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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.
NBC Olympics is the commercial name for the NBC Sports-produced broadcasts of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games as shown in the United States on NBCUniversal platforms. They include the NBC broadcast network and many of the company's cable networks; Spanish language network Telemundo; and streaming on the NBC Sports app, NBCOlympics.com, and Peacock.
Weightlifting has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the 1920 Summer Olympics, in Antwerp, Belgium, as well as twice before then. It debuted at the 1896 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, and was also an event at the 1904 Games.
Li Fabin of China defended his Olympic weightlifting title after going in as the overwhelming favorite to repeat. The 31-year-old set a Games snatch record by lifting 143 kilograms (315 pounds) on ...
Reeves set an Olympic record on Friday in the snatch, lifting 117 kg (258 pounds). In total, she lifted 262 kg (578 pounds) to beat out Colombia's Mari Leivis Sanchez (silver) and Ecuador's Angie ...
Weightlifter Hampton Morris made history on Wednesday, becoming the first American man to win an Olympic weightlifting medal since 1984. Morris won bronze after hoisting a combined weight of 298 ...
Doping in weightlifting was highlighted during the Games due to historic problems in the sport. [5] [6] Due to corruption, [7] failed reforms of the International Weightlifting Federation, [8] and doping problems, the IOC is threatening to drop weightlifting entirely from the Olympics unless substantial reforms are made to the sport. [9]
Olympic Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [32] Clean & Jerk 102.5 kg Tara Nott: 21 July 2000 USA Olympic Tryouts New Orleans, United States [33] Total 185 kg Tara Nott: 21 July 2000 USA Olympic Tryouts New Orleans, United States [34] 53 kg Snatch 87 kg Cortney Batchelor: 17 March 2017 American Open Series I Reno, United States [35] Clean & Jerk 113 kg