Weightlifting is graded according to the weight of athletes, which started from the 7th Olympic Games in 1920. At that time, there were five heavyweights, namely, sub-lightweight (60 kg), lightweight (67.5 kg), middleweight (75 kg), lightweight (82.5 kg) and heavyweight (above 82.5 kg).
1947 World Weightlifting Championship adopted the proposal of Egypt, a powerful weightlifting country at that time, and added another level-the lightest weight level (below 56kg). 195 1 was changed to level 7, which raised the weight standard of the original heavyweight to over 90kg and increased the sub-heavyweight (from 82.5kg to 90kg).
From then on, it reached 1972. Since the 20th Olympic Games in 1972, the weightlifting competition has increased to nine levels, with the second lightest heavyweight (below 52kg) and extra heavyweight (above 1 10kg) added, and the heavyweight was changed to110. 1976 During the 2nd1Olympic Games, it was increased to 10, with an increase of 100 kg. 1996 Olympic Games, although the level is still 10, but the weight has changed, specifically, 54 kg, 59 kg, 64 kg, 70 kg, 76 kg, 83 kg, 9 1 kg, 99 kg, 108 kg and. 1998, in line with the trend of "Olympic slimming", the International Weightlifting Federation took the initiative to reduce the men's 10 level to eight levels: 56 kg, 62 kg, 69 kg, 77 kg, 85 kg, 94 kg, 105 kg and 105 kg or more. At the same time, women are also adjusted to seven levels: 48 kg, 53 kg, 58 kg, 63 kg, 69 kg, 75 kg and above.