Olympic lifting has become a cornerstone of modern fitness, blending raw power, coordination, and athletic performance. For ...

Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...

MICHAEL REAMS stood a few inches in front of my barbell. My job was to lift the bar from the floor over my head into a squat — without hitting him. I quaked a little inside. But Reams is not someone ...

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 ...

Another year, another one for the Vero Beach girls weightlifting team to look back on with memories as the program scored a state championship in the snatch, the first year the event was instituted ...

Tokyo Olympics silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who is taking it easy since returning to action following a six-month injury lay-off, is targeting a lift of above 90kg in snatch in next ...

On October 2, 2023, Mirabai Chanu, one of India's greatest lifters, landed in New Delhi from Hangzhou, where she'd competed in the Asian Games. A freak injury had cut short her participation in the ...

IMAGE: In the junior men's 79kg, Bharali registered record lifts across snatch, clean and jerk and total to clinch gold with 326kg with record performances in all three. Photograph: Kind courtesy ...