The men's 56 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place on 7 September at the Palazzetto dello Sport. It was the fourth appearance of the bantamweight class.
Results Rank Name Country kg 1 Charles Vinci 345.0 2 Yoshinobu Miyake 337.5 3 Esmaeil Elmkhah 330.0 4 Shigeo Kogure 322.5 5 Marian Jankowski 322.5 6 Imre Földi 320.0 7 Yu In-ho 315.0 8 Ali Hassain Hussain 312.5 9 Renzo Grandi 307.5 10 Grantley Sobers 307.5 11 Hector Curiel 305.0 12 Balaș Fitzi 300.0 13 Rocco Spinola 300.0 14 Árpád Borsányi 295.0 15 Fernando Báez 290.0 16 Zuhair Elia Mansour 290.0 17 Tan Tjoe Gwat 285.0 18 Eduard Meron 270.0 19 Luís Paquete 245.0 AC Alberto Canlas 167.5 AC Hans Reck 170.0 AC Muhammad Azam 182.5
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