Weightlifting has been a mainstay of the Commonwealth Games since the 1950s and never fails to provide drama. Since 2002, para powerlifting has also joined the Games – initially under the weightlifting banner but recently as a discipline in its own right. Recent editions of the sports at the Games have been dominated by IndiaContinue reading “Weightlifting and Powerlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games”
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Weightlifting at the 2020 Olympics
The podiums for the Weightlifting events at this summer’s Olympics will have both a familiar and yet different feel to them, if such a thing is possible. The familiarity will come from China. Chinese lifters won 5 golds at the 2016 games and could easily match – even potentially comfortably exceed – that record thisContinue reading “Weightlifting at the 2020 Olympics”
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