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2025 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Results
The 2025 Pan American Weightlifting Championships (PAWC) occurred at the Coliseo Miguel Calero in Cali, Colombia, on July 13-18, 2025. The competition featured 13 countries scoring medals through throughout the contest in either the snatch, clean & jerk, and/or total. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lic. Beatriz Piron Oly (@beatrizpironoly) 2025…
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Getting a Grip on Deadlift Strength Standards, With Insight From a Competitive Weightlifter
We love the deadlift, and you should, too. Pulling weight from the floor strengthens your posterior chain (hips, glutes, hamstrings, and back), increases bone density, and reinforces one of the most fundamental movement patterns we engage in daily — the hip hinge. (1) Get your mitts around one of the best barbells and read on…
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The Differences Between Hip Contact vs. Thigh Contact in Weightlifting
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Weightlifting Blocks vs. the Hang: The Differences & When to Use Each
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What Are the Differences Between Powerlifting vs. Weightlifting?
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What Are Hang Lifts in Weightlifting? Plus, How to Use Them for More Strength
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Here’s Every American Weightlifter Who Has Won an Olympic Medal
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8 Quick Tips to Help You Nail Your First Weightlifting Workout
Weightlifting Basics
What Is Weightlifting?
Weightlifting is a weight-classed strength sport and Olympic Games event. In weightlifting competitions, athletes perform two barbell-only exercises; the snatch and the clean & jerk.
Both events entail moving a loaded barbell from the floor to being held overhead at arm’s length. Athletes who compete in weightlifting are ranked on the sum of their heaviest successful snatch and clean & jerk, which is called a Total. Out of all major strength sports, weightlifting is widely considered to be the most intricate to learn, due to the complex techniques of its two movements.
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Il Gyong Kim (59KG) Achieves Clean & Jerk and Total Records at 2024 IWF World Championships
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024, concluded with vastly different record books than before it began. witnessed the shattering of more than a handful of world records. The records scored in Bahrain will likely endure the test of time as new weight categories will take effect in June 2025. In…
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Ruslan Nurudinov (109KG) Sets World Record Clean & Jerk In Manama, Bahrain
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2024 IWF World Championships Results
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Suk Ri (64KG) Scores Two World Records at 2024 IWF World Championships
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Zhao Jinhong (45KG) Achieves Two Records at 2024 IWF World Championships
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Karlos Nasar (89KG) Sets Snatch and Total World Records at 2024 IWF World Championships
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IWF Approves New Weightlifting Categories Starting June 2025
