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
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Pictogram for Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics
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Mohammad Reza Barari, an Iranian lifter, snatching at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil
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Lidia Valentín of Spain performing a clean at the 2012 Olympic Games in London
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The 110 kg division weightlifting winners at the 1980 Summer Olympics, held in Moscow
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Knurling on an Olympic barbell
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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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