history: What is olympic weightlifting?
knowledge: Weightlifting, also called Olympic-style weightlifting, or Olympic weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
response: It is an athletic discipline where the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell with weight plates.
history: What is olympic weightlifting?
It is an athletic discipline where the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell with weight plates.
What is the heaviest weight lifted or the average weight lifted in olympic weightlifting?
knowledge: The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk.
response: I am not sure of the numbers, but there are two competition lifts called the clean and jerk and the snatch, though they go in the opposite order.
history: What is olympic weightlifting?
It is an athletic discipline where the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell with weight plates.
What is the heaviest weight lifted or the average weight lifted in olympic weightlifting?
I am not sure of the numbers, but there are two competition lifts called the clean and jerk and the snatch, though they go in the opposite order.
Oh okay! Can women compete in olympic weightlifting?
knowledge: Bodyweight categories are different for male and female competitors.
response: Yes! But the bodyweight categories are different.
history: What is olympic weightlifting?
It is an athletic discipline where the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell with weight plates.
What is the heaviest weight lifted or the average weight lifted in olympic weightlifting?
I am not sure of the numbers, but there are two competition lifts called the clean and jerk and the snatch, though they go in the opposite order.
Oh okay! Can women compete in olympic weightlifting?
Yes! But the bodyweight categories are different.
Understandable. Are there any other types of lifting done besides lifting a barbell with weight plates?
knowledge: Properly executed, the snatch and the clean and jerk are both dynamic and explosive while appearing graceful, especially when viewed from a recording at a slowed speed.
response: I honestly am not certain. But a properly executed lift looks dynamic and explosive, but still graceful.
history: What is olympic weightlifting?
It is an athletic discipline where the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell with weight plates.
What is the heaviest weight lifted or the average weight lifted in olympic weightlifting?
I am not sure of the numbers, but there are two competition lifts called the clean and jerk and the snatch, though they go in the opposite order.
Oh okay! Can women compete in olympic weightlifting?
Yes! But the bodyweight categories are different.
Understandable. Are there any other types of lifting done besides lifting a barbell with weight plates?
I honestly am not certain. But a properly executed lift looks dynamic and explosive, but still graceful.
How many people compete in one round or session of olympic weightlifting?
knowledge: Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and the combined total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category.
response: Not sure but they are given three attempts in each.