Weightlifting at the IV Paralympic Games
Paralympic Weightlifting
Competitors	46 from 18 nations
←1968 1976→

Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Paralympics consisted of six events for men.^[1]

There were 46 male competitors representing 18 nations.^[2]

There were 18 medal winners representing 10 nations.^[3]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	2	1	2	5
2	United States (USA)	1	3	1	5
3	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	0	1
6	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
8	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		6	6	6	18

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's light featherweight details	Dumont  France	Martin  United States	Jan Was  Poland
Men's featherweight details	Pearson  Jamaica	Benny Nilsson  Sweden	Shmuel Haimovitz  Israel
Men's lightweight details	Alex Eguers  France	Vidal Johnsen  Norway	Ernst Michel  Switzerland
Men's middleweight details	Edward Coyle  United States	René Brifoulliere  France	Richard Tauber  United States
Men's light heavyweight details	Ralph Rowe  Great Britain	Patton  United States	Michel Allorge  France
Men's heavyweight details	Vic Renalson  Australia	Jon Brown  United States	Gillet  France

• Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Paralympics (Heidelberg) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)