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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Rim Jong-Sim wins the Gold for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Darya Naumava the Silver for Belarus and Lidia Valentin the Bronze for Spain in the women's heavyweight weightlifting final at the Rio Summer Olympic Games in 2016

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A record 606 athletes from 100 countries will compete at the 2019 IWF World Weightlifting Championships in Pattaya, Thailand from 18-27 September.
There are three gold medals up for grabs in each weight class - one in the snatch, one in the clean and jerk, and one for the total

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This event took place on 01/08/2012 at the ExCel in London and was won by Rim Jong-sim (PRK).

London 2012 | Olympic Games

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Sim Jong Rim wins gold for The People's Republic of Korea in the women's 75kg weightlifting final.

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Sim Jong Rim wins gold for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, narrowly missing a new personal best lift for an Olympic Record.

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Rim takes gold in Women's 75kg Weightlifting

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All the Olympic highlights from Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Rio, set to the national anthem.

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A record total of over 650 athletes from 91 countries will compete at the IWF Weightlifting World Championships in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, from 1–10 November.
The championships is the first event in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games qualifying cycle and new weight categories introduced for this year mean world records will

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