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1.2 Women. 1.2.1 Flyweight. 1.2.2 Lightweight. ... This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in weightlifting. Current program. Men. Featherweight –60 kg (1920 ...
This is a yearly list of the women's American weightlifting champions. Champions by year. As of 1 ... International Olympic Lifter: 202.5 kg Arlys Kovach: 75 kg: 1992:
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Campbell became the first British female weightlifter to win a medal at the Olympics, with a silver in the women's +87 kg event. [8] [9] [10] Later that year, she went on to earn a bronze medal at the World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [11] [12]
The last women's American weightlifter to win gold was Tara Nott-Cunningham at the 2000 Sydney Games. That was the first Olympics at which women's weightlifting was in competition.
A men's Olympic barbell weighs 20 kg (44 lbs) with a shaft diameter of 28 mm and a length of 2200 mm, whereas a women's Olympic barbell weighs 15 kg (33 lbs) and has a shaft diameter of 25 mm with a length of 2010 mm. [20] [21] The distance between the sleeves, however, is the same for the men's and the women's bars at 1310 mm.
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 ...
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]
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.