Weightlifting at the Olympics
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| Governing body | IWF |
| Events | 15 (men: 8; women: 7) |
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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 to the Olympic Games in 1920, the competition was structured as a set of weight classes. The number of classes and weight limits for each class have changed several times, as shown in the following table.
Women's weightlifting made its Olympic debut at the 2000 Games in Sydney, with seven weight classes which have not changed since.
As of the 2016 Summer Olympics
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