Olympic Champion From Georgia
Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia won gold in the 105+ class at the 2016 Summer Olympic in Rio. He set two Olympic records and two world records tonight. 216KG snatch! And 473KG in total! Outstanding...
Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia won gold in the 105+ class at the 2016 Summer Olympic in Rio. He set two Olympic records and two world records tonight. 216KG snatch! And 473KG in total! Outstanding...
Ruslan Nurudinov of Uzbekistan won the gold medal in the heavyweight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. He became the Olympic champion after lifting 230KG in his second attempt in the clean-and-jerk...
I did not feel any pressure, I just focused on each lift. The first thing I thought when I knew I had won was that I had made our Beloved Leader (Kim Jong Un)...
Suping Meng of China won the gold Olympic medal in the over 75KG class for women in Rio. Meng lifted total of 307KG which was 1KG more than the silver medalist Kuk Hyang Meng...
Olympic and World champion Nicu Vlad preparing Gabriel Sincraian of Romania during the competition in the 85KG class in Rio. At the Olympics, Vlad won gold medal in 1984, silver medal in 1988 and...
Sonny Webster of Great Britain wore a baseball hat while lifting in the 94KG class in Rio. I didn’t know that athletes are allowed to wear hats in modern Olympic weightlifting. Sonny said that...
Aurimas Didzbalis does this amazing acrobatic body flip in the air. This is a trademark of Aurimas. In Rio, he won the bronze medal in the 94KG class and he did the flip again....
World champion and Olympic medalist, Vencelas Dabaya is preparing Benjamin Hennequin of France before the lift in the 85KG class in Rio.
It’s always nice to see familiar faces during the Olympics in Rio. World champion (1999, 2002) and bronze medalist of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Denis Gotfrid is coaching the Ukrainian athletes in Rio....
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Team Iran won the second gold medal in weightlifting last night. Sohrab Moradi, 27, took the first place in the 94KG class competition with 403KG (182+221) total....