Weightlifting is an ancient world famous games which is played all over the country. The game is also known as Olympic weightlifting or Olympic-style weightlifting and is a sport in which participants try a maximum weight single lift of a barbell encumbered with weight plates. Ancient Olympic Games is the website for providing gaming information, describing weightlifting in this page.
Olympic weightlifting is a common sport for both men and women categorized by weight classes from the huge heavyweights to the small flyweights. Each winner athletes is awarded with gold, silver and bronze medals. The game is a popular viewer sport at the Summer Olympics, although the game has become more popular as a participant sport in certain European, Middle Eastern and Asian countries.
Weightlifting was first incorporated to the Olympic Games in 1896 as a part of track and field. Then it was left out of the 1900 Games and then again reappeared in 1904. It didn't return to the Olympics again until 1920 when it was admitted in its own right. At first, Olympic weightlifting featured some event criteria that would seem to be unusual in the present age.
The game has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the 1920 Summer Olympics, as well as it was played twice before then. It was first appeared at the 1896 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, and turned out also as an event at the 1904 Games.
The competition for weightlifting was held at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing from August 9 to August 19. The game was staged at the Beihang University Gymnasium. In the competition, the Soviet Union ranked top in the medal tally by winning 39 gold, 21 silver and 2 bronze for the country. Next after Soviet Union is China which ranked the second position by achieving 24 gold, 11 silver and 8 bronze medals. The third position is held by the United States.