey Vakhonin  Soviet Union	357.5 kg	Imre Földi  Hungary	355.0 kg	Shiro Ichinoseki  Japan	347.5 kg
Featherweight (60 kg) details	Yoshinobu Miyake  Japan	397.5 kg	Isaac Berger  United States	382.5 kg	Mieczysław Nowak  Poland	377.5 kg
Lightweight (67.5 kg) details	Waldemar Baszanowski  Poland	432.5 kg	Vladimir Kaplunov  Soviet Union	432.5 kg	Marian Zieliński  Poland	420.0 kg
Middleweight (75 kg) details	Hans Zdražila  Czechoslovakia	445.0 kg	Viktor Kurentsov  Soviet Union	440.0 kg	Masushi Ouchi  Japan	437.5 kg
Light heavyweight (82.5 kg) details	Rudolf Plyukfelder  Soviet Union	475.0 kg	Géza Tóth  Hungary	467.5 kg	Győző Veres  Hungary	467.5 kg
Middle heavyweight (90 kg) details	Vladimir Golovanov  Soviet Union	487.5 kg	Louis Martin  Great Britain	475.0 kg	Ireneusz Paliński  Poland	467.5 kg
Heavyweight (+90 kg) details	Leonid Zhabotinsky  Soviet Union	572.5 kg	Yury Vlasov  Soviet Union	570.0 kg	Norbert Schemansky  United States	537.5 kg

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	3	0	7
2	Poland (POL)	1	0	3	4
3	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
6	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

• World Weightlifting Championships

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