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2020. 2024. 2028. Medalists. Records. Weightlifting has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the 1920 Summer Olympics, in Antwerp, Belgium, as well as twice before then. It debuted at the 1896 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, and was also an event at the 1904 Games.
71 kg. Olivia Lynn Reeves (born April 19, 2003) [1] is an American weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 71 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. In 2023, she won the bronze medal in her event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [2] She won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg ...
The weightlifting competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place from 7 to 11 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. [1][2] Several significant changes are instituted in the weightlifting program for Paris 2024, as the number of categories is trimmed from fourteen in Tokyo to ten. Furthermore, a total of 120 weightlifters ...
World Games. Women: 1997. Weightlifting (often known as Olympic weightlifting) is a competitive strength sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with the aim of successfully lifting the heaviest weights. Athletes compete in two specific ways of lifting the barbell overhead.
76 kg. 109 kg. 87 kg. +109 kg. +87 kg. v. t. e. The weightlifting competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 24 July to 4 August 2021 at the Tokyo International Forum.
Emily Campbell (born 6 May 1994) is a British weightlifter, the most successful British weightlifter of modern times. [2] She is a Commonwealth and four-time European champion, and a double World and Olympic medalist. In 2021, competing in the +87 kg category, Campbell became both European champion, and the first British woman to win an Olympic ...
The women's 55 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place on 26 July at the Tokyo International Forum. [1][2] The event was won by Hidilyn Diaz, the first Olympic gold medal (in any event) for the Philippines. China 's Liao Qiuyun took silver and Zulfiya Chinshanlo of Kazakhstan takes the bronze.
87 kg. +109 kg. +87 kg. v. t. e. The women's +87 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place on 2 August 2021 at the Tokyo International Forum. [1][2] During the competition, Laurel Hubbard made history by becoming the first transgender woman athlete to compete in the Olympics. [3]