Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics

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Weightlifting has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the 1920 Summer Olympics, as well as twice before then. It debuted at the 1896 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, and was also an event at the 1904 Games.

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Events

Men's events

In the early Games, all lifters competed in the same events, regardless of their individual body weights.

1896

• One hand lift
• Two hand lift

1904

• Two hand lift
• All-around dumbbell

When the sport returned to the Olympic Games in 1920, the competition was structured as a set of weight classes. The number of classes and weight limits for each class have changed several times, as shown in the following table.

Women's events

Women's weightlifting made its Olympic debut at the 2000 Games in Sydney, with seven weight classes which have not changed since.

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Medal table

As of the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Nations

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See also

• List of Olympic records in weightlifting
• List of Olympic venues in weightlifting
• World Weightlifting Championships

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References

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