The clean and jerk comprises the final round of Olympic competition. It is a two-motion lift – the clean and the jerk – and allows for the use of much greater weight than the snatch. The first part, ...

The Olympic Weightlifting Bar from Bells of Steel dominated our list with its seamless spin and peppy whip, plus a whopping 240,000 PSI tensile strength. And baby’s got range: Although it ...

The weight figure listed for a lift includes the weight of the discs, bar, and collars combined ... athlete's clothes can be a maximum of 12cm in width. Similarly to other Olympic sports like ...

The goal in Olympic lifting is that you move around the bar, meaning that you don’t pass it from your shoulders to hands or from the ground to your chest, but you leave it floating in midair as ...

Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze won gold in the men's +102 kilograms, marking his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the heaviest weightlifting division. Olivia Reeves won the United States' first ...