Weightlifting

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The weightlifting or weight lifting is based on lifting series of metal discs that are progressively heavier sport. Practitioners of this sport do it for fun, competition or as a way to develop their muscles. As a competitive sport is very popular, especially in the United States, the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Finland, Turkey and Cuba. 

The weightlifter is an official Olympic sport since the 1896 Summer Olympics although until the 1924 Summer Olympics did not have a regular presence. It is held for 10 days and consists of two tests: 

1- torn mode: the athlete must lift the barbell at arms length from the floor above her head in one motion. 

2- lifting mode: the athlete should raise bar from the ground with a first movement to the shoulder and the second movement raise it over his head. 

the International Weightlifting Federation (FEI), allows 250 athletes, 176 men divided into 8 categories, ranging from less than 56 kg to more than 105 kg; and 74 female athletes, divided into seven categories, ranging from less than 48 kg to over 75 kg.  

In the Olympic Games or international championships Games, competitors weightlifter, in the form of start, usually they raise from 41 to 68 kilograms per over his body weight and mode two times, from 82 to 100 kilograms. The lifter to get the greatest added weight lifting in both categories wins the competition. If two competitors in the same category lift the same weight, the winner is declared to lower body weight. 

In the 1980s lifters of the USSR dominated international competitions in the category of over 108 kg, reaching and exceeding 210 kilograms in the snatch and 265 kilograms in two - stroke mode, for a total of 465 kilograms. Until 1956 tests weightlifting with one hand in international competitions will not be recognized.