Li Wenwen won the women's +81 kilogram division to give China five gold medals in weightlifting at the Paris Olympics, while the U.S. came away with two weightlifting medals during the Games.

The world’s elite weightlifting athletes return to the Olympic platform with 14 events contested over 10 days (with a two-day break in between). The networks and digital platforms of NBC Universal ...

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 ...

Other prizes include two gold medals at the Summer Universiade ... Chen Yanqing is one of the early stars of women's weightlifting at the Olympic Games after winning back-to-back gold medals.

Upcoming Olympic cycles include the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games and 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games. Here's what we know ...

Weightlifting can trace a proud Olympic history right back to the first Games of the modern era in Athens in 1896. Stars have been born over a timeframe of more than a century as the sport ...

If there's one thing I love about Olympic weightlifting, it is that I get to represent the country, and doing it at the Olympics is just such a special opportunity." Kitts is competing in the 102 ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Weightlifting - Men's +109kg - Medal Ceremony - Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan - August 4, 2021. Gold medalist Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia reacts. REUTERS/Edgard ...

The Marion Athletic Conference girls weightlifting team has crowned its champions and we have the storylines from the event ...

The Olympic Games are the greatest sporting event; they’re a celebration of athletic ability and skill on a global scale. The Olympics include any sport you can imagine, like basketball, fencing, ...

The International Olympic Committee has been retroactively stripping athletes of Olympic medals due to the reanalysis of drug tests from the past two Games, and the International Weightlifting ...

Elreen Ann Ando could well be the future of Philippine weightlifting, being the very lifter who denied Hidilyn Diaz another Olympic return. The question is whether her time is now.