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New page: '''Weightlifting''' is an Olympic sport where athletes compete to see who can lift the heaviest weights (in the form of a metal bar with heavy weights on each end). Both men and wo...
'''Weightlifting''' is an [[Olympic]] [[sport]] where athletes compete to see who can lift the heaviest weights (in the form of a metal bar with heavy weights on each end). Both men and women compete, and there are several weight divisions for each gender.
Olympic weightlifting has two divisions:
* '''Snatch''', where the bar must be lifted above the head in one continuous motion.
* '''Clean and jerk''', where the bar is first lifted to just beneath the chin, and then lifted above the head after a short pause.
Participants compete in both disciplines (with the weights being increased in a similar way to the raising of the bar in a [[high jump]] competition), and add their best scores in each. The man or woman with the highest combined total is the winner.
Countries who usually perform well in weightlifting include [[China]] and many former [[Soviet]] states.
Olympic weightlifting has two divisions:
* '''Snatch''', where the bar must be lifted above the head in one continuous motion.
* '''Clean and jerk''', where the bar is first lifted to just beneath the chin, and then lifted above the head after a short pause.
Participants compete in both disciplines (with the weights being increased in a similar way to the raising of the bar in a [[high jump]] competition), and add their best scores in each. The man or woman with the highest combined total is the winner.
Countries who usually perform well in weightlifting include [[China]] and many former [[Soviet]] states.