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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 ...
The 31-year-old set a Games snatch record by lifting 143 kilograms (315 pounds) on his third and final attempt, paving the way for gold when he got to 167 kilograms (368 pounds) in the clean and ...
Weightlifter Hampton Morris made history on Wednesday, becoming the first American man to win an Olympic weightlifting medal since 1984. Morris won bronze after hoisting a combined weight of 298 ...
Weightlifting is an Olympic sport, and has been contested in every Summer Olympic Games since 1920. While the sport is officially named "weightlifting", the terms "Olympic weightlifting" and "Olympic-style weightlifting" are often used to distinguish it from the other sports and events that involve the lifting of weights , such as powerlifting ...
On 14 June 2022, the International Weightlifting Federation officially announced the new weight categories for Paris 2024, with the total medal count reducing from fourteen to ten. Among the weightlifting medal events, the 61 and 73 kg categories for men and the 49 and 59 kg for women remain present from Tokyo 2020. The following list is the ...
The Women's 71 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place on 9 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. [1] Olivia Reeves won the United States' first gold medal in weightlifting since 2000. [2]
Reeves set an Olympic record on Friday in the snatch, lifting 117 kg (258 pounds). In total, she lifted 262 kg (578 pounds) to beat out Colombia's Mari Leivis Sanchez (silver) and Ecuador's Angie ...
The men's 96 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place on 31 July at the Tokyo International Forum. The weightlifter from Qatar won the gold, with a combined lift of 402 kg. [1] [2]