These world championships are for non-Olympic weight classes. Wrestlers who competed at the Paris Games are not eligible.

I recently sat down with an old friend, Sean Waxman. Sean’s an Olympic weighting coach turned high school football coach, and we got into some real talk about ...

This annual celebration, established by the IWF, takes place on a significant date as it marks the day the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reinstated weightlifting to the Olympic programme ...

Purpose This systematic review was conducted to evaluate the effect of Olympic weightlifting (OW) on vertical jump (VJ) height compared to a control condition, traditional resistance training and ...

The most successful boxing nation at the Paris Olympics has joined the new governing body that aims to keep the sport in the ...

Weightlifting shoes are designed with a specific purpose: To support safe and efficient anatomical positioning during the Olympic lifts, which include the clean-and-jerk and the snatch.

Hripsime Khurshudyan is an Armenian weightlifter who has won numerous medals in international championships. Her Instagram bio summarizes it best: “2009 world senior medalist, world youth medalist, ...