The 1957 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran from November 8 to November 12, 1957. There were 76 men in action from 21 nations.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight 56 kg	Vladimir Stogov  Soviet Union	345.0 kg	Ali Safa-Sonboli  Iran	327.5 kg	Mahmoud Namjoo  Iran	320.0 kg
Featherweight 60 kg	Yevgeny Minayev  Soviet Union	362.5 kg	Sebastiano Mannironi  Italy	352.5 kg	Isaac Berger  United States	350.0 kg
Lightweight 67.5 kg	Viktor Bushuev  Soviet Union	380.0 kg	Ivan Abadzhiev  Bulgaria	372.5 kg	Jan Czepułkowski  Poland	365.0 kg
Middleweight 75 kg	Tommy Kono  United States	420.0 kg	Fyodor Bogdanovsky  Soviet Union	420.0 kg	Jan Bochenek  Poland	395.0 kg
Light heavyweight 82.5 kg	Trofim Lomakin  Soviet Union	450.0 kg	Jim George  United States	422.5 kg	Jalal Mansouri  Iran	412.5 kg
Middle heavyweight 90 kg	Arkady Vorobyov  Soviet Union	470.0 kg	Hassan Rahnavardi  Iran	440.0 kg	Firouz Pojhan  Iran	427.5 kg
Heavyweight +90 kg	Aleksey Medvedev  Soviet Union	500.0 kg	Humberto Selvetti  Argentina	485.0 kg	Alberto Pigaiani  Italy	452.5 kg

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	1	0	7
2	United States	1	1	1	3
3	Iran	0	2	3	5
4	Italy	0	1	1	2
5	Argentina	0	1	0	1
	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
7	Poland	0	0	2	2
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

• Results (Sport 123)
• Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine

• International Weightlifting Federation