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Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Dec. 17Highlands junior Carter Anderson admits he was a bit nervous stepping into the arena at the Villanova Fall Festival, a three-day competition that is the largest [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY Mitchell Hooper subscribes to one simple yet prevailing personal philosophy: 'Lift heavy. Be kind.' For the first World's Strongest Man champion from Canada, it's a [...]

Byline: RACHEL BRADY, Staff TOKYO -- Lead As Maude Charron pressed the 131-kilogram barbell above her head with all her might, locked her elbows, and steadied her legs, a euphoric [...]

Lead Canadian weightlifter Maude Charron of Rimouski, Que., competes in the snatch in the 64-kilogram category at the Pan American Games in Lima on Monday. Charron just missed the podium, [...]

Byline: GREGORY STRONG, THE CANADIAN PRESS LIMA -- Lead Boady Santavy seemed to gain more confidence and swagger with each lift Monday at the Lima Pan American Games. The 22-year-old [...]

Byline: NEIL DAVIDSON; THE CANADIAN PRESS GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA -- On a day of weightlifting high drama, Canadian Boady Santavy put on a record-breaking performance at the Commonwealth Games. But [...]

There is nothing quite like watching a five-foot-tall woman in rhinestones deadlift more than twice her body weight and then celebrate with a high kick. While spectators cheered her on, [...]

Byline: Scott Allen Washington Coach Jay Gruden's nephew, Jon David Gruden II, who goes by 'Deuce' and is an assistant strength and conditioning coach on the Redskins' staff, won gold [...]

Byline: Marissa Payne Laurel Hubbard made history this weekend by becoming the first transgender female to win an international weightlifting title for New Zealand. But her victory in the over-90-kilogram [...]

Ruslan Nurudinov of Uzbekistan won the gold medal in the men's 105-kilogram weight-lifting division. It was the first medal of any kind in weight lifting for Uzbekistan, and Nurudinov won [...]

Xiang Yanmei shrugged off a glancing blow to the head from a falling bar to capture gold in the women's 69-kilogram event. Xiang, who won world titles in 2013 and [...]

Byline: Cindy Boren Kazakhstan weightlifter Nijat Rahimov shattered the world record in the clean and jerk with a lift of 214 kilograms that secured a gold medal, but the real [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNorth Korea, the world's most reclusive country and an outsider in sports for decades, is in talks with the International Weightlifting Federation to host a world championship event, according [...]

A South Korean weight lifter has heard his national anthem played after winning gold in an international competition in Pyongyang, North Korea. Two South Koreans in the junior competition at [...]

Byline: JAMES MIRTLE LONDON 2012 / CANADA ON THE PODIUM LONDON -- Moving across the country is challenging enough for your average Canadian. Doing so when you're an elite athlete [...]

Spain are looking good in the men's water polo after an 11-9 victory over Greece in group A yesterday, with three wins from four so far. 'We try to speed [...]

Byline: JAMES MIRTLE LONDON 2012 / TRIPLE BRONZE / WOMEN'S 63 KILOGRAMS / WEIGHTLIFTING LONDON -- Christine Girard thought it was all happening again. The four-year wait. The agony and [...]

Byline: Allan Maki LONDON 2012 / PREVIEW London -- Annie Moniqui is an Olympic rookie with a veteran's assignment. The 22-year-old athlete from St-Hyacinthe, Que., will be competing Monday in [...]

Byline: Vicki Michaelis, USA TODAY Fifteen U.S. female weightlifters will compete Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, for two slots at the summer London Olympics. Katie Uhlaender enters the Olympic trials ranked [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Aug. 03--Cpl. Brandon Rumbaugh isn't bothered by being bound to a wheelchair, knowing that his instantaneous reaction to an improvised explosive device might have saved another Marine's [...]

Katie Uhlaender finished third in the women's 63-kilogram division at the USA Weightlifting national championships at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Uhlaender, a two-time member of the Olympic skeleton team who has [...]

Byline: STEVE LEE; TIMES CORRESPONDENT ZEPHYRHILLS -- Football players traditionally lift weights to prepare for the season. You might say football led Brad Bouthot to a career in weightlifting. The [...]

It was the morning after the spectacular opening ceremony, and Chinese spectators were in a buoyant mood as they converged on the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium with […]

CAPTION(S): PHOTOS: The World's Strongest Man Super Series came to the Garden on Saturday. Mark Felix, top, competed in the dead lift. Mark Philippi, above left, and Janne Virtanen raced […]

For the first time in the history of weightlifting, the Iranian team has won the world weightlifting championship, which was held this year in Anaheim, California. The Iranian team racked [...]