The strongest sport at the Olympics is set to take stage on Wednesday, Aug. 7, in Paris where five Americans eye the podium. Olympic weightlifting, simply known to athletes as weightlifting, is not to ...

The Durango Barbell Club is back, helping athletes develop overall strength and explosiveness by focusing on the two Olympic weight lifting styles: the clean and jerk and the snatch. Matt Page and his ...

Weightlifter Hampton Morris made history on Wednesday, becoming the first American man to win an Olympic weightlifting medal since 1984. Morris won bronze after hoisting a combined weight of 298 ...

In 2022, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced a reduction in the total number of Olympic medal events from 14 at the Tokyo Games to 10 at the Paris Games. Four weight categories ...

Mary Theisen-Lappen followed her Olympic debut with her second podium finish at the World Weightlifting Championships.

China won another back-to-back gold at Olympic weightlifting and Team USA Jourdan Delacruz redeemed her performance from the last Olympics. Hours after her teammate Hampton Morris made history with ...

UW student Emma Rogers, from Pinedale, competes in Olympic-style weightlifting and is ranked nationally as the second-best weightlifter in her age group. (Ryan Pavia Photo) While the world’s eyes have ...