It's time for the world's strongest athletes to show how much they can lift. Olympic weightlifting — also referred to as just weightlifting — will be on the cards for the 2024 Paris Games.

PARIS — Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia has won third consecutive Olympic title in the heaviest weightlifting division, taking gold in the men's +102 kilograms on Saturday. Talakhadze won gold in the ...

Ancient Greek weightlifter Bybon went down in history for the feat of lifting a 150kg stone, Milo of Croton built his strength by carrying a growing cow up a hill for weeks and now there is Lasha ...

PARIS, France — Chattanooga's Olivia Reeves secured her first Olympic medal in the women's 71kg weightlifting competition in the Paris Olympics, setting a new Olympic record. Twenty-one-year-old ...

PARIS (AP) — Olivia Reeves tried treating the Olympics like just another competition. It didn’t work. It didn’t matter, either. Nerves or no nerves, Reeves won the United States’ first Olympic gold ...

The sport faces significant uncertainty due to repeated adjustments to the bodyweight divisions by the International ...

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Olivia Reeves won her first world weightlifting title, four months after becoming the first American to take Olympic gold in the sport since 2000. Reeves, 21, won the 71kg division at worlds in Manama ...

A 17-year-old Filipino-Australian has won gold in the national 2025 Australian Weightlifting Federation (AWF) Youth and Under ...