Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 56 kg

The men's 56 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place on 11 October at the Shibuya Public Hall. It was the fifth appearance of the bantamweight class.

Men's 56 kg at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Shibuya Public Hall
Date	11 October 1964
Competitors	24 from 18 nations
Winning total	357.5 kg WR
Medalists
Aleksey Vakhonin  Soviet Union Imre Földi  Hungary Shiro Ichinoseki  Japan

Results

Rank	Name	Country	kg
1	Aleksey Vakhonin	Soviet Union	357.5
2	Imre Földi	Hungary	355.0
3	Shiro Ichinoseki	Japan	347.5
4	Henryk Trębicki	Poland	342.5
5	Yang Mu-sin	South Korea	340.0
6	Yukio Furuyama	Japan	335.0
7	Yu In-ho	South Korea	335.0
8	Martin Dias	British Guiana	335.0
9	Róbert Nagy	Hungary	330.0
10	Rajabi Eslami	Iran	330.0
11	Mohamed Herit	Egypt	327.5
12	Renzo Grandi	Italy	327.5
13	Fernando Báez	Puerto Rico	322.5
14	Mohon Lal Ghosh	India	312.5
15	Mohammad Nassiri	Iran	310.0
16	Chit Mya	Myanmar	310.0
17	Chua Phung Kim	Malaysia	307.5
18	Chaiya Sukchinda	Thailand	302.5
19	Hector Curiel	Netherlands Antilles	300.0
20	Muhammad Azam	Pakistan	295.0
21	Gerald Hay	Australia	290.0
22	Sam Coffa	Australia	275.0
AC	Chung Nan-fei	Chinese Taipei	95.0
AC	Sermbhan Chongrak	Thailand	185.0