Olivia Reeves hoisted the United States to its first Olympic weightlifting gold medal in 24 years on Thursday, winning the women's 71kg (157 pounds) competition. Reeves set an Olympic record on Friday ...

There are 61 athletes in the five women’s weightlifting classes at the Paris Olympics. Mary Theisen-Lappen is the oldest one. At 33, Theisen-Lappen doesn’t have the orthodox background of a lifter who ...

The strongest sport at the Olympics is set to take stage on Wednesday, Aug. 7, in Paris where five Americans eye the podium. Olympic weightlifting, simply known to athletes as weightlifting, is not to ...

PARIS, Aug 11 (Reuters) - China's Li Wenwen won her second Olympic gold medal with a dominant performance to take the title in the women's over 81kg weightlifting at the Paris Games on Sunday. The ...

At 9 a.m. sharp, in a massive gymnasium just a block from Beijing’s Temple of Heaven, the Chinese women’s weight-lifting team reports for duty. Soon the training hall echoes with the sound of weights ...

To say that Holly Arrow had a busy 2015 would be an understatement. Arrow, 60 and a professor at the University of Oregon’s psychology department, spoke at a conference on socially extended knowledge ...

Mira Mohan has been weightlifting for two years. She wanted to lift weights as a young teenager, but it was not until she saw Mirabai Chanu win an Olympic medal for India that weightlifting became an ...

LOS ANGELES, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first women's Olympic marathon champion, hopes the return of the Summer Games to Los Angeles in 2028 will propel a new generation of American ...

Hidilyn Diaz missed out on a medal finish after placing fourth in the women’s 58kg weightlifting category of the 33rd ...