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The women's 55 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place on 26 July at the Tokyo International Forum. [1] [2] The event was won by Hidilyn Diaz, the first Olympic gold medal (in any event) for the Philippines. China's Liao Qiuyun took silver and Zulfiya Chinshanlo of Kazakhstan takes the bronze.
This is a list of world records in Olympic weightlifting. These records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) restructured its weight classes in 1993, 1998 and 2018, nullifying earlier records.
The number of weightlifters at these Games was reduced to 196, down from 260 in the 2016 Summer Olympics.. Furthermore, many countries had reduced squads, and four were excluded from weightlifting at these Games due to punishments given as a result of high numbers of historic doping offenses.
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 ...
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.
[1] [2] During the competition, Laurel Hubbard made history by becoming the first transgender woman athlete to compete in the Olympics. [ 3 ] Li Wenwen from China won the gold, making three new Olympic records in the process, for snatch, clean & jerk as well as for the combined weight lifted.
In the early Games, all lifters competed in the same events, regardless of their individual body weights. 1896. One hand lift; Two hand lift; 1904. Two hand lift; All-around dumbbell; When the sport returned to the Olympic Games in 1920, the competition was structured as a set of weight classes. The number of classes and weight limits for each ...
She competed in the women's 69 kg event where she finished in 5th place in both the Snatch and the Clean & Jerk events. She also represented Italy at the 2018 Mediterranean Games held in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. [4] [5] In 2020, she won the silver medal in the women's 59 kg Snatch event at the Roma 2020 World Cup in Rome, Italy. [1]