Weightlifting was part of the first National Games of China held in Beijing. Only men competed in seven bodyweight categories which mostly mirrored the international standard at the time. In 1959 the Chinese Weightlifting Association was not yet a member federation of the IWF.
The competition program at the National Games mirrors that of the Olympic Games as only medals for the total achieved are awarded, but not for individual lifts in either the snatch or clean and jerk. Likewise an athlete failing to register a snatch result cannot advance to the clean and jerk.
Medal summary
Men 56 kgChen JingkaiGuangdong 320 kgLi JiyuanPLA 302.5 kgXue DemingShanghai 300 kg60 kgYou JiadongInner Mongolia 317.5 kgYang ZhaoquanPLA 315 kgYu ZhuquanGuangdong 305 kg67.5 kgHuang QianghuiHeilongjiang 370 kgXu HonglinJiangsu 357.5 kgHuang HuichengShanghai 342.5 kg75 kgShu GangGuangdong 375 kgPeng GuofuPLA 372.5 kgZhu HongquanShanghai 372.5 kg82.5 kgZhao QingkuiHebei 415 kgJiang GuanghongAnhui 375 kgQu BingyuShanghai 365 kg90 kgLi BaiyuSichuan 437.5 kgXie YanfaPLA 390 kgWu ShaoliangGuangdong 365 kg100 kgChang GuanqunShanghai 395 kgHan LaixiangPLA 390 kgWang LijunHebei 375 kg
Medal table
References Archived results of the 1959 Games