Modern weightlifting began in Europe in the18th century, and the circus in London, England often performed weightlifting. /kloc-At the beginning of the 9th century, a weightlifting club was established in Britain. At first, both ends of the barbell were metal balls, and the weight could not be adjusted. The competition is determined by the number of times. Later, the Italian Atila hollowed out the metal ball and added iron or lead to adjust the quality. 19 10, kasper Berg changed the metal ball into metal pieces with different weights and sizes. The first World Weightlifting Championship was held in Piccadilly Circus, London. 1 At the1Olympic Games held in Athens in 1996, weightlifting was listed as an official event. At that time, athletes were not graded by weight, only one-handed clean and jerk and two-handed clean and jerk. 1920 In the 7th Olympic Games, athletes were divided into five grades according to their weight, and they were changed to snatch with one hand and clean and jerk with both hands. This laid the basic way of modern weightlifting competition. 1924 changed to grab the clean and jerk with one hand and push and grab the clean and jerk with both hands. 1928 Cancel one-handed lifting and keep three forms of two-handed lifting. Because the recommendation is easy to hurt the athlete's lumbar spine, it is difficult to grasp the referee's scale. After the weightlifting competition in 1972 Olympic Games, the recommendation was officially cancelled. From 65438 to 0896, weightlifting was included in the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens. However, at that time, there was no hierarchy among athletes. No matter how heavy they were, whoever lifted the most weight would win. This situation continued until the 1920 Olympic Games. From 65438 to 0920, weightlifting became a regular event in the Olympic Games. 1932 Olympic Games, weightlifting is divided into five heavyweight categories and three official events-snatch, clean and jerk and push. In Sydney Olympic Games, men's weightlifting has developed to eight levels, but no push has been established since 1972. Since then, weightlifting has not changed at the Olympic Games, but there has been a major change at the Sydney Olympic Games, that is, weightlifting is no longer a male patent at the Olympic Games, and women's weightlifting has entered the Olympic stage for the first time in history. Female players compete in seven levels.

Modern competitive weightlifting emerged at the end of 18, and it was first prevalent in Europe. 65438+In the early 1980s, first in Britain, and then in the United States, people began to list weightlifting as an official competition.

The first official international weightlifting competition was the first Olympic Games held in Greece in 1896. At that time, there was no level in the weightlifting competition, only one-handed lifting and two-handed lifting, and the results were calculated separately. Albert Elliot of Britain won the one-handed lift with a score of 7 1 kg, and Friedrich Zhan Sen of Denmark won the two-handed lift with a score of 1 1.5 kg. Until 1904, these two weightlifting methods were still used in the third Olympic Games. In view of the lack of perfect weightlifting competition rules at that time, no athletes participated in the Olympic weightlifting competition from 1908 to 19 12.

19 14 World War I broke out, and no world weightlifting competition was held for the next six years. According to the book "World Weightlifting History" written by the Historical Committee of the International Weightlifting Federation, Nuremberg kasper Berg first exhibited a barbell, also known as Berg Barbell, at the Frankfurt Sports Game Exhibition in 19 10. The use of barbells has been used to this day, which is a milestone in the history of world weightlifting development.

1920 In the 7th Olympic Games, the weightlifting competition was officially resumed, and it was divided into five levels according to weight. That is, sub-lightweight (60 kg), lightweight (67.5 kg), middleweight (75 kg), lightweight (82.5 kg) and heavyweight (above 82.5 kg). The movements of the competition were changed to one-handed snatch, one-handed clean and jerk and two-handed clean and jerk.

1924 In the weightlifting competition of the 8th Olympic Games, except that the weight is still divided into five levels, the number of competition moves has increased to five, namely, the original three events plus two-handed push and two-handed snatch.

1928 During the 9th Olympic Games, the competition time was too long due to the increase of the above events and trials. After discussion and decision by representatives of various countries, the original five events were changed to three, namely, two-handed push, two-handed snatch and two-handed clean and jerk. These three rules are always used in 1972. In terms of weight classification, the 1947 World Weightlifting Championship adopted the proposal of Egypt, a powerful weightlifting country at that time, and upgraded from level 5 to level 6, adding the lightest weight (below 56 kg). Four years later, the weight standard of the original heavyweight was raised to more than 90 kg, and the sub-heavyweight (more than 82.5 kg to 90 kg) was added. Pass through seven levels from now on 1972.

Since the 20th Olympic Games in 1972, the weightlifting competition has increased to nine levels, namely, the second lightest weight level (below 52kg) and the super heavyweight level (above110kg), and the heavyweight level has been changed to110kg.. In the same year, the Executive Committee of the International Weightlifting Federation proposed to cancel the recommendation, stipulating that there are only two ways of snatch and clean and jerk in international competitions from now on. Starting from this year, it has also been made clear that the World Youth Weightlifting Championship will be held once a year, and no one is over 20 years old. During the 2nd1Olympic Games, it was increased to 10, with an increase of 100 kg.

The following year, at the 3rd 1977 World Weightlifting Championships, the names of the heavyweights were officially changed to be called by weight, that is, the highest limit of each heavyweight was used as the level name, which has been used ever since. 10 is 54kg, 59kg, 64kg, 70kg, 83kg and 96544 respectively. The events are still snatch and clean and jerk.

The 6th World Weightlifting Championships. The former Soviet Union entered the competition for the first time, and Novak won the light heavyweight championship; Duni of Egypt and Anderson of Sweden won welterweight and welterweight respectively. American athletes won the lightweight and heavyweight competitions. The following year, the 7th World Weightlifting Championship was held in Philadelphia, USA, and American athletes won six categories. 65438-0949 In the 8th World Weightlifting Championships held in The Hague, the Netherlands, Egyptian athletes showed their skills and won welterweight, lightweight and middleweight championships, while Iran's Nande won the lightest heavyweight championship, while American athletes only won two championships.

In the 9th World Championships held in 1950 and 195 1, the champions were won by the United States, Egypt and Iran respectively. 1953 At the 11th World Weightlifting Championships, the former Soviet Union rose suddenly and won the team championship. From then on, until the 36th World Weightlifting Championships in 1982, the team champions were won by the former Soviet Union except Poland in 1965 and Bulgaria in 1972 and 1974. China athletes began to participate in the World Weightlifting Championships from 1977. At present, China men's weightlifting has reached the fourth level in the world.

With the development of men's weightlifting, women's weightlifting has gradually become popular in Europe and America since the 1940s. 1984 The United States organized the first women's weightlifting exchange competition, with 12 countries participating. In the same year, the International Weightlifting Federation approved and adopted the new international weightlifting rules at the Los Angeles Congress, officially included women's weightlifting in the competition, and formulated nine heavyweight standards for women's weightlifting competition. 1 987101October 31~1kloc-0/October1The first World Women's Weightlifting Championship was held in Daytona Beach, USA. 99 athletes from 22 countries and regions participated in the competition. The result of the champion was declared as the world record of women's weightlifting.

Subsequently, the second world women's weightlifting championship was held in Jakarta, Indonesia in February, 1988, and the third world women's weightlifting championship was held in Manchester, England in 10. Now more and more countries and regions have carried out women's weightlifting.