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Abebe

Abebe Fekadu (born 1970), Ethiopian-Australian Paralympic weightlifter

Akmola Province

David Rigert, weightlifter, Olympic champion, 5x world champion (light-heavyweight and heavyweight), 68 world records

Bernardin Matam

Bernardin Ledoux Kingue Matam (Born on May 20, 1990 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a French weightlifter who competes in the men's lightweight division (-69 kg).

Borgan

Geir Borgan Paulsen (born 1957), Norwegian weightlifter and bodybuilder

Czechoslovakia at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Despite of that athletes were very successful, the majority of them gained medal, including gold medal of weightlifter Jaroslav Skobla.

Diego Salazar

Salazar participated in the men's -62 kg class at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the bronze medal, finishing behind Qiu Le and Oscar Figueroa.

Duey

Henry Duey (1908–1993), American weightlifter and Olympic medalist

Federated States of Micronesia at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Weightlifter Manuel Minginfel, who competed in the Olympics since the national debut, repeated his best performance from Athens, after finishing in tenth place.

Hans Bettembourg

Hansjörg "Hans" Bettembourg (born 28 March 1944 in Neuruppin) is a Swedish former weightlifter who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Hans Zdražila

Hans Zdražila (born 10 March 1941 in Moravská Ostrava) is a former Czechoslovak weightlifter and Olympic champion.

Héctor Ballesteros

Héctor Fabio Ballesteros Vélez (born October 18, 1981 in Cali, Valle del Cauca) is a retired male weightlifter from Colombia.

Helfgott

Ben Helfgott (born 1930), British Holocaust survivor, and champion weightlifter

Jaber Saeed Salem

Qatar has been known for recruiting sportspeople from other countries, the most notable examples being fellow weightlifter Said Saif Asaad (formerly Angel Popov of Bulgaria) and world-class runner Saif Saaeed Shaheen.

Kamal Bahadur Adhikari

Kamal Bahadur Adhikari (born July 20, 1977 in Gitanagar) is a Nepalese weightlifter.

Kuo Yi-hang

Kuo Yi-Hang (born June 2, 1975) is a female weightlifter who competed for Chinese Taipei in the 2000 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in heavyweight category.

Nauru at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Weightlifter and future President Marcus Stephen bore the Olympic torch during its stopover in Nauru.

Nauru at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Meanwhile, weightlifter Itte Detenamo, the first athlete from Nauru to participate in three Olympic games, reprised his role as the nation's flag bearer for the second time at the opening ceremony.

Ozoliņš

Alberts Ozoliņš (1896–1985), a Latvian weightlifter and Olympic competitor

Pammal K. Sambandam

Sambandham helps them elope in a hilarious chase where the weightlifter's father (Manivannan) and Sambandham's uncle (Santhana Bharathi) chase the trio to a police station where the weightlifter and her boyfriend marry.

Port Lincoln

Weightlifter Dean Lukin, who won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Super heavyweight division at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, was a tuna fisherman who shot to fame as a weightlifter in the 1980s.

Rezazadeh Stadium

The stadium is named after Olympic Gold medalist and world record weightlifter Hossein Rezazadeh.

Robert H. Meltzer

Meltzer learned weightlifting from both Olympian gold and silver-medal holder and Mr. World and Mr. Universe title-holder Tommy Kono and Dr. Peter T. George, captain of the 1952 (Helsinki) and 1956 (Melbourne) U.S. Olympic Weightlifting teams.

Rykers Solomon

Solomon is a close relative of weightlifter and Olympian participant Reanna Solomon.

Samoa at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Nauruan weightlifter and future president Marcus Stephen obtained Samoan citizenship and competed for Samoa at the 1992 Olympics.

Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Karyn Marshall (born 1956), champion weightlifter and chiropractor.

Souad Dinar

Souad Dinar (born August 16, 1977) is a French weightlifter in the 58 kg weight class.

Tammer

Harald Tammer (1899–1942), Estonian weightlifter, athlete and journalist

Tigran Martirosyan

Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan (born 1988), Armenian weightlifter who competes in the 69kg category

Tigran Vardan Martirosyan (born 1983), Armenian weightlifter who competes in the 85kg category

Tulia Medina

Tulia Angela Medina Alcalde (born March 18, 1983 in Cali, Valle del Cauca) is a female weightlifter from Colombia.

Weightlifting in Armenia

Aghvan Grigoryan, who became the first Armenian Olympian to bear the flag of Armenia at the Summer Olympics in 1996, was a weightlifter.

Weining

Lin Weining (born 1979), female Chinese weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist

Ymer Pampuri

At the age of 27, the 17 Nentori weightlifter broke the Olympic record established by Yoshinobu Miyake in the clean and press style by lifting 127,5 kg.

Yumnam Chanu

Yumnam Renu Bala Chanu (born 2 October 1986) is an Indian Woman Weightlifter.


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