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Matthias Steiner (German pronunciation: [maˈtiːas ˈʃtaɪnɐ] ⓘ; born 25 August 1982) is a retired Austrian-German weightlifter, and Olympic gold medalist. [1]As a native Austrian, he competed for Austria internationally from 1998 to 2005, in European Championships, World Championships, and the 2004 Summer Olympics.
She set new Olympic weightlifting records by lifting 127 kg in the clean and jerk and lifting a total weight of 224 kg. [ 13 ] [ 51 ] Diaz's achievements at the 2020 Summer Olympics were impressive, as she was previously stranded in Malaysia from February 2020 until July 2021, due to travel restrictions imposed by governments to contain the ...
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.
Twenty-five months after a freak accident nearly killed him, Elija Godwin is in Tokyo as an Olympian. ... Before he fought back from being impaled by a javelin to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic ...
Media related to Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics. London2012.com. at the UK Government Web Archive (archived 28 February 2013) Official results book – Weightlifting. London2012.com. at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 May 2013) Results by Events.
Anderson's early record in Olympic Weightlifting was similarly impressive: from an 800 lb (362.9 kg) three lift (clean and press, snatch, clean and jerk) total in Chattanooga, he progressed to 875 lb (396.9 kg) on March 21, 1953 and again to 940 lbs (426.4 kg) at the Junior National Championships in Cleveland, Ohio on May 17.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics he ranked 5th in the snatch as well as the clean & jerk in the 56 kg category, lifting a total of 280 kg, [7] and finished 5th overall.. In the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, Figueroa failed to make a lift in the snatch category, he was unable to lift the bar from the floor in all three attempts.
Terence 'Terry' Todd (January 1, 1938 – July 7, 2018) was an American powerlifter, and Olympic weightlifter. [2] Todd was co-founder of the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports, co-editor of Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture, and creator and event director of the Arnold Strongman Classic.