USA’s Ella Nicholson Dominates, Sets Records at 2024 Junior World Weightlifting Championships
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 […]
Tuna Meatballs for Breakfast: Olympic Champion Karlos Nasar’s Insane Weightlifting Diet
20-year-old Olympic Champion Karlos Nasar has an absolutely bonkers weightlifting diet. Nasar, who won gold for Bulgaria at the 2024 Olympics in the 89-kilogram division, takes every aspect of his training and recovery to the extreme. “American weightlifters would not last a week in Bulgaria,” Nasar joked of his training environment during a recent podcast […]
Karlos Nasar Unpaid for Olympic Gold, World Records — May Miss 2024 World Championships
Despite an Olympic gold medal and multiple world records, Karlos Nasar has not been paid for his efforts by his home country and may even miss out on the upcoming 2024 World Weightlifting Championships in December. Nasar, 20, set two Senior world records and won gold during the Men’s 89-kilogram weightlifting event at the 2024 […]
2024 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships Results
The 2024 Olympics have come and gone, but weightlifting is still rocking around the world. September plays host to the 2024 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships (JWWC), where the rising stars of Olympic lifting will battle for gold, glory, and maybe a few new world records. The 2024 JWWC runs from Sep. 19 – 27 […]
Mattie Rogers’ Top 3 Tips for Competing in Strength Sports
Weightlifter Mattie Rogers knows a thing or two about competing in strength sports. Rogers got her start in CrossFit over a decade ago before turning to Olympic lifting full-time. Since then, she’s competed on the biggest stages in the world, including the World Championships and Olympic Games. After so many years carrying the Team USA […]
Unofficial World Record: Jiang Huihua’s Double-Bodyweight, 99KG Snatch
Despite being one of Team China’s best athletes and having the strength to snatch more than twice her own weight, 49-kilogram Jiang Huihua has never been to the Olympic Games. In 2021 and 2024, her teammate, Hou Zhihui, competed in the women’s lightweight division at the Olympics. Hou won gold both times. Yet Jiang has […]
The Most Surprising Weightlifting Stats From the 2024 Olympics
The 2024 Olympics may be in the rearview, but weightlifting fanatics like us are still doing post-game reviews. The summer Games in Paris may have been the smallest Olympic-level weightlifting event in years, but the competition itself was no less exciting. Paris hosted 122 weightlifters across 10 weight class events, down from 196 performers in […]
Olympic Champion Solfrid Koanda’s First Workout After Winning Weightlifting Gold
Electrician-turned-Olympic-Champion Solfrid Koanda made history for Norway at Paris 2024. Koanda, 25, won her country’s first women’s weightlifting gold medal in the 81-kilogram category only a few years into the sport. “Back to basics…” Koanda wrote, describing her return to the barbell after several weeks away. Let’s take a look at how one of the […]
“Retired” Weightlifter Tian Tao Smashes 550-Pound Front Squat
Chinese weightlifter Tian Tao retired after failing to qualify for the 2024 Olympics this spring — sort of. Tian, who has competed for Team China for over a decade, has signaled his intent to compete in the National Games of China in 2025. Known for having some of the strongest legs in the world of […]
Weightlifters Spam the Internet With Unofficial Records After 2024 Olympics
With the 2024 Olympics in the rearview, many of the world’s best weightlifters are finally showing their hands after months of playing things close to the chest. In the weeks since the conclusion of Paris 2024, a deluge of unofficial world records and monstrous training lifts from before the Games have appeared on the Internet. […]