Events in Sport
- 1891-03-28 1st world weightlifting championship won by Edward Lawrence in London, England
- 1922-04-29 1st official International Weightlifting Federation Champ in Tallinn, Estonia
- 1948-08-11 The weightlifting competition at the London Olympics concludes with the US (4) and Egypt (2) dominant, combining to win all of the 6 gold medals
- 1956-11-26 American weightlifter Charles Vinci wins bantamweight gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics with world-record 3-lift (snatch, clean & jerk, overhead press) total of 342.5 kilograms
- 1960-09-07 American weightlifter Charles Vinci wins 2nd consecutive bantamweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics with world-record equalling 3-lift (snatch, clean & jerk, overhead press) total of 345.0 kilograms
- 1983-07-30 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
- 1984-06-01 Russian super heavyweight weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev snatches world record 211 kg
- 2008-08-16 South Korean weightlifter Jang Mi-Ran wins the women's unlimited (+75 kg) division at the Beijing Olympics by breaking world records 5 times: once in snatch, twice in clean-and-jerk, and twice in total
- 2008-08-18 Belarus weightlifter Andrei Aramnau breaks 3 world records, for the snatch, clean & jerk, and total, on the way to winning the men's 105kg gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
- 2016-08-09 Chinese weightlifter Deng Wei sets a world record of 147kg in the clean & jerk, and another for a total score of 262kg, to win the women's 63kg gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
- 2016-08-10 Weightlifter Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan sets a world record 214kg in the clean & jerk, and finishes with 379kg overall, to win the gold medal in the men's 77kg at the Ro de Janeiro Olympics
- 2016-08-16 Georgian weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze sets a world record of 473 total kilograms to win the men's +105kg gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
- 2018-03-10 Two girls aged 8 and 6 become the first female weightlifters to appear on Iranian television after a protest
- 2021-06-21 New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is the first openly transgender athlete to be selected for the Olympics
- 2021-07-26 Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz makes history becoming the first athlete from the Philippines to win gold at the Olympics in the 55kg class at the Tokyo Games
Birthdays in Sport
- 1884-01-21 Katie Sandwina [Katie Brumbach], Austrian-American weight-lifter (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1952)
- 1908-04-21 Louis Hostin, French weightlifter (Olympic gold 1932, 36), born in Saint-Étienne, France (d. 1998)
- 1914-06-08 Joseph DePietro, American weightlifter (Olympic gold -56kg 1948), born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 1999)
- 1921-01-12 John Davis, American weightlifter (Olympic gold bantamweight 1948, heavyweight 1952), born in Smithtown, New York (d. 1984)
- 1924-05-30 Norbert Schemansky, American weightlifter (Olympic gold heavyweight 1952, silver 1948, bronze 1960, 64), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2016)
- 1924-10-03 Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold Middle-heavyweight 1956, 60), born in Mordovo, Tambov Oblast, Russia (d. 2012)
- 1928-09-06 Rudolf Plyukfelder, Soviet light heavyweight lifter (Olympic gold 1964), born in Novoorlivka, Ukraine
- 1928-11-01 James Bradford, American heavyweight weightlifter (Olympic silver 1952, 56), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2013)
- 1929-03-23 Rafael Chimishkyan, Georgian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 60kg 1952; World C'ship gold 60kg 1954, 55), born in Tbilisi, Georgia (d. 2022)
- 1929-06-29 Pete George, American weightlifter (Olympic gold middle-heavyweight 1952, silver 1948, 56), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2021)
- 1929-11-22 Ben Helfgott, Polish-British Holocaust survivor, Olympian (1956, 1960), champion weightlifter, and Holocaust educator, born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland (d. 2023)
- 1930-06-27 Tommy Kono, American weightlifter (Olympic gold 67.5kg 1952, 82.5kg 1956; silver 75kg 1960; World C'ship gold x 6), born in Sacramento, California (d. 2016)
- 1932-10-17 Paul Anderson, American light super heavyweight lifter (Olympic gold 1956)
- 1933-02-28 Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (Olympic bantamweight gold 1956, 60), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2018)
- 1935-06-01 Jim George, American weightlifter (Olympic silver light heavyweight 1960; bronze 1956; WR snatch, clean & jerk 1956), born in Akron, Ohio
- 1935-12-05 Yury Vlasov, Ukrainian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR heavyweight 1960, 64; World C'ship gold x 4) and writer, born in Makeyevka, Ukraine (d. 2021)
- 1936-11-16 Isaac Berger, American weightlifter (Olympic gold 60kg 1956, silver 1960, 64; World C'ship gold 1958, 61), born in Jerusalem, Palestine (d. 2022)
- 1938-01-28 Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR +90 kg 1964, 68: World C'ships gold 1964, 65, 66, 68), born in Uspenka, Ukraine (d. 2016)
- 1941-04-05 Viktor Kurentsov, Belarusian weightlifter (Olympic gold middleweight 1968; silver 1964; 5 x World C'ship gold middleweight), born in Tukhinka, Belarus (d. 2021)
