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Weightlifting is a sport in which athletes compete to lift heavy barbells in standardized ways, typically involving two main lifts called the snatch and the clean and jerk. It matters as a competitive sport that tests strength, technique, and athletic performance at elite levels.
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Research
1,944 papers- Weightlifting for Children and Adolescents: A Narrative Review.Sports health · 2022
- Unique aspects of competitive weightlifting: performance, training and physiology.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2012
- Effects of creatine supplementation and resistance training on muscle strength and weightlifting performance.Journal of strength and conditioning research · 2003
- National Strength and Conditioning Association Position Statement on Weightlifting for Sports Performance.Journal of strength and conditioning research · 2023
- Influence of Powerlifting and Weightlifting on Female Pelvic Floor Dysfunction: Systematic Literature Review.International urogynecology journal · 2025
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- Instance of
- hobby
- Part of
- heavy athletics
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-W1107-0054, Peter Wenzel.jpg
- Said to be same as
- powerlifting
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- OpenStreetMap tag
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- topic's main category
- Category:Weightlifting
- Commons category
- Olympic weightlifting
- record or record progression
- list of world records in Olympic weightlifting
- practiced by
- weightlifter
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C94741
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