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.

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 the following weight classes:

• 48 kg
• 53 kg
• 58 kg
• 63 kg
• 69 kg
• 75 kg
• +75 kg

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	39	21	2	62
2	China (CHN)	24	11	8	43
3	United States (USA)	16	16	11	43
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	12	16	8	36
5	France (FRA)	9	3	3	15
6	Turkey (TUR)	8	1	1	10
7	Germany (GER)	6	7	7	20
8	Greece (GRE)	6	5	4	15
9	Italy (ITA)	5	4	5	14
10	Unified Team (EUN)	5	4	0	9
11	Egypt (EGY)	5	2	2	9
12	Poland (POL)	4	6	20	30
13	Iran (IRI)	4	3	5	12
14	Russia (RUS)	3	8	10	21
15	South Korea (KOR)	3	4	4	11
16	Austria (AUT)	3	4	2	9
17	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3	2	3	8
18	Thailand (THA)	3	0	3	6
19	Hungary (HUN)	2	9	9	20
20	Romania (ROU)	2	6	3	11
21	Japan (JPN)	2	2	8	12
22	West Germany (FRG)	2	2	3	7
23	Ukraine (UKR)	2	2	2	6
24	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	1	4
25	East Germany (GDR)	1	4	6	11
26	North Korea (PRK)	1	4	4	9
27	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	4	1	6
28	Belarus (BLR)	1	3	4	8
29	Estonia (EST)	1	3	3	7
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	3	3	7
31	Belgium (BEL)	1	2	1	4
32	Denmark (DEN)	1	2	0	3
33	Australia (AUS)	1	1	2	4
34	Colombia (COL)	1	1	1	3
35	Finland (FIN)	1	0	2	3
36	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	1	2
	Georgia (GEO)	1	0	1	2
38	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
40	Indonesia (INA)	0	2	4	6
41	Switzerland (SUI)	0	2	2	4
42	Canada (CAN)	0	2	0	2
43	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	4	5
44	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	1	2	3
45	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	1	2
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	1	2
47	Lebanon (LIB)	0	1	0	1
	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	1	0	1
	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	0	1
	Vietnam (VIE)	0	1	0	1
52	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	4	4
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	4	4
54	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	3	3
55	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1
Total		185	181	182	548

Nations

The number in each box represents the number of athletes the nation sent.

Nation	96	04	20	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	Years
Denmark (DEN)	1	-
Germany (GER)	1	-
Great Britain (GBR)	1	-
Greece (GRE)	3	1
Hungary (HUN)	1	-
United States (USA)	-	4
No. of nations	5	2
No. of weightlifters	7	5

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