- 1941-12-23 Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter, born in Auderghem, Belgium (d. 1975)
- 1942-01-07 Vasiliy Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold 1972, 76), born in Miloslavsky District, Soviet Union (d. 2011)
- 1943-11-06 Ken Patera, American weightlifter, and professional wrestler, born in Portland, Oregon
- 1947-09-05 Pavel Pervushin, Russian weightlifter (World C'ship gold 110kg 1973; 15 x WRs), born in Ramenye, Russia (d. 2022)
- 1948-07-26 Norair Nurikian, Bulgarian weightlifter (Olympic gold men's 60kg 1972, 56kg 1976), born in Sliven, Bulgaria
- 1951-01-17 Yury Zaitsev, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 110kg 1976), born in Pobedino, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia (d. 2022)
- 1954-06-18 Viktor Mazin, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 60kg [5 x WR] 1980), born in Chernovskiye Kopi, Russia (d. 2022)
- 1956-12-04 Blagoi Blagoyev, Bulgarian weightlifter (World C'ship gold - 90kg 1991, 92, 93; Olympic silver - 82.5kg 1976), born in Veliki Preslav, Bulgaria
- 1957-07-06 Mario Martinez, US Olympic weightlifter (Olympic-4th-1988), born in Salinas, California
- 1958-01-10 Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter, born in Kyiv, Ukraine
- 1958-09-17 Daniel Nunez, Cuban weightlifter (Olympic gold 1980)
- 1961-07-28 Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter, born in Grodno, Soviet Union
- 1963-01-18 Yury Zakharevich, Soviet weightlifter, born in Tver Oblast, Russia
- 1967-01-23 Naim Suleymanoglu, Turkish weight lifter (Olympic gold 1988), born in Ptichar, Bulgaria (d. 2017)
- 1969-07-13 Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter
- 1971-06-12 Mark Henry, American 238+lbs (108+kg) weightlifter, born in Silsbee, Texas
- 1973-07-14 Halil Mutlu, Bulgarian-Turkish weightlifter (5X World Champion; Olympics - gold, 1996, 2000 & 2004), born in Postnik, Bulgaria
- 1975-08-14 Viaceslav Ivanovski, Israeli weightlifter, born in Novosibirsk, Russia
- 1978-05-12 Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iranian weightlifter and politician, born in Ardabil, Iran
- 1979-03-05 Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter (Olympic gold women's 75kg 2004; World C'ship gold 1998, 99), born in Yantai, China
- 1981-08-28 Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter, born in Żywiec, Poland
- 1982-08-15 Casey Burgener, American weightlifter
- 1983-10-09 Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter (Olympic gold 2008), born in Gangwon, South Korea
- 1988-11-26 Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Icelandic weightlifter (World's Strongest Man 2018; deadlifting WR 501kg 2020) and actor ("The Mountain" Game of Thrones), born in Reykjavík, Iceland
Deaths in Sport
- 1952-01-21 Katie Sandwina [Katie Brumbach], Austrian-American weight-lifter (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), dies at 67
- 1966-11-15 Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter (b. 1877)
- 1975-06-28 Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
- 1984-07-13 John Davis, American weightlifter (Olympic gold bantamweight 1948, heavyweight 1952), dies from cancer at 63
- 1998-06-29 Louis Hostin, French weightlifter (Olympic gold 1932, 36), dies at 90
- 1999-03-19 Joseph DePietro, American weightlifter (Olympic gold -56kg 1948), dies at 84
- 2010-01-11 Joe Rollino, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer (b. 1905)
- 2011-11-25 Vasiliy Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold 1972, 76), dies at 69
- 2012-12-22 Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold Middle-heavyweight 1956, 60), dies at 88
- 2013-03-28 Soraya Jiménez, Mexican weightlifter, dies from a heart attack at 70
- 2013-09-13 James Bradford, American heavyweight weightlifter (Olympic silver 1952, 56), dies at 84
- 2016-01-14 Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR +90 kg 1964, 68: World C'ships gold 1964, 65, 66, 68), dies at 77
- 2016-04-24 Tommy Kono, American weightlifter (Olympic gold 67.5kg 1952, 82.5kg 1956; silver 75kg 1960; World C'ship gold x 6), dies at 85
- 2016-09-07 Norbert Schemansky, American weightlifter (Olympic gold heavyweight 1952, silver 1948, bronze 1960, 64), dies at 92
- 2018-06-13 Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (Olympic bantamweight gold 1956, 60), dies at 85
- 2021-02-13 Yury Vlasov, Ukrainian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR heavyweight 1960, 64; World C'ship gold x 4) and writer, dies at 85
- 2021-04-07 Viktor Kurentsov, Belarusian weightlifter (Olympic gold middleweight 1968; silver 1964; 5 x World C'ship gold middleweight), dies at 80
- 2021-07-27 Pete George, American weightlifter (Olympic gold middle-heavyweight 1952, silver 1948, 56), dies at 92
- 2022-01-08 Viktor Mazin, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 60kg [5 x WR] 1980), dies at 67
- 2022-06-04 Isaac Berger, American weightlifter (Olympic gold 60kg 1956, silver 1960, 64; World C'ship gold 1958, 61), dies at 85
- 2022-09-24 Pavel Pervushin, Russian weightlifter (World C'ship gold 110kg 1973; 15 x WRs), dies at 75
- 2022-09-25 Rafael Chimishkyan, Georgian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 60kg 1952; World C'ship gold 60kg 1954, 55), dies at 93
- 2022-09-30 Yury Zaitsev, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 110kg 1976), dies at 71
- 2023-06-16 Ben Helfgott, Polish-British Holocaust survivor, Olympian (1956, 1960), champion weightlifter, and Holocaust educator, dies at 93