The lifter then uses power and balance to whip the bar ... (IWF) approved a new slate of weight classes for the Paris Olympics, reducing the total number of medal events from 14 to 10. The five men’s ...

Similarly to other Olympic sports like gymnastics and track and field (shotput), chalk is often used by weightlifters in order to eliminate moisture and help the bar rotate freely in the grip of the ...

Hiromi Miyake is a double Olympic weightlifting medallist from Japan. She won silver at London 2012 and then a bronze at Rio 2016. Miyake has been a member of the IWF Athlete Committee ...

The International Weightlifting Federation still has some heavy lifting to do to return to the good graces of the International Olympic Committee ... is vice chair of the IWF athletes commission ...

one 20-year-old champion weightlifter has been making gains in Georgia in hopes of competing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. "It's been very, very busy," Hampton Morris, a weightlifting Jr. World ...

USA Weightlifting is set to nominate Ursula Papandrea to serve as the next president of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) according ... the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo ...

THAILAND, — A young man from Marietta just lifted himself closer to a spot on the 2024 USA Olympic weightlifting team after breaking records in Thailand. Hampton Morris, a 20-year-old coached by ...

The barbell snatch is one of the most well-known weightlifting movements. Here’s a guide on how to do it, even if you’re a lifting newbie. The phrase “olympic weightlifting” might seem a ...

India's weightlifting spearhead Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has more or less confirmed her Paris Olympic Games 2024 berth, after finishing third in the women's 49kg Group B event of the IWF World Cup ...

The rising star will get a chance to do exactly that in Paris as Sarno secured her Olympic berth in the women’s 71kg class following the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup in ...

MANILA, Philippines — After bombing out of the 2024 Paris Olympics contention, Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo will spend a “much-needed family time” with her husband and coach Julius Naranjo.