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  2. Weightlifting - Wikipedia

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    Weightlifting is very beneficial for health in countless ways. Weightlifting induces the production of collagen proteins which helps build structure and strength of tendons and ligaments. It also is optimal for promoting and improving joint stability. Weightlifting can also increase metabolism and increases resting metabolic rate.

  3. Kunjarani Devi - Wikipedia

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    Her first World Women's Weightlifting Championship was the Manchester edition in 1989 and the reward of three silver medals buoyed her spirits considerably. Since then she has taken part in seven successive World Championships and with the exception of the Melbourne edition in 1993, she has won medals at every one of those competitions.

  4. Gita (given name) - Wikipedia

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    1 List of people with the given name. 2 See also. ... Other names; Alternative spelling: Geeta: ... Geeta Rani, Indian weightlifter;

  5. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    from ख़ाकी khākī "of dust colour, dusty, grey", cf. Hindi ख़ाकी - Urdu خاکی [ultimately from Persian]. Karma from Sanskrit, the result of a person's actions as well as the actions themselves. It is a term about the cycle of cause and effect. Kedgeree

  6. Strongman - Wikipedia

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    Strongman is often incorrectly used to describe a person who does powerlifting, weightlifting or bodybuilding. Due to the circus and entertainment background, nineteenth-century bodybuilders were expected to mingle with the crowd during intermission and perform strength feats like card tearing, nail bending, etc. to demonstrate strength as well ...

  7. Olympic weightlifting - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Popy Hazarika - Wikipedia

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    Popy Hazarika (born 8 December 1998) is an Indian weightlifter. [2] She won a Silver medal at 2021 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent. [3] In July 2022 she placed Seventh in the women's 59 kg weightlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. [4]

  9. Lasha Talakhadze - Wikipedia

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    Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; Georgian pronunciation: [laʃa tʼalaχadze]; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records regardless of weight category in the snatch (225 kg, 496 lb), the clean and jerk (267 kg, 589 lb), and the total (492 kg, 1,085 lb) since 2021.