Weightlifting

On June 7th, Kazakhstani weightlifter and 2009 94kg World Champion Vladimir Sedov put on a bizarre display at his country's national championship, declaring Ilya Ilyin a fraud, tossing his tshirt into the ... Continue Reading

Final Update: After a hard-fought Pan Am Championships, the U.S. men have earned one Olympic spot. USA Weightlifting has confirmed that spot will go to Kendrick Farris. The 2016 Rio Games will be Farris' ... Continue Reading

Sara Sigmundsdottir is a force to be reckoned with in CrossFit® competition — she's the reigning third fittest woman in the world — but her weightlifting prowess is also notable. In 2015, she represented ... Continue Reading

Last week, we highlighted some weightlifting techniques of yore. The split snatch, Continental clean, and clean & press were all used frequently back in the day, but have now gone by way of ... Continue Reading

For years, fans, athletes, and critics alike have wondered aloud if top CrossFitters would ever catch up to the ranks of world-class weightlifters. Now, a reigning CrossFit Games runner-up has qualified ... Continue Reading

Update: The live stream from Colombian TV below seems to have been discontinued (bummer). We'll be searching for another high-quality one in the meantime and will update this post if we find ... Continue Reading

In the latest reaction from the IWF doping allegations and rumors, Vladimir Sedov used his first (and only) attempt at Kazakh Nationals to make a big statement: He thinks Alexsandr Ivanov is the true 94kg ... Continue Reading

Weightlifting has come a long way since its Olympic debut in 1896. A quick scroll on Instagram will show athletes from around the world trying to perfect just two movements, the snatch and clean & ... Continue Reading

Over the past four years, few American weightlifters have been surrounded by as many controversial topics as Sarah Robles. Following a 7th place finish at the 2012 London Olympics in the +75kg category, ... Continue Reading

There's been speculation around the weightlifting world whether 2012 Olympic Champion Behdad Salimi could return from knee surgery in time for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Salimi — who injured his knee on a ... Continue Reading

Just a few days after 2016 Weightlifting Nationals, Mike Graber and I got 15 year old weightlifting phenom CJ Cummings on the phone and chatted about his life, his goals, and training. Just to note ... Continue Reading

Mohamed Ihab Youssef is certainly a weightlifter to watch closely heading into the Rio Olympics. The 25 year old Egyptian lifter placed second in the 69kg category at the 2014 World Weightlifting ... Continue Reading

BarBend and the RVA Open — one of the nation's premiere weightlifting competitions — are pleased to announce a new partnership that will bring top-level weightlifting to more fans than ever. And on July ... Continue Reading

The oldest World Record in international weightlifting (among senior competitors) has finally fallen. At the Fajr Cup IWF Grand Prix in Iran, 85kg lifter Kianoush Rostami clean & jerked 220 kilograms — ... Continue Reading

Update: The IWF has released a statement regarding the positive tests from London and Beijing, reiterating that there were 20 total (10 from each iteration of the Games) and that these included some ... Continue Reading

International weightlifting's superheavyweight category has been packed with news the last couple years, from Behdad Salimi's knee injury to Aleksey Lovchev's clean & jerk World Record (and subsequent ... Continue Reading

What sports give us the biggest advantage for weightlifting? From 2010 to 2011 I was the coach of Innercity Weightlifting (ICW) in Boston. Our group’s mission was to help at-risk youth get away from ... Continue Reading

If you want to watch one of the world's top weightlifting federations hold a stacked national championships, you're in luck: The Russian Weightlifting Championships are streaming for free on YouTube. The ... Continue Reading

On May 17th, news broke that several Russian weightlifters — including reigning World Champion and clean & jerk World Record holder Aleksey Lovchev — had received competition bans between four and ... Continue Reading

The first Women's World Weightlifting Championship was held in 1987, and women lifted at the Olympics for the first time at the 2000 Sydney Games. But while the sport's popularity has skyrocketed for ... Continue Reading

Iran's Kianoush Rostami has won two World Championships as an 85kg lifter, and he finished second at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston (oh, and we won Bronze at the 2012 London Olympics ... Continue Reading

If you're looking for a place to watch the 2016 Canadian (Senior) National Championships in weightlifting, you're in luck: The event is live-streamed on YouTube thanks to the British Columbia Weightlifting ... Continue Reading