Redigerer VM i vektløfting 1979 (avsnitt)

==Medaljevinnere==
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2|width=250}}
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!colspan=7|52 kg
|-
|Rykk
|{{flagmedalist|[[Wu Shude]]|CHN}} || 110.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Aleksandr Voronin]]|URS|1955}}|| 110.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Cai Juncheng]]|CHN}}|| 107.5 kg
|-
|Rykk og støt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Kanybek Osmonaliyev]]|URS|1955}} ||137.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Ferenc Hornyák]]|HUN}} ||135.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Aleksandr Voronin]]|URS|1955}} ||132.5 kg
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|rowspan=2|Totalt
|rowspan=2|{{flagmedalist|[[Kanybek Osmonaliyev]]|URS|1955}} ||rowspan=2|242.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Ferenc Hornyák]]|HUN}}|| rowspan=2|242.5 kg
|rowspan=2|''Shared silver ||rowspan=2|
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|{{flagmedalist|[[Aleksandr Voronin]]|URS|1955}}
|-
!colspan=7|56 kg
|-
|Rykk
|{{flagmedalist|[[Tadeusz Dembończyk]]|POL}} || 117.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Anton Kodzhabashev]]|BUL|1971}}|| 117.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Daniel Núñez]]|CUB}}|| 115.0 kg
|-
|Rykk og støt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Viktor Veretennikov]]|URS|1955}}|| 150.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Anton Kodzhabashev]]|BUL|1971}} || 150.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Andreas Letz]]|GDR}}|| 147.5 kg
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|Totalt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Anton Kodzhabashev]]|BUL|1971}}|| 267.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Viktor Veretennikov]]|URS|1955}}|| 262.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Tadeusz Dembończyk]]|POL}} || 260.0 kg
|-
!colspan=7|60 kg
|-
|Rykk
|{{flagmedalist|[[Marek Seweryn]]|POL}} || 127.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Nikolaj Kolesnikov (vektløfter)|Nikolaj Kolesnikov]]|URS|1955}}|| 125.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Zhang Zhifang]]|CHN}}|| 125.0 kg
|-
|Rykk og støt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Marek Seweryn]]|POL}}|| 155.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Georgi Todorov]]|BUL|1971}}|| 155.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Setsuya Goto]]|JPN|1947}}|| 150.0 kg
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|Totalt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Marek Seweryn]]|POL}}|| 282.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Georgi Todorov]]|BUL|1971}}|| 275.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Setsuya Goto]]|JPN|1947}} || 270.0 kg
|-
!colspan=7|67.5 kg
|-
|Rykk
|{{flagmedalist|[[Yanko Rusev]]|BUL|1971}} || 145.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Joachim Kunz]]|GDR}}|| 145.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Daniel Senet]]|FRA}}|| 142.5 kg
|-
|Rykk og støt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Yanko Rusev]]|BUL|1971}}|| 187.5 kg<br />{{WR|Olympic weightlifting}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Joachim Kunz]]|GDR}} || 180.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Yao Jingyuan]]|CHN}}|| 172.5 kg
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|Totalt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Yanko Rusev]]|BUL|1971}}|| 332.5 kg<br />{{WR|Olympic weightlifting}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Joachim Kunz]]|GDR}} || 325.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Daniel Senet]]|FRA}}|| 312.5 kg
|-
!colspan=7|75 kg
|-
|Rykk
|{{flagmedalist|[[Roberto Urrutia]]|CUB}}|| 155.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Nedelcho Kolev]]|BUL|1971}} || 155.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Yordan Mitkov]]|BUL|1971}}|| 150.0 kg
|-
|Rykk og støt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Roberto Urrutia]]|CUB}}|| 190.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Peter Wenzel]]|GDR}} || 190.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Jürgen Negwer]]|FRG}}|| 187.5 kg
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|Totalt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Roberto Urrutia]]|CUB}}|| 345.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Nedelcho Kolev]]|BUL|1971}}|| 342.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Peter Wenzel]]|GDR}} || 337.5 kg
