2024 Olympics Results: Men’s 89KG Weightlifting
The 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, are well underway. Day three of weightlifting at the Games kicked off with the Men’s 89KG weightlifting event at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time in the South Paris Arena. If you’re playing catch-up, here’s what went down on Aug. 8: Women’s 59-Kilogram Results & Recap Men’s 73-Kilogram Results & […]
2024 Olympics Results: Women’s 71KG Weightlifting
The 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, are finally here. On Aug. 7 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the best female strength athletes in the world gathered in the South Paris Arena to compete in the Women’s 71KG weightlifting event. If you’re still playing catch-up, here’s what you’ve missed today and yesterday: Women’s 59KG Weightlifting […]
Karlos Nasar Breaks World Records, Wins Weightlifting Gold for Bulgaria at 2024 Olympics
On Friday, Aug. 9, 20-year-old weightlifter Karlos Nasar culminated one of the most impressive runs in the sport with his performance at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France. During the Men’s 89-kilogram event, Nasar shocked audiences in the South Paris Arena when he won the gold medal and set multiple new world records in the […]
Rizki Juniansyah Rewrites Record Books, Wins Weightlifting Gold at 2024 Olympics
Earlier in 2024, Indonesian athlete Rizki Juniansyah shocked the weightlifting world when he made a last-minute comeback to qualify for the 2024 Olympics. Juniansyah, 21, bounced back from appendix surgery in time to snipe the singular 73-kilogram weightlifting slot out of the hands of his teammate (and world record holder) Rahmat Erwin Abdullah. At the […]
Tragedy Strikes Weightlifter Shi Zhiyong at 2024 Olympics
Earlier this year, in April, Chinese weightlifter Shi Zhiyong repeatedly collapsed during a routine preparatory workout ahead of the IWF World Cup. Four months later on Aug. 8 during the 2024 Olympics, the two-time Olympic Champion very narrowly missed a third gold medal. Since his commanding victory in Tokyo three years prior, China’s viciously-talented 73-kilogram’er […]
2024 Olympics Weightlifting Results: Men’s 73-Kilogram
The 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, are upon us. The second day of weightlifting proved, if possible, to be even more exhilarating than the first, thanks in large part to the Men’s 73-kilogram event at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Aug. 8. If you’re playing catch-up, here’s what happened this morning: Women’s 59KG Full […]
2024 Olympics Weightlifting Results: Women’s 59-Kilogram
Day two of the weightlifting at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, kicked off at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Aug. 8, 2024, with the Women’s 59-kilogram event. If you’re just tuning in, catch up with BarBend‘s up-to-the-minute event coverage: Men’s 61-Kilogram Results & Recap Women’s 49-Kilogram Results & Recap View this post on […]
New Records Pile Up During Women’s 59KG Weightlifting at 2024 Olympics
On the second day of weightlifting at the 2024 Olympics, stadium attendees witnessed something truly rare in competitive Olympic lifting. On Aug. 8, multiple women weightlifters broke the existing Olympic records in spectacular fashion. In total, four Olympic snatch records, one clean & jerk, and one Total record were hit as multiple athletes battled for […]
Is Mihaela Cambei the World’s Next Weightlifting Superstar?
On the first day of weightlifting at the 2024 Olympics, I watched Mihaela-Valentina Cambei do something unheard of. Cambei, a 21-year-old Olympic lifter from Romania, put Team China, the world’s most dominant contingent, up against the ropes. World record holder and 2020 Olympic Champion Hou Zhihui would ultimately win her second Olympic title (whilst inking […]
Hou Zhihui Sets Olympic Record Clean & Jerk to Steal Gold Medal at 2024 Olympics
The Women’s 49-kilogram event at the 2024 Olympics didn’t play out the way anyone expected. Heading into the competition on Aug. 7, Hou Zhihui of Team China was the presumptive gold medalist. Zhihui would ultimately win her second Olympic gold, but her victory didn’t come nearly as easily as anyone — including Zhihui herself — […]