MICHAEL REAMS stood a few inches in front of my barbell. My job was to lift the bar from the floor over my head into a squat — without hitting him. I quaked a little inside. But Reams is not someone ...

Mar. 21—University of Wyoming junior Emma Rogers had a successful trip to the USA Weightlifting University Nationals at the Arnold Classic earlier this month, winning silver medals in the snatch, ...

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 ...

Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...

It’s a warm day in June and Olivia Reeves is training at an unassuming gym in Chattanooga, Tenn. It’s tucked away in an industrial park and you could easily miss it. That is, except for the big white ...

Another year, another one for the Vero Beach girls weightlifting team to look back on with memories as the program scored a state championship in the snatch, the first year the event was instituted ...

Lima’s Taylor Lucas (center) celebrates on the victory stand with Shelby Pflug (left) and Meaghan Strey. Submitted photo Taylor Lucas earned gold and a national champion title in the 64 kg weight ...

IMAGE: In the junior men's 79kg, Bharali registered record lifts across snatch, clean and jerk and total to clinch gold with 326kg with record performances in all three. Photograph: Kind courtesy ...