PARIS (Reuters) -Bulgaria's Karlos Nasar raised the roof of the Paris Expo with a world record-breaking performance to take the men's 89kg Olympic weightlifting title at the Paris Games on Friday with ...

However, the sport of weightlifting recognizes just two lifts for competition: the snatch and the clean and jerk. At the Olympics, lifters are tested in both disciplines in a combined competition. The ...

Here's what you need to know about weightlifting at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The first modern Olympic Games in 1896 included ...

The first weightlifting event at the Paris Olympics started with a technical delay for about 20 minutes, but eventually, 12 men weighing under 61 kg from 12 countries stepped on the platform.

To qualify in weightlifting at the Paris Olympics, an athlete must rank in the top 10 of his or her weight class based on the official International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Olympic ...

Olympic weightlifting, simply known to athletes as weightlifting, is not to be confused with weight lifting, the act of lifting weights; or powerlifting, a completely different strength sport.

After her final lift in the 71 kg weightlifting competition at the Olympic Games in Paris earlier this month, Olivia Reeves ...

Femke Bol of the Netherlands is ranked #2 in the world in track and field. But the greatest Dutch track athlete ever is named ...

Reeves rode atop a red Mercedes convertible with her gold medal through UTC's campus and later received the keys to the city ...

UW student Emma Rogers, from Pinedale, competes in Olympic-style weightlifting and is ranked nationally as the second-best ...

A little more than a month after earning Olympic wrestling gold, Sarah Hildebrandt enjoyed a homecoming celebration where her ...