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 ...

Multiple-time World Championships medallist Mirabai Chanu registered a combined lift of 205kg (89kg in snatch + 116kg in clean and jerk), setting new national marks in snatch, clean and jerk and total ...

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, ...

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 ...

Thailand's Sukanya Srisurat achieved world standards in the snatch, clean and jerk and total to secure a hat-trick of women's 55 kilograms gold medals on day three of the 2018 IWF World Championships ...

Olympic weightlifting is more complex than simply lifting a heavy object and placing it back down. This test of human strength and power has been part of the Olympic Games since its inception in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...