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Other weightlifting sports include stone lifting, powerlifting, kettlebell lifting, and para powerlifting—the weightlifting sport practiced at the Paralympic Games. Different weightlifting sports may be distinguished by the different ways of lifting a weight, and/or the objects lifted. Weightlifting events are key elements of strength athletics.
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.
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 ...
Kendrick James Farris (born July 2, 1986) is an Olympic weightlifter from the United States. He competed for the United States in the 85 kg weight class at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he placed 8th. Farris also participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London where he placed 10th.
Hampton Miller Morris (born February 17, 2004) [1] is an American weightlifter.At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he won bronze in the men's 61 kg event. He is a three-time gold medalist in the men's 61 kg event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships (2021, 2022 and 2023).
PARIS (AP) — Hampton Morris does not have a driver's license. He does have an Olympic bronze medal. The 20-year-old who trains in his garage at home in Marietta, Georgia, on Wednesday became the ...
Caine Morgan Wilkes (born July 10, 1987) is an American weightlifter. [2] He is a three-time gold medalist in his event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships. He also won the silver medal on four occasions. Wilkes represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
The fact that he sold supplements through his company, was a weightlifting coach and a founding member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, as well as his athletic career, helped make him "a major factor in the growth of nutritional fads for athletes", according to alternative medicine critic Stephen Barrett.