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An ancient sport as old as mankind, embodying the most direct manifestation of human strength, weightlifting has not only flourished, but developed into a modern sporting discipline for the 21st century. The apparent simplicity of lifting the barbell from the ground and over the head in one or two movements is deceiving. Weightlifting requires a combination of power, speed, technique, concentration and timing.
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| History |
 As a basic athletic activity and a natural means to measure strength and power, the lifting of weights was present in both the ancient Egyptian and Greek societies. Weightlifting was among those few sports which featured on the programme of the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, in Athens.
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| Equipment |
 Barbell
Equipment consisting of a steel bar and rubber-coated discs of different weights fastened onto it. In weightlifting competitions, competitors must lift the barbell loaded to a certain weight under strictly specified conditions. In competition, the barbell's weight is progressively loaded by one-kilo increments.
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| Glossary |
Movement (Lift): The Snatch or the Clean & Jerk: these two methods of lifting the barbell overhead are recognised for weightlifting competitions.
No Lift: An attempt judged as unsuccessful by at least two of the three referees.
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Yoshinobu Miyake was Japan's greatest weightlifter and is considered one of the strongest men ever, pound-for-pound. He finished second in the 1960 Olympic bantamweight class and then won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics as a featherweight. |
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Schumann competed in three events in athletics (long jump, triple jump and shot put) and in weightlifting. Carl Schumann won three events in gymnastics and the Greco-Roman wrestling tournament in a major upset. |
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