Karapetyan lays down the gauntlet to Lyu with a good lift at 174kg. Lyu will now try 175kg to match his own Olympic record ...

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 ...

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 ...

I hope to win it again in the next season. I'm very, very happy because I won the gold medal in Paris and now I have two gold medals and two world records (in the men's -88kg and -97kg). Thank you ...

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 ...

Agata Sitko has managed to defend her title at the 2025 IPF Sheffiel Powerlifting Championships by setting three new World ...

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

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 ...

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 ...