Must be worn outside the athlete's clothes can be a maximum of 12cm in width. Similarly to other Olympic sports like gymnastics and track and field (shotput), chalk is often used by weightlifters in ...

Strength and hypertrophy training may be my main style of training, but as T3’s Active Writer (the title kind of gives it away), I love keeping active, taking on new challenges, and Olympic ...

The barbell snatch is one of the most well-known weightlifting movements. Here’s a guide on how to do it, even if you’re a lifting newbie. The phrase “olympic weightlifting” might seem a ...

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.

To qualify in weightlifting at the Paris Olympics, an athlete must rank in the top 10 of his or her weight class based on the official International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Olympic ...

Men's over 105kg final (snatch, clean/jerk, total): 1. Hossein Rezazadeh (Iran) 212.5 (world record), 260.0; 472.5 (world record) 2. Ronny Weller (Germany) 210.0, 257.5; 467.5 3. Ashot Danielyan ...

Wrong. Olympic weightlifting ultimately comes down to technique – how quickly can you drop underneath the barbell in a snatch or rack your elbows underneath the barbell in a clean? Of course ...