|-
!colspan=7|82.5 kg
|-
|Rykk
|{{flagmedalist|[[Yurik Vardanyan]]|URS|1955}}|| 170.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Blagoy Blagoev]]|BUL|1971}}|| 170.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Bertalan Mandzák]]|HUN}} || 155.0 kg
|-
|Rykk og støt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Yurik Vardanyan]]|URS|1955}}|| 200.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[András Stark]]|HUN}}|| 195.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Norbert Bergmann]]|FRG}} || 195.0 kg
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|Totalt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Yurik Vardanyan]]|URS|1955}}|| 370.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Blagoy Blagoev]]|BUL|1971}} || 362.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Dušan Poliačik]]|TCH}}|| 350.0 kg
|-
!colspan=7|90 kg
|-
|Rykk
|{{flagmedalist|[[Gennady Bessonov]]|URS|1955}}|| 170.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Rolf Milser]]|FRG}}|| 165.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Witold Walo]]|POL}} || 160.0 kg
|-
|Rykk og støt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Rolf Milser]]|FRG}}|| 212.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Gennady Bessonov]]|URS|1955}}|| 210.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Witold Walo]]|POL}} || 202.5 kg
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|Totalt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Gennady Bessonov]]|URS|1955}}|| 380.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Rolf Milser]]|FRG}} || 377.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Witold Walo]]|POL}}|| 362.5 kg
|-
!colspan=7|100 kg
|-
|Rykk
|{{flagmedalist|[[János Sólyomvári]]|HUN}}|| 175.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Ota Zaremba]]|TCH}} || 172.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Plamen Asparukhov]]|BUL|1971}}|| 167.5 kg
|-
|Rykk og støt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Pavel Syrchin]]|URS|1955}}|| 217.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Anton Baraniak]]|TCH}}|| 210.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[János Sólyomvári]]|HUN}}|| 210.0 kg
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|Totalt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Pavel Syrchin]]|URS|1955}}|| 385.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[János Sólyomvári]]|HUN}}|| 385.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Alberto Blanco (vektløfter)|Alberto Blanco]]|CUB}}|| 372.5 kg
|-
!colspan=7|110 kg
|-
|Rykk
|{{flagmedalist|[[Sergey Arakelov]]|URS|1955}} || 185.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Leonid Taranenko]]|URS|1955}}|| 182.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Valentin Hristov (vektløfter, født 1956)|Valentin Hristov]]|BUL|1971}}|| 177.5 kg
|-
|Rykk og støt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Sergey Arakelov]]|URS|1955}}|| 225.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Valentin Hristov (vektløfter, født 1956)|Valentin Hristov]]|BUL|1971}}|| 225.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Leif Nilsson]]|SWE}}|| 220.0 kg
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|Totalt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Sergey Arakelov]]|URS|1955}}|| 410.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Valentin Hristov (vektløfter, født 1956)|Valentin Hristov]]|BUL|1971}}|| 402.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Leonid Taranenko]]|URS|1955}}|| 402.5 kg
|-
!colspan=7|+110 kg
|-
|Rykk
|{{flagmedalist|[[Sultan Rakhmanov]]|URS|1955}} || 192.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Jürgen Heuser]]|GDR}}|| 187.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Rudolf Strejček]]|TCH}}|| 185.0 kg
|-
|Rykk og støt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Sultan Rakhmanov]]|URS|1955}}|| 237.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Jürgen Heuser]]|GDR}}|| 232.5 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Gerd Bonk]]|GDR}}|| 230.0 kg
|-bgcolor=#ffffcc
|Totalt
|{{flagmedalist|[[Sultan Rakhmanov]]|URS|1955}}|| 430.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Jürgen Heuser]]|GDR}}|| 420.0 kg
|{{flagmedalist|[[Gerd Bonk]]|GDR}}|| 412.5 kg
|}