If we had to measure the quality of the weightlifting performances in Paris, a good indicator would be the total number of records established in the French capital during the 2024 Olympic Games: 26! They are divided into three categories – World, Olympic (OR), and World Junior – and spanned throughout eight out of the […]
If Paris 2024 is a good guide, weightlifting is heading for a bright future. While the outstanding individual achievement was Lasha Talakadze winning his third gold, the best performance of the Olympic Games came from Karlos Nasar, who was 20 in May. Many people expected the formidable Bulgarian to win at 89kg, but few would have […]
Li Wenwen lifted her coach rather than the barbell on the way to claiming her second Olympic title in the last – and noisiest – session of weightlifting at Paris 2024. Her win helped China to continue its run of winning at least five weightlifting gold medals at every Games this century. Li is so […]
Lasha Talakhadze from Georgia became the fifth weightlifter to win three Olympic gold medals at Paris South Arena tonight. He might even stay around long enough for a fourth, he suggested afterwards. Super-heavyweight Lasha, as Talakhadze is known throughout the weightlifting world, is the first man weighing 100kg-plus to achieve the feat. He had to work […]
Solfrid Koanda was so focused on her own performance that she left the platform at South Paris Arena thinking she might just have blown her chance of Olympic gold. She had no idea that she had already won even before she went out and failed with a final world record attempt. “I genuinely thought I […]