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While the sport is officially named "weightlifting", the terms "Olympic weightlifting" and "Olympic-style weightlifting" are often used to distinguish it from the other sports and events that involve the lifting of weights, such as powerlifting, weight training, and strongman events. Similarly, the snatch and the clean and jerk are known as the ...
Unified Team: Leonid Taranenko Unified Team: Manfred Nerlinger Germany: 1996 Atlanta details: Andrei Chemerkin Russia: Ronny Weller Germany: Stefan Botev Australia: 2000 Sydney details: Hossein Rezazadeh Iran: Ronny Weller Germany: Andrei Chemerkin Russia: 2004 Athens details: Hossein Rezazadeh Iran: Viktors Ščerbatihs Latvia: Velichko ...
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 .
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
Games Gold Silver Bronze 56 kg details: Charles Vinci United States Yoshinobu Miyake Japan Esmaeil Elmkhah Iran 60 kg details: Yevgeny Minayev Soviet Union Isaac Berger United States
USA Weightlifting, otherwise known as USAW, is the national governing body overseeing the sport of weightlifting in the United States. [1] USAW is a member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), responsible for conducting weightlifting programs throughout the country, and a member of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
The weightlifting competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only. The competition was held from 17 to 21 October 1968 at the Teatro de los Insurgentes. [1] It also counted as 1968 World Weightlifting Championships. The Soviet Union finished first in the medal table after winning three ...
The weightlifting events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of five weight classes. The competitions were held on Saturday, 30 July 1932 and on Sunday, 31 July 1932. The competitions were held on Saturday, 30 July 1932 and on Sunday, 31 July 1932.