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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 ...
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.
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.
Unified Team: Sergey Syrtsov Unified Team: Sergiusz Wolczaniecki Poland: 1996 Atlanta details: Aleksey Petrov Russia: Leonidas Kokas Greece: Oliver Caruso Germany: 2000 Sydney details: Akakios Kakiasvilis Greece: Szymon Kołecki Poland: Aleksey Petrov Russia: 2004 Athens details: Milen Dobrev Bulgaria: Khadzhimurat Akkaev Russia: Eduard Tyukin ...
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 ...
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 ...
348 kg. Tatiana Kashirina. Russia. 16 November 2014. World Championships. Almaty, Kazakhstan. [24][47] ^1 On the website of the International Weightlifting Federation, there is still the record of Nurcan Taylan (Turkey) of 121 kg who was disqualified for doping for this result. [48] Here was the previous mark.
The women's 59 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place on 27 July at the Tokyo International Forum. [1][2] This was the first ever 59 kg Olympic competition after the weight categories were reorganized in 2018. Kuo Hsing-chun from Chinese Taipei set three Olympic records to win her first Olympic gold after ...