The last weightlifting event of the Tokyo Olympics, the category for giant men over 109kg, had two bits of suspense. First, who would take silver and bronze? The answers were Ali Davoudi, the junior ...

He also broke the American records in the snatch with a 127-kilogram lift and ... in global Olympic qualifying rankings behind Tokyo Olympic champion Li Fabin of China. After the World Cup ...

Olympic records fell in many classes, and world records fell in two of them. China's Zhi Zhiyong set an overall record of 364kg in the 73kg class. The scene-stealer was Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze in ...

Thelma Hopkins set a new women's high jump world record in Belfast in May 1956 and won Olympic Games silver six months later in Melbourne 1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins ...

NANTERRE, France — Team USA ended swimming at the Paris Olympics on Sunday with a standout relay, winning gold and breaking ...

Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, the Olympic champion in Paris, revealed that his "biggest dream" as a child was to break the world record at an Olympic event, and he achieved that in front ...

The most-publicized were in swimming and track and field, but records also fell in archery, cycling, sport climbing, weight lifting ... team to medal. World and Olympic records were set, then ...