The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced today that International Olympic Committee (IOC) retesting of London samples has returned positive tests for 11 weightlifters. This is the latest ... Continue Reading
Russian Official: Tatiana Kashirina and Anastasia Romanova Out of Rio Olympics
In a move confirming what's been suspected since earlier this week, Alexander Zhukov — Head of the Russian Olympic Committee — has confirmed weightlifters Tatiana Kashirina and Anastasia Romanova won't be ... Continue Reading
Sohrab Moradi Snatches 190kg, Two Kilos Above World Record
When we last caught up with Sohrab Moradi, he was doing some fairly ridiculous things, like unofficially (!) breaking the clean & jerk world record in the 94kg weight class. Now, the Iranian lifter is ... Continue Reading
IOC: Russians Can Compete in Rio, But Ruling Keeps Out Prominent Weightlifters
In the long awaited follow-up to last week’s McLaren Report, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that due to the urgency of the matter, Russian athletes will be allowed to compete ... Continue Reading
Aleksey Torokhtiy Hits 255kg Power Jerk in CrossFit Games Vendor Village
Call him a perfectionist, because 245kg was simple not enough. Just a couple weeks after hitting well over 500 pounds on the power jerk in training, 2012 Olympic gold medalist (105kg) Aleksey ... Continue Reading
Sinclair Coefficient – Formula and What It Means
For a sport that seems like it should be super simple, weightlifting sure has made itself pretty complicated. In theory, weightlifting is nothing more than lifting as much weight as you can in both the ... Continue Reading
World Anti-Doping Agency Wants Russian Athletes (Including Lifters) Banned from Rio
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has already moved to ban Russia's weightlifters from international competition, a sanction many assumed would take effect following the 2016 Rio Olympic ... Continue Reading
Olympic Legend Pyrros Dimas to Join USA Weightlifting As Technical Director
In a new announcement from USA Weightlifting, it's been confirmed that three-time Olympic gold medalist (and one-time Olympic bronze medalist) Pyrros Dimas will be joining the organization as ... Continue Reading
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Aleksey Lovchev’s Suspension Appeal Denied, Responds with 215kg Snatch
After setting a new world record clean & jerk at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston, Russian superheavyweight Aleksey Lovchev was suspended for a positive doping test. Lovchev ... Continue Reading
Kazakhstan Announces Rio Olympic Weightlifting Team
Doping retests have dramatically altered the weightlifting field heading into Rio, and with several Olympic champions testing positive from Beijing and London retests, Kazakhstan was among the nations most ... Continue Reading
Adidas’ Leistung Lifting Shoe Is 30% Off Until Midnight on Amazon
It's only available in Men's sizes, and the offer expires at midnight (of July 12th). But if you act now, you can get a pair of Adidas' Leistung weightlifting shoes for 30% off through Amazon as a Prime ... Continue Reading
Watch the RVA Open & Invitational, Live Streaming for FREE July 16-17th
Now in its 5th year, the RVA Open has become one of the nation's top weightlifting competitions. And this year, you can watch the entire thing LIVE — and for FREE — through our new partnership with the ... Continue Reading
Kendrick Farris Goes Vegan in Prep for Rio Olympics
Louisiana outlet KTBS recently put up a short profile on three-time Olympian Kendrick Farris. While Farris' accomplishments are impressive — he competed in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games and will be ... Continue Reading
Mart Seim Puts the Instagram Fitness World to Shame, Does 260kg Walk & Front Squat
Mart Seim — the Estonian superheavyweight lifter with crazy hops and a 400kg back squat — put a new twist on a popular Instagram fitness trope. In the video, Seim front rack-walks and then pause squats ... Continue Reading
Two More Beijing Weightlifting Medalists Suspended After Retests
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced three additional weightlifting competitors at the 2008 Beijing Olympics — including one silver medalist and one bronze medalist — have tested ... Continue Reading
Watch the Barbell Complex that Inspired a Thousand Klokov Imitators
It's been more than four years since Dmitry Klokov unleashed this beast of a barbell complex on the world, and it's still showing up in gym workouts and on the Instagram accounts of aspiring lifters ... Continue Reading
Sohrab Moradi Unofficially Breaks Clean & Jerk World Record (234kg at 94kg Bodyweight)
Iranian weightlifter Sohrab Moradi may not be a household name among Western fans of the sport, but he's currently one of the world's best 94kg lifters — and perhaps the frontrunner heading into the 2016 ... Continue Reading
Sara Sigmundsdóttir Does 50 Clean & Jerks at 90 Kilos, Pushes the Envelope of Pain
Sara Sigmundsdottir is on a mission, and after winning the Meridian Super Regional, the Icelandic athlete looked stronger than ever headed into the 2016 CrossFit Games. Of course, she looked even stronger ... Continue Reading
Dmitry Klokov Announces Second Annual “Power Weekend” in Moscow
2008 Olympic Silver Medalist and everyone's favorite weightlifting ham Dmitry Klokov has announced his second annual "Power Weekend," and the event is already shaping up to be a strength sport fan's dream. ... Continue Reading
The Glory of the Soviet Union Belonged to Weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev
If the Soviet Union could be exemplified in one human, that human would be weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev. With his accomplishments, attitude, and sheer size and strength, Alekseyev embodied all that the ... Continue Reading
We Can’t Stop Watching This Weightlifter’s Missed Clean-into-Face Slap
Travis Elliott is a member of coach Travis Mash's seemingly endless team of up-and-coming American weightlifters. And while he's not doing some of the crazy numbers as Mash's other weightlifters — yet ... Continue Reading
Why the Movie “Bigger, Stronger, Faster*” Is More Important Than Ever
It's been eight years since Chris Bell released his first feature-length film, but "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*" remains the best look into the strength athlete's temptations, challenges, and goals ever ... Continue Reading
7 Feats of Strength and Balance That Are As Impressive As They Are Head Scratching
Before we get into this, lets get one unavoidable comment out of the way: aaaaaaaand THIS is why people hate on CrossFit. There. It's done. Let's all move on now, okay? The point of this ... Continue Reading