Weightlifting has made some significant strides toward rehabilitating its international prestige, but the sport continues to be mired in drug-related controversies. On Monday, June 12, 2023, the ... Continue Reading
2023 African Weightlifting Championships Results
The 2023 African Weightlifting Championships occurred on May 11-20, 2023, in Tunis, Tunisia. All 20 bodyweight categories were contested (10 Men's and 10 Women's). Twenty-one countries were represented in ... Continue Reading
2023 Pan American Junior Weightlifting Championships Results
The 2023 Pan American Junior Weightlifting Championships took place on May 10-15, 2023, in Manizales, Colombia. Ten weight categories for the Junior Men's division and Junior Women's division were ... Continue Reading
2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships Full Results
Continental weightlifting in Asia has flown under the radar for the past year or so, but things were not low key at the 2023 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Asian Weightlifting Championships ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Tian Tao (89KG) Sets 222-Kilogram World Record Clean & Jerk at 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships
The ink had hardly dried before it was wiped away. On May 10, 2023, Tian Tao returned to the weightlifting stage for the first time in over three years at the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships (AWC). ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Li Dayin (89KG) Sets Snatch and Total World Records at 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships
Li Dayin may be the next big thing in Chinese men's weightlifting. The 25-year-old powerhouse made a confident and commanding appearance in the 89-kilogram division at the 2023 Asian Weightlifting ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Liao Guifang (71KG) Sets 120-Kilogram Snatch World Record at 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships
China's women weightlifters are the single most dominant competitive force in the modern history of the sport — and that's no exaggeration. On May 9, 2023, China logged yet another triple-gold-medal ... Continue Reading
World-Record-Holding Weightlifter Karlos Nasar Reportedly Suffers Serious Leg Injury
Only a few short weeks after dominating the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships (EWC), Karlos Nasar has reportedly suffered a debilitating injury that may hamper his future in weightlifting. ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships
The 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships (AWC) are scheduled for May 5-13, 2023, in Jinju, South Korea. The contest will feature twenty weight categories — 10 male and 10 female — in the central city of ... Continue Reading
2023 European Weightlifting Championships Full Results
In 2022, the European Weightlifting Championships (EWC) was not a qualifying event for weightlifters aiming at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Things are different in 2023; this year's EWC, which took ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Karlos Nasar (89KG) Sets Multiple New World Records at 2023 European Weightlifting Championships
"There's a reason they call them the 'Unbelievable Bulgarians'," exclaimed the commentators shortly after 18-year-old weightlifter Karlos Nasar set four new World Records with a single lift at the 2023 ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the 2023 IWF European Weightlifting Championships
A summer full of spectacular weightlifting kicks off in Yerevan, Armenia, with the commencement of the 2023 International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) European Weightlifting Championships ... Continue Reading
2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Full Results & Highlights
With only a year and some change until the commencement of the 2024 Olympic Games, the landscape of international weightlifting is beginning to reveal who has the best shot at making it to Paris. The best ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Jourdan Delacruz (49KG) Sets 112-Kilogram Clean & Jerk American Record at 2023 Pan American Championships
The United States tends to do very, very well at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships, thanks in no small part to the power and grace of weightlifters like Jourdan Delacruz. On Mar. 27, 2023, ... Continue Reading
Here Is Team USA’s Roster for the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships
The 2023 Pan American Championships (PAC) will occur from March 25 through April 2, 2023, in Bariloche, Argentina. The USA will be represented with the maximum-sized team of 20 athletes — 10 male and 10 ... Continue Reading
Watch Weightlifter Artyom Antropov (102KG) Squat 322 Kilograms (710 Pounds)
Mass moves mass. On Mar. 11, 2023, weightlifter Artyom Antropov posted a training video to social media. In it, the 23-year-old Olympic lifter back squatted a mind-boggling 322 kilograms, or 708.4 pounds. ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Clarence Kennedy Compares His “Natty and Enhanced” Squat Strength
On Feb.15, 2023, weightlifter Clarence Kennedy posted a YouTube video titled "Natty vs Enhanced (Squat Numbers)." The footage depicts Kennedy squatting his prior 1-rep max for a set of 10 reps, with the ... Continue Reading
9-Year-Old Rory van Ulft (40KG) Becomes the Youngest Person Ever to Clean & Jerk Twice Their Bodyweight In Competition
Aurora "Rory" van Ulft is unlike any other athlete in the world. She scores the weights that rival the most elite weightlifters on the planet and is not yet aged to double digits. On Jan. 21, 2023, at the ... Continue Reading
IWF Releases 2024 Paris Olympic Games Qualification Ranking Leaderboards
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are scheduled for July 26 through August 11, 2024, in Paris, France, and will feature an athlete quota of 10,500 of the world's best. The stadiums holding athletic contests ... Continue Reading
Lu Xiaojun Provisionally Suspended Due to Apparent Anti-Doping Rule Violation
On Dec. 22, 2022, the International Testing Agency (ITA) announced that it notified three-time Olympic weightlifting gold medalist Lu Xiaojun of China of an apparent anti-doping rule ... Continue Reading
International Weightlifting Federation Announces Results of Athletes’ Commission Elections
The structure of weightlifting's governance has changed. On Dec. 16, 2022, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) released a presser detailing the results of its historic Athletes' Commission ... Continue Reading
2022 IWF World Weightlifting Championships Full Results & Highlights
A fantastic year of Olympic lifting was capped off with the 2022 International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) World Weightlifting Championships (WWC). This year's World Championships, held in Bogotá, ... Continue Reading
Watch Women’s Weightlifter Li Wenwen (+87KG) Crush a 220-Kilogram Back Squat for 3 Reps
Li Wenwen is a world-class weightlifter. So much so that on Dec. 15, 2022, she handily outdid every other +87-kilogram woman in the world at the 2022 International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) World ... Continue Reading
American Weightlifter Sarah Robles (+87KG) Wins Silver Snatch Medal at 2022 World Championships
Sarah Robles is reliable. On Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, Robles brought home another weightlifting medal for the United States when she snatched 127 kilograms (279.9 pounds) in the Women's +87-kilogram Group ... Continue Reading
