Indian weightlifter Jeremy Lalrinnunga clinched a silver medal in the snatch category of the 67kg division at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Jinju, South Korea. However, he faced setbacks in ...

Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...

MICHAEL REAMS stood a few inches in front of my barbell. My job was to lift the bar from the floor over my head into a squat — without hitting him. I quaked a little inside. But Reams is not someone ...

Harjinder Kaur set new snatch, clean and jerk and total records on her way to the women’s 71kg title in the National weightlifting championships here on Wednesday. Harjinder aggregated 220kg to post a ...

Olivia Reeves put an incredible performance at the 2026 Arnold Sports Festival, achieving new Snatch and Total American ...

Former world champion Mirabai Chanu made a splendid return to the weightlifting arena, setting a new world record in clean and jerk while also bettering her own national record en route winning a ...

When Mirabai Chanu steps on the dais to make her first lift in the Tokyo Olympics, she will also be lifting a billion expectations with it. What are these expectations? The hope is that she can end ...

Olympic weightlifting is more complex than simply lifting a heavy object and placing it back down. This test of human strength and power has been part of the Olympic Games since its inception in ...