The Chinese weightlifting team has dominated the global stage, with five of their six athletes clinching gold medals at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Their remarkable performance at ... Continue Reading
IPF Bans Stiff Knee Sleeves
On April 4, 2025, the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) banned stiff knee sleeves from their sanctioned competitions. Banned Knee Sleeves The IPF Executive Commission convened in Luxembourg ... Continue Reading
World Record Weightlifter Karlos Nasar Trains Like a Bodybuilder
Bodybuilding and Olympic weightlifting are two distinct disciplines, each with unique training methods and goals. Bodybuilding prioritizes aesthetics, focusing on muscle ... Continue Reading
Olympian Joe Kovacs and Mitchell Hooper Teach You How To Properly Jerk
The overhead jerk, a combination of strength, power, and technique, is a cornerstone of weightlifting. In a mid-January 2025 collaboration, 2023 World’s Strongest Man and 2024 Strongest Man on ... Continue Reading
Won Ju Ri (67KG) Scores Clean & Jerk Record at 2024 IWF World Championships
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, ended on Dec. 15, 2024. The competition of the world's best weightlifters showcased their immense strength and ... Continue Reading
Yan Li (+87KG) Demolished The Previous Snatch World Record at 2024 IWF World Championships
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024, featured some of the most memorable world record overhauls in recent memory. ... Continue Reading
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 ... Continue Reading
Ruslan Nurudinov (109KG) Sets World Record Clean & Jerk In Manama, Bahrain
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024, witnessed the shattering of more than a handful of world records. With only six months ... Continue Reading
2024 IWF World Championships Results
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships took place in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024. The competition featured weight categories that will cease to exist in June ... Continue Reading
Suk Ri (64KG) Scores Two World Records at 2024 IWF World Championships
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024, has continued to blaze new pages in the record books before new weight categories become ... Continue Reading
Zhao Jinhong (45KG) Achieves Two Records at 2024 IWF World Championships
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024, has been a cataclysm of world records. Athletes learned that new weight categories were ... Continue Reading
Karlos Nasar (89KG) Sets Snatch and Total World Records at 2024 IWF World Championships
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships took place in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024. It was the first major international contest held since the confirmation of ... Continue Reading
IWF Approves New Weightlifting Categories Starting June 2025
Olympic Weightlifting will have new bodyweight categories for the first time in seven years. On Dec. 5, 2024, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) approved the Innovation Commission's proposal ... Continue Reading
Karlos Nasar Smashes 3 Unofficial Records Ahead of 2024 World Weightlifting Championships
Karlos Nasar will probably win the 2024 World Weightlifting Championships (WWC). Nasar, 20, won gold at the 2024 Olympics this summer and set a few new world records in the process. At the tail ... Continue Reading
Who Is the Next Lasha Talakhadze?
Lasha Talakhadze is commonly regarded as one of the best weightlifters of all time — he is unequivocally the strongest, having lifted more weight in the snatch and clean & jerk, the sport’s two ... Continue Reading
“Exactly What We Need”: USA Weightlifting’s National Team Program Makes Big Promises for American Athletes
American weightlifting has momentum. After the best performance in its modern history at the 2024 Olympics, Team USA is poised to perform even better over the coming years. The NTP, designed by ... Continue Reading
Rizki Juniansyah Is the Second-Best Jerker in Weightlifting History
In April, Rizki Juniansyah made a big splash in the weightlifting world when he sniped one of Indonesia’s athlete slots from teammate Rahmat Erwin Abdullah. Juniansyah went on to win the 73-kilogram event ... Continue Reading
Italian Stallion: Antonino Pizzolato Smashes 180KG Snatch
Antonino Pizzolato is, maybe, Italy’s best weightlifter. Italian weightlifters floundered at the 2024 Olympics in Paris after raising their profile throughout the pre-Games qualification period, but ... Continue Reading
World’s First Weightlifting Museum Opens in China
2024 has been a great year for weightlifting — there was a little event in Paris back in August called the Olympic Games, and before that, the IWF World Cup proved to be one of the most exhilarating ... Continue Reading
Exclusive: Inside Team China’s Youth Weightlifting Industry
Back in June, Hillary Tran went a little bit viral. By posting an Instagram Reel — as of Oct. 2024, it’s up to 4.8 million hits — showing some of Team China’s youth athlete development camps in action, ... Continue Reading
2024 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships Results
The 2024 Olympics have come and gone, but weightlifting is still rocking around the world. September plays host to the 2024 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships (JWWC), where the rising stars of ... Continue Reading
USA’s Ella Nicholson Dominates, Sets Records at 2024 Junior World Weightlifting Championships
Team USA’s weightlifting industry has a bright future. American weightlifters had their best-ever performance at the Olympic Games this August in Paris. Just a few months later, the States’ Junior athletes ... Continue Reading
Tuna Meatballs for Breakfast: Olympic Champion Karlos Nasar’s Insane Weightlifting Diet
20-year-old Olympic Champion Karlos Nasar has an absolutely bonkers weightlifting diet. Nasar, who won gold for Bulgaria at the 2024 Olympics in the 89-kilogram division, takes every aspect of his training ... Continue Reading
Karlos Nasar Unpaid for Olympic Gold, World Records — May Miss 2024 World Championships
Despite an Olympic gold medal and multiple world records, Karlos Nasar has not been paid for his efforts by his home country and may even miss out on the upcoming 2024 World Weightlifting Championships in ... Continue Reading