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In Ancient China and Greece, men lifted stones to prove their strength and manhood. [5] There is a tradition in Scotland of weight lifting competitions in Scottish Highland Gatherings, which have been annual events since the 1820s; [6] and these contests are forerunners of modern strength athletics.
Ningbo, China -73 kg Snatch 170 kg Shi Zhiyong: 22 September 2021 National Games: Weinan, China [4] Clean & Jerk 199 kg Shi Zhiyong: 23 October 2020 National Championships Quzhou, China Total 365 kg Shi Zhiyong: 22 September 2021 National Games: Weinan, China [4]-81 kg Snatch 175 kg Li Dayin: 21 April 2021 Asian Championships: Tashkent ...
[14] [15] China's Chen Yanqing became an early star of women's weightlifting at the Olympics—as she won Olympic gold two games in a row, in 2004 and 2008. [16] [17] In 2011, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) ruled that athletes could wear a full body "unitard" under the customary weightlifting uniform. [18]
Li Wenwen won the women’s +81 kilogram division on Sunday to give China five gold medals in weightlifting at the Paris Olympics. Li was the runaway winner by lifting a total of 309 kilograms ...
Ancient Roman relief showing a legionary. Antikensammlung, 2nd century AD. Physical training has been present in some human societies throughout history. Usually, people trained to prepare for physical competition or display, to improve physical, emotional and mental health, and to look attractive. [1]
TOKYO (Reuters) -China's Lyu Xiaojun won a gold medal in the men's 81kg weightlifting competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday but failed to break his own world record. The 37-year-old lifted ...
Olympic weightlifters for China (85 P) Σ. Chinese weightlifting biography stubs (127 P) This page was last edited on 1 April 2018, at 19:30 (UTC). Text ...
The evolution of the martial arts has been described by historians in the context of countless historical battles. Building on the work of Laughlin (1956, 1961), Rudgley argues that Mongolian wrestling, as well as the martial arts of the Chinese, Japanese and Aleut peoples, all have "roots in the prehistoric era and to a common Mongoloid ancestral people who inhabited north-eastern Asia."