Weightlifting
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2024 European Weightlifting Championships Full Results
It’s getting down to the wire now. The 2024 European Weightlifting Championships (EWC) run in Sofia, Bulgaria from Feb. 12…
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North Korean World Records (and Chris Bumstead is BACK) — Strength Weekly 2/9
Strength Weekly is bringing you all the news from around the barbell game. This week, we’re covering: Here’s the run…
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Song Kuk Hyang (71KG) Sets 154KG Clean & Jerk World Record at 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships
At this point, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) might need to just chuck out the record book altogether. The 2024…
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Rahmat Erwin Abdullah (73KG) Lifts 204KG World Record Clean & Jerk at 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships
At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, weightlifter Rahmat Erwin Abdullah of Indonesia surprised everyone when he snuck himself into bronze…
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Kang Hyon Gyong (55KG) Breaks Snatch World Record at 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships
North Korea continues its dominance. Having already set new world records in every session held so far at the 2024…
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Ri Song Gum (49KG) Sets Clean & Jerk and Total World Records at 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or PRK) produces some of the best weightlifters in the world. Case in…
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Weightlifter Won Hyon Sim Sets First-Ever World Records in 45-Kilogram Division
Tiny, but mighty; on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, weightlifter Won Hyon Sim made history in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The city is…
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2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships Full Results
It’s finally here. The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France inch closer by the day. But before then, the best…
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Team China Withdraws From 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships
The Chinese weightlifting team — the world’s most dominant contingent in the sport — has abandoned one of its two…
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Never Before Seen: Olympic Champion Ilya Ilyin Attempts 247KG Unofficial World Record Clean & Jerk
Two hundred forty-seven kilograms, or 544.5 pounds, is the weight of the barbell in a Jan. 8, 2024 video posted…
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