Weightlifting

India at London Olympics 2012: A glance at the performance of athletes

A look at the Indian athletes performance at the 2012 London Olympics.

Olympics 2012: German lifter drops 432 pound barbells onto neck in failed bid to defend Olympic title

Defending Olympic weightlifting champion Matthias Steiner had a fortunate escape at London’s ExCel center on Tuesday, when he dropped 432 pounds barbell onto his neck during his second attempt

London Olympics Weightlifting: Ilyin of Kazakhstan defends weightlifting gold

Kazakhstan`s Ilya Ilyin nailed all six lifts, broke two world records and defended his weightlifting gold medal from four years ago.

Olympic weightlifting: Polish underdog bags gold

Poland`s Adrian Edward Zielinski has won the gold medal in weightlifting men`s 85kg category with a total of 385kg.

London Olympics Weightlifting: Zielinski lifts Poland`s first gold

Adrian Zielinski of Poland claimed weightlifting gold by the narrowest possible margin in the men`s 85kg category Friday.

Olympics 2012 weightlifting: Podobedova lifts Kazakhstan to gold

Svetlana Podobedova won Olympic gold for Kazakhstan by the narrowest of margins here Friday

Former coaches, parents of Ravi Kumar happy with performance

Weightlifter K Ravi Kumar might have failed to put up his best performance in the 69kg category in the London Olympics, finishing on 15th position, but his former coaches and parents said they were happy with his show.

Olympic Weightlifting: China`s Lin Qinfeng lifts 69-kg gold

Lin snatched 157 kg and added 187 kg in the clean and jerk to total 344 kg, a full 11 kilos more than silver medalist Triyatno of Indonesia Tuesday.

London Olympics Weightlifting: Ravi Kumar crashes out

India's weightlifting campaign in the London Olympics ended today on a dismal note with Katulu Ravi Kumar coming up with a below-par performance in the men's 69kg category at the Excel Arena.

London Olympics 2012 weightlifting: North Korean lifter breaks world record

North Korea`s Kim Un Guk broke the world record in men`s 62 kg category weight-lifting on the way to win gold at the London Olympics Monday.

Olympics 2012: China`s Li lifts Olympic gold in 58 kg, breaks record

China`s Li Xueying won women`s weightlifting gold in the 58kg category Monday, setting two Olympic records.

North Korean weightlifter credits Kim Jong Il for world-record feat of lifting thrice his weight

Korean Olympian Om Yun Chol joined an elite list of weightlifters to have lifted three times their weight during the men``s 56-kg, group B, clean and jerk weightlifting competition

Londom Olympic 2012 Weightlifting: Kazakh prodigy takes gold, world record

Kazakhstan`s teenage prodigy Zulfiya Chinshanlo powered her way to a weightlifting gold in the 53kg category Sunday, breaking her own world record in the clean and jerk.

China`s Wang finally lifts Olympic gold

Four-time world champion Mingjuan Wang finally won an Olympic weightlifting gold Saturday, needing just three lifts to blow away the rest of the field.

Soniya finishes 7th in 48kg weightlifting

India`s Soniya Chanu failed to produce her best effort as she finished seventh in the women`s 48kg weightlifting Olympic competition here today.

Albanian lifter banned from London for steroids

Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku has been excluded from the London Olympics after testing positive for steroids, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Saturday.

I`m not intimidated by presence of big names: Soniya Chanu

Asserting that she has qualified for the Olympics on her own, diminutive weightlifter Soniya Chanu on Sunday said she is not going to get intimidated by the presence of some of the big names.

Low-profile Soniya keen to spring up surprise

Karnam Malleshwari`s bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics raised the profile of Indian weightlifting by several notches but little is expected of London-bound Soniya Chanu and the lifter does not mind it one bit as she is keen on springing a surprise at the mega-event.

Weightlifters are not here to make up numbers: Coach

Weightlifting coach Devidutt Sharma does not want to talk big by promising a medal from his wards but says the two-member Indian team here is not just to make up the numbers in the London Olympics.