A two-time European weightlifting champion, Pielieshenko finished fourth in the 85kg light-heavyweight category at the Rio Games in 2016. He had not competed since 2018 when he failed a drug test ...

As a representative of the Noble and Greenough School, the heavyweight won the M.I.T. high school weightlifting contest last year. Earlier this year, Doty, Ed McKirdy, and George Skokan matched ...

while heavyweight Yuri Zaitsev benefitted from the expulsion of Bulgaria's Valentin Hristov. The Eastern Bloc boycott of the Games means that the most dominant forces in weightlifting at the time ...

Henry burst onto the scene at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he competed in weightlifting in the super-heavyweight division. Three years later at the Pan American Games, Henry ...

Oleksandr Pielieshenko was a two-time European weightlifting champion and member of the country's 2016 Olympic team Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko, has died during the conflict with Russia. Pielieshenko finished fourth in the light-heavyweight 85kg classing at the Rio Olympics in 2016 was ...

The world’s elite weightlifting athletes return to the Olympic platform ... competition, and ends August 4 when defending Olympic heavyweight champion Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia attempts to extend ...

while heavyweight Yuri Zaitsev benefitted from the expulsion of Bulgaria's Valentin Hristov. The Eastern Bloc boycott of the Games means that the most dominant forces in weightlifting at the time ...