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.

some of the strongest athletes in the world will come together to compete for who can lift the most weights for the longest time in hopes of getting to gold at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

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.

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 ...

Where are the 2028 Summer Olympics? The 2028 Summer Games will ... taekwondo and wrestling. Weightlifting will be held at a ...

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

Taiwan’s Hsu Shu-Ching wins weightlifting gold in women’s 53kg ... of South Korea wins bronze with a lift of 199 kgs. The 2016 Olympic Games run from Aug. 5 through Aug. 21 in Rio de Janeiro.

He’s a hard worker, disciplined and a quick learner — all of which was needed as he went from interested in the sport of Olympic weightlifting to a No. 1 national ranking in less than two years.