The 1961 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Vienna, Austria from September 20 to September 25, 1961. There were 120 men in action from 33 nations.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Bantamweight 56 kg	Vladimir Stogov  Soviet Union	345.0 kg	Imre Földi  Hungary	345.0 kg	Yoshinobu Miyake  Japan	337.5 kg
Featherweight 60 kg	Isaac Berger  United States	367.5 kg	Sebastiano Mannironi  Italy	357.5 kg	Shared silver
			Yevgeny Minayev  Soviet Union
Lightweight 67.5 kg	Waldemar Baszanowski  Poland	402.5 kg	Sergey Lopatin  Soviet Union	400.0 kg	Marian Zieliński  Poland	395.0 kg
Middleweight 75 kg	Aleksandr Kurynov  Soviet Union	435.0 kg	Győző Veres  Hungary	420.0 kg	Marcel Paterni  France	405.0 kg
Light heavyweight 82.5 kg	Rudolf Plyukfelder  Soviet Union	450.0 kg	Géza Tóth  Hungary	432.5 kg	Tommy Kono  United States	430.0 kg
Middle heavyweight 90 kg	Ireneusz Paliński  Poland	475.0 kg	Louis Martin  Great Britain	462.5 kg	Arkady Vorobyov  Soviet Union	457.5 kg
Heavyweight +90 kg	Yury Vlasov  Soviet Union	525.0 kg	Richard Zirk  United States	475.0 kg	Eino Mäkinen  Finland	462.5 kg

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	4	2	1	7
2	Poland	2	0	1	3
3	United States	1	1	1	3
4	Hungary	0	3	0	3
5	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
7	Finland	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	8	6	21

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

• International Weightlifting Federation