Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the Olympics has truly evolved.
It has featured at every Olympic Games bar three (1900, 1908, 1912) since the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896.
But it was not until Sydney 2000 that the women’s competition was introduced.
Weightlifting tests athletes' explosive strength across seven weight classes

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Relive Weightlifting champion Hossein Rezazadeh's Olympic highlights through the ages

Hossein REZA ZADEH

Athens 2004 | Olympic Games

Highlights

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Rezazadeh through the Olympic ages

Iran's Hossein Rezazadeh becomes a national hero with a gold-medal winning performance in the +105kg weighlifting class at Sydney 2000.

Sydney 2000 | Olympic Games

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Rezazadeh shocks Russians weightlifters

A crash course on the categories and stars from the competitive world of men's weightlifting

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World record weightlifters

United States of America

Simone

Simone Biles - Olympics.com

Sweden

Armand

Armand Duplantis - Olympics.com

Mikaela

Mikaela SHIFFRIN

Ilia

Ilia Malinin - Olympics.com

Hossein

Athens 2004

Sydney 2000

Hossein REZA ZADEH

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Olympic Results

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