Olympic weightlifting female competitors. A lifter who fails to complete at least one successful snatch and one successful clean and jerk also fails to "total", and therefore receives an "incomplete" entry for the competition. The clean and press was once a competition lift, but was discontinued due to difficulties in judging proper form. In comparison with other strength sports, which test limit strength (with or without lifting aids), weightlifting tests aspects of human ballistic limits (explosive strength); the lifts are therefore executed faster—and with more mobility and a greater range of motion during their execution—than other strength movements. Properly executed, the snatch
Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics table. Women's weightlifting made its Olympic debut at the 2000 Games in Sydney, with seven weight classes. "As of the 2016 Summer Olympics" The table shows those who have won at least 2 gold medals. Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics 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. In the early Games, all lifters competed in the same events, regardless of their individual body weights. When the sport returned