Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 82.5 kg

Men's 82.5 kg at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medal winners
Venue	Palazzetto dello Sport
Date	9 September 1960
Competitors	24 from 22 nations
Winning total	442.5 kg
Medalists
Ireneusz Paliński  Polen Jim George  Vereinigte Staaten Jan Bochenek  Polen

The men's 82.5 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place on 9 September at the Palazzetto dello Sport. It was the ninth appearance of the light heavyweight class.

Results

Rank	Name	Land	kg
1	Ireneusz Paliński	Polen	442.5
2	Jim George	Vereinigte Staaten	430.0
3	Jan Bochenek	Polen	420.0
4	Géza Tóth	Ungarn	417.5
5	Jouni Kailajärvi	Finnland	417.5
6	Petar Tachev	Bulgarien	415.0
7	Minoru Kubota	Japan	400.0
8	Willy Claes	Belgien	392.5
9	Shakir Salman	Iraq	390.0
10	Amiri Mangashti	Iran	390.0
11	Fernando Torres	Puerto Rico	390.0
12	Jean Debuf	Frankreich	390.0
13	Rolf Sennewald	United Team of Germany	390.0
14	Mike Lipari	Kanada	387.5
15	Phil Caira	Great Britain	385.0
16	Sven Borrman	Schweden	385.0
17	Iakovos Psaltis	Griechenland	385.0
18	Kuan King Lam	Malaya	370.0
19	Roland Fidel	Schweiz	365.0
20	Abdel Kader Ben Kamel	Marokko	337.5
21	Jesús Rodríguez	Spanien	325.0
AC	Mohamed Ali Abdel Kerim	United Arab Republic	115.0
AC	Sylvanus Blackman	Great Britain	250.0
AC	Enrique Guittens	Venezuela	DNF