Weightlifting at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Weightlifting at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
LocationWard Theatre, Kingston, Jamaica
Dates4 to 13 August 1966

Weightlifting at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the fifth appearance of Weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games. The events took place at the Ward Theatre in Kingston, Jamaica and featured contests in seven weight classes.[1][2]

England topped the weightlifting medal table with two gold medals.[3][4]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Jamaica)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 England2316
2 Australia1113
 Wales1113
4 Canada1023
5 Trinidad and Tobago1012
6 New Zealand1001
7 Guyana0101
 India0101
9 Jamaica*0011
Totals (9 entries)77721

Medal winners

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Bantamweight England Precious McKenzie Guyana Martin Dias Canada Chun Hon Chan
Featherweight Wales Chung Kum Weng India Mahon Ghosh Canada Allen Salter
Lightweight Trinidad and Tobago Hugo Gittens England George Newton Wales Ieuan Owen
Middleweight Canada Pierre St.-Jean Wales Horace Johnson Australia Russell Perry
Light Heavyweight Australia George Vakakis England Sylvanus Blackman England Mike Pearman
Middle Heavyweight England Louis Martin England George Manners Jamaica Dudley Lawson
Heavyweight New Zealand Don Oliver Australia Arthur Shannos Trinidad and Tobago Brandon Bailey

Results

[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Bantamweight 56kg

Pos Athlete Weight
1 England Precious McKenzie 705 lb
2 Guyana Martin Dias 677.5 lb
3 Canada Chun Hon Chan 672 lb
4 Barbados Anthony Phillips 666.5 lb
5 Australia Gerald Hay 655.5 lb
6 Canada Marcel Gosselin 616.75 lb
7 Scotland John McNiven 606 lb
8 Northern Ireland Sammy Dalzell 600.25 lb
9 Jamaica Clifford Chin 545.25 lb
- British Honduras William A. Samuels ns
- Singapore Chua Phung Kim ns

Featherweight 60kg

Pos Athlete Weight
1 Wales Chung Kum Weng 743.5 lb
2 India Mahon Ghosh 738 lb
3 Canada Allen Salter 716 lb
4 Barbados Winston Bourne 705 lb
5 India Arun K. Das 694 lb
6 Australia Joseph Charles Brancatisano 688.5 lb
7 Singapore Ghye H. Tang 666.5 lb
8 New Zealand Bruce Cameron 639 lb
- Guyana G. Shepherd ns
- Trinidad and Tobago Clyde Morris ns
- Lewis Kok Shun sn

Lightweight 67.5kg

Pos Athlete Weight
1 Trinidad and Tobago Hugo Gittens 809.75 lb
2 England George Newton 782.25 lb
3 Wales Ieuan Owen 771 lb
4 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Maurice King 771 lb
5 Canada Marcel Bedard 754.75 lb
6 Guyana W. Lewis 743.5 lb
7 Scotland Jimmy Moir 732.75 lb
8 Singapore Kim S. Boo 721.5 lb
9 Northern Ireland Paul Ross 710.5 lb
10 British Honduras Arthur Francisco 644.5 lb
11 Jamaica Edward Young 628 lb
- British Honduras Arthur C. Pollard ns
- India Lakshmi Das ns
- Malaysia Sek Tong Cheah ns

Middleweight 75kg

Pos Athlete Weight
1 Canada Pierre St.-Jean 892.5 lb
2 Wales Horace Johnson 843 lb
3 Australia Russell Perry 821 lb
4 Guyana J. France 793.5 lb
5 England Laurie Levine 787.75 lb
6 New Zealand John Bolton 787.75 lb
7 Jamaica Cedric Demetrius 754.75 lb
8 Northern Ireland Alex McAfee 727 lb
- Singapore Tan Howe Liang ns
- Malaysia Tong A. Teo ns

Light Heavyweight 82.5kg

Pos Athlete Weight
1 Australia George Vakakis 925.5 lb
2 England Sylvanus Blackman 914.5 lb
3 England Mike Pearman 903.5 lb
4 Trinidad and Tobago David Harry 898 lb
5 Canada Earl Jack 854 lb
6 Barbados Hal Springer 843 lb
7 Jamaica Kenneth G. Gordon 815.5 lb
8 Jamaica Keith Bailey 749 lb
9 Alan A. Tang Yan 705 lb
- Guyana Rudolph James ns
- Wales Peter Arthur ns
- Scotland Phil Caira ns
- Malaysia Meng S. Yap ns

Middle Heavyweight 90kg

Pos Athlete Weight
1 England Louis Martin 1019.25 lb
2 England George Manners 947.75 lb
3 Jamaica Dudley Lawson 931 lb
4 Canada Paul Bjarnason 920 lb
5 Jamaica Leslie Pedlar 771.25 lb
6 Australia Graeme Hall ns
7 Malaysia Chim Seong Leong ns

Heavyweight 110kg

Pos Athlete Weight
1 New Zealand Don Oliver 1096.25 lb
2 Australia Arthur Shannos 1024.75 lb
3 Trinidad and Tobago Brandon Bailey 1019.5 lb
4 Wales Terry Perdue 936.5 lb
5 Scotland Jim Ferguson ns

References

  1. ^ "Louis Martin's win thrills Jamaicans". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 10 August 1966. p. 16. Retrieved 14 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "38 countries set Games record". Belfast Telegraph. 4 May 1966. p. 22. Retrieved 14 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Weightlifting". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  4. ^ "Medal Standings Kingston 1966". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  5. ^ "Commonwealth Games results". The Scotsman. 6 August 1966. p. 20. Retrieved 9 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Kingston Games Results". The People. 7 August 1966. p. 16. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "Commonwealth Games results". The Scotsman. 8 August 1966. p. 12. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ "Games results". Daily Mirror. 9 August 1966. p. 19. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Empire Games' Results List". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 9 August 1966. p. 20. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ "Commonwealth Games results". The Scotsman. 10 August 1966. p. 16. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ^ "Commonwealth Games results". Evening News (London). 11 August 1966. p. 13. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ^ "Your Games Results". The Scotsman. 12 August 1966. p. 16. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  13. ^ "Commonwealth Games results". The Scotsman. 13 August 1966. p. 20. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  14. ^ "Commonwealth Games results". The Scotsman. 15 August 1966. p. 20. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.

See also