Li Wenwen won the women's +81 kilogram division to give China five gold medals in weightlifting at the Paris Olympics, while the U.S. came away with two weightlifting medals during the Games.

Kate Nye won a silver medal for the best U.S. weightlifting result since Tara Nott-Cunningham won gold in 2000, and Sarah Robles became the first U.S. woman to win two weightlifting medals in her ...

When it comes to the big men of the Olympics ... edge out Armenia’s Varazdat Malayan as the big men took centre stage. You’ll ...

FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Weightlifting ... very first Games in Athens in 1896. Two weightlifting events were held back then, the men’s one hand lift and the men’s two hand lift.