The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of socio-economic status on sport performance of junior national level weightlifters belong to rural and urban area of India. Two hundred (Rural =100, Urban =100) junior national level male weightlifters were taken from Junior National weightlifting competition held at Karnataka. The Socioeconomic status questionnaire prepared and validated by Aghase and Helode (2002) was used for the purpose of data collection. To find out the significant effect of socioeconomic status on sport performance of national level junior male weightlifters belong to rural and urban area, means, standard deviations and t-ratios were computed Results of the study indicated the positive effect of socioeconomic status on the sport performance of junior national level male weightlifters. Significance of difference was also observed in sport performance between rural and urban junior national level male weightlifters of high, mediocre and low socioeconomic status.