The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024, has been a cataclysm of world records. Athletes learned that new weight categories were confirmed for June 2025 and decided to let loose on the record books before they take effect. In the lightest weight category of the competition —...
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships took place in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024. The competition featured weight categories that will cease to exist in June 2025. 2024 IWF World Championships Results Below are the results for each of the weight categories contested in Manama. Results are listed as “snatch/clean & jerk...
Olympic Weightlifting will have new bodyweight categories for the first time in seven years. On Dec. 5, 2024, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) approved the Innovation Commission’s proposal to reduce weight classes from 10 to eight for both male and female athletes. With that reduction comes an adjustment to the weights for each category. None...
Karlos Nasar will probably win the 2024 World Weightlifting Championships (WWC). Nasar, 20, won gold at the 2024 Olympics this summer and set a few new world records in the process. The 2024 WWC runs from Dec. 6 to 15 in Manama, Bahrain, and will also hold a meeting of the International Weightlifting Federation’s Congress...
Lasha Talakhadze is commonly regarded as one of the best weightlifters of all time — he is unequivocally the strongest, having lifted more weight in the snatch and clean & jerk, the sport’s two competitive disciplines, than any human being living or dead. The heaviest split jerk caught on camera is 270 kilograms. Talakhadze broke...
American weightlifting has momentum. After the best performance in its modern history at the 2024 Olympics, Team USA is poised to perform even better over the coming years. On Nov. 8, 2024, USA Weightlifting (USAW) announced the upcoming rollout of its National Team Program (NTP). The NTP, designed by USAW’s Senior Director Sport Performance Mike...
In April, Rizki Juniansyah made a big splash in the weightlifting world when he sniped one of Indonesia’s athlete slots from teammate Rahmat Erwin Abdullah. Juniansyah went on to win the 73-kilogram event at the 2024 Olympics. It’s often said that performance in the clean & jerk, one of weightlifting’s two competitive disciplines, wins or...
Antonino Pizzolato is, maybe, Italy’s best weightlifter. Italian weightlifters floundered at the 2024 Olympics in Paris after raising their profile throughout the pre-Games qualification period, but Pizzolato walked away with his second Olympic bronze medal in the 89-kilogram category by the skin of his teeth. On Oct. 23, 2024, Pizzolato blasted social media with a...
2024 has been a great year for weightlifting — there was a little event in Paris back in August called the Olympic Games, and before that, the IWF World Cup proved to be one of the most exhilarating competitions in recent memory. World Weightlifting Day, a celebration dedicated to honoring the athletes who compete in...
Team USA’s weightlifting industry has a bright future. American weightlifters had their best-ever performance at the Olympic Games this August in Paris. Just a few months later, the States’ Junior athletes are showing up and showing out at the 2024 Junior World Weightlifting Championships. Ella Nicholson, who just turned 18 on July 7, dominated the...
