Olympic weightlifting
Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting, often simply referred to as weightlifting, is a sport in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
Olympic Weightlifting Media
Mohammad Reza Barari, an Iranian lifter, snatching at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil
Lidia Valentín of Spain performing a clean at the 2012 Olympic Games in London
The 110 kg division weightlifting winners at the 1980 Summer Olympics, held in Moscow
Knurling on an Olympic barbell
An Olympic lifter, Jang Mi-ran, holding a barbell loaded with red 25 kg bumper plates, held in place with a collar. Note the lifter's taped wrists and thumbs, her weightlifting shoes, and her weightlifting belt.
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