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IWF120y/75 – 2000: Nikolay Peshalov clinches sole Olympic gold so far for Croatia

05:45 International Weightlifting Federation

Nikolay Peshalov is one of the very few lifters to have won four Olympic medals throughout a very accomplished career! Born in Bulgaria in 1970...

IWF120y/75 – 2000: Nikolay Peshalov clinches sole Olympic gold so far for Croatia

05:45 International Weightlifting Federation

Nikolay Peshalov is one of the very few lifters to have won four Olympic medals throughout a very accomplished career! Born in Bulgaria in 1970, he represented his country until 1998, then switching to Croatia.

IWF120y/74 – 1972: Olympic title crowns a superb career for Imre Foldi (HUN)

Yesterday 11:35 International Weightlifting Federation

Born in May 1938, Imre Foldi had a challenging childhood and teenage years, but became the greatest-ever Hungarian weightlifter and arguably one of the best in our sports’ history. Having lost his mother during World War II, he works as a miner and his extraordinary strength is quickly noticed.

IWF120y/73 – 2000: Tara Nott (USA), the first female lifter with Olympic gold

24 Apr 2025 11:46 International Weightlifting Federation

On September 17, 2000 the weightlifting family was in a celebratory mode at the Sydney Olympics. On that day, after more than 100 years only with male participation, the Games presented the first-ever female competition, the women’s 48kg category.

Khaled Mehalel re-elected president of the Weightlifting Federation of Africa

24 Apr 2025 09:08 International Weightlifting Federation

The Weightlifting Federation of Africa (WFA) held its electoral congress on April 22, 2025 in Mauritius and unanimously re-elected Mr Khaled Mehalel for a new term until 2029. In a significant display of unity...

European Championships: More records for Nasar, Koanda is top female and Iceland has its first winner

24 Apr 2025 07:39 International Weightlifting Federation

Olympic champions Karlos Nasar and Solfrid Koanda were the top individual performers at the 2025 European Championships in Chishinau, Moldova which finished this week. Seven other Paris Olympians were among the winners.

IWF120y/72 – 2025: Knowing one of the basic lifts – Clean & Jerk

23 Apr 2025 07:33 International Weightlifting Federation

Together with the Snatch, the Clean & Jerk is one of the two basic lifts in Olympic weightlifting. Considered in the early days a rudimentary test of strength, it became a highly technical movement...

IWF120y/71 – 1964: Waldemar Baszanowski, a reference in Polish weightlifting

22 Apr 2025 06:20 International Weightlifting Federation

Before arriving in Tokyo, for his second Olympic participation in 1964, Waldemar Baszanowski was already a distinguished athlete in Poland. After winning the 1961 world title in Vienna (AUT) and getting two additional silver medals in 1962 (Budapest...

IWF120y/70 – 2024: Solfrid Koanda (NOR) is the last one to know she won gold

21 Apr 2025 07:43 International Weightlifting Federation

It is certainly one of the funniest and most remembered images of the weightlifting competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games: in the women’s 81kg, Solfrid Koanda wins the gold for Norway, but always in her “bubble” and “protected” by her coaches regarding the progress of the event...

IWF120y/69 – 1968: Serge Reding earns last Olympic medal for Belgium

20 Apr 2025 06:12 International Weightlifting Federation

1920 is an important date, both for the Olympic Movement and for the IWF. After the horror of World War I (leading to the cancellation of the 1916 edition), the Games were staged in Antwerp. Belgium, with the participation of 29 nations (only one more than in 1912).

IWF120y/68 – 2004: Halil Mutlu (TUR) enters a very ‘exclusive’ club

19 Apr 2025 06:59 International Weightlifting Federation

After winning his third consecutive gold medal at the Games, Halil Mutlu (TUR) entered in 2004 in the very “exclusive” club of the lifters with three Olympic titles. Born in July 1973 in Bulgaria, he starts to be noticed at the beginning of the 1990s...

IWF120y/67 – 1948: Lifters from the five continents are represented at the Olympics

18 Apr 2025 06:32 International Weightlifting Federation

The presence of weightlifting at the Games reflects the evolution of the sport in the five continents, the status of our International Federation in the Olympic Movement, and is even determined by the location of the biggest sports event on the planet.

IWF120y/66 – 2016: Oscar Figueroa, the shiniest Colombian star

17 Apr 2025 04:55 International Weightlifting Federation

It is normally a feat associated with strong countries in the Olympic arena, those winning many dozens of medals in a single edition of the Games: to place two of their athletes on the podium within a difference of hours.

IWF120y/65 – 1972: Norair Nurikian, the first Bulgarian golden lifter

16 Apr 2025 07:05 International Weightlifting Federation

The first day of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games was on and among the weightlifters it was the moment of the weigh-in for the initial category (men’s 60kg) of the competition, to be held the following day.

IWF120y/64 – 2021: Hidilyn Diaz makes history for the Philippines

15 Apr 2025 04:48 International Weightlifting Federation

Her tiny morphology (she is 1.58m high) hides a strong woman and a hero in the Philippines: Hidilyn Diaz. Initiated in the sport of weightlifting almost by accident – through one of her cousins, after trying basketball and volleyball ...

I'm a Weightlifter, and These Are My Three Favorite Types of Weightlifting Belts

14 Apr 2025 21:00 Lifehacker.com

Velcro or leather? Lever or prong? I have opinions.

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