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 ...

LAKELAND — Ava Jowdy partially attributes her leg strength to power skating, as opposed to powerlifting. More than a decade's worth of hockey played on the outskirts of Boston gave Jowdy a base upon ...

Park Hye-jeong won three gold medals at the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships on Saturday in Førde, Norway, taking the women’s super heavyweight title after overcoming back pain.

South Korea’s weightlifting star Park Hye-jung (22, Goyang City Hall) claimed the top spot at the World Weightlifting ...

There are 61 athletes in the five women’s weightlifting classes at the Paris Olympics. Mary Theisen-Lappen is the oldest one. At 33, Theisen-Lappen doesn’t have the orthodox background of a lifter who ...

Hubbard https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/nz-weightlifter-hubbard-become-first-transgender-athlete-compete-games-2021-06-21 is set to become the first ...

LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Ukraine's Oleksiy Torokhtiy capitalised on the absence of leading rivals to win Olympic gold in the 105kg weightlifting division on Monday, beating off the challenge of ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 05: Silver medalist Tatiana Kashirina of Russia waves after the Women’s 75kg Weightlifting on Day 9 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at ExCeL on August 5, 2012 in London, ...

BEIJING, Aug 16 (Reuters) - South Korea's Jang Mi-ran claimed the unofficial title of strongest woman in the world at the Olympics on Saturday with the weightlifting gold medal in the ...