Weightlifting

Olivia Reeves lifted her way into weightlifting history on Friday, winning the second Olympic gold medal for Team USA since women began competing in 2000.

Olivia Reeves wins weightlifting gold in women’s 71kg session at 2024 Paris Olympics

In the dramatic men’s 89kg weightlifting session at the 2024 Paris Olympics, an Italian weightlifter nearly missed the bronze due to the sport’s controversial press out rule. The rule defined by the International Weightlifting Federation as “incorrect movement” applies to both Olympic weightlifting’s two events, the snatch and the clean & jerk. The snatch involves lifting the bar from...

21-year-old Olivia Reeves is aiming to break a world record at the Paris Olympics

American weightlifter Jourdan Delacruz finished 5th in the women’s 49kg competition after failing to rank in 2020.

After finishing last at the Tokyo Olympics, Texas native Jourdan Delacruz rebounded to finish fifth in women’s 49kg weightlifting at the Paris Olympics.

China won another back-to-back gold at Olympic weightlifting and Team USA Jourdan Delacruz redeemed her performance from the last Olympics. Hours after her teammate Hampton Morris made history with his third-place finish attempt at a world record, Delacruz fought out a field of strong competition in the women’s 49kg weight class, and improved upon her Tokyo 2020 performance, but unfortunately…

U.S. weightlifter Hampton Morris won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics and coffee had a big part to play.

An American weightlifter lifted nearly three times his body weight, making history on his way to the podium at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The first weightlifting event at the Paris Olympics started with a technical delay for about 20 minutes, but eventually, 12 men weighing under 61 kg from 12 countries stepped on the platform. Team USA’s Hampton Morris is among the medal favorites in the weight class. He weighs just under 134.5 lbs but he’s able to lift nearly 280 lbs in…

The strongest sport at the Olympics is set to take stage on Wednesday, Aug. 7, in Paris where five Americans eye the podium. Olympic weightlifting, simply known to athletes as weightlifting, is not to be confused with weight lifting, the act of lifting weights; or powerlifting, a completely different strength sport. Weightlifters have three attempts to complete each of the…

Olympic weightlifting is back for the 2024 Paris Games. From rules to events and medal history, here’s everything to know about the competition.