The weightlifting events saw five world records broken as Russia lifters took a clean sweep of the gold medals.

Since then, every summer an international weightlifting event has taken place in the town.

The first weightlifting event held was the two-handed lift, in a style now known as the clean and jerk.

During the 1900 Olympic Games, there was no weightlifting event.

Argentina entered three of its nineteen athletes in the weightlifting event, all male.

The two-handed lift was the first weightlifting event on 7 April.

In the 1964 Summer Olympics, the weightlifting events took place there.

It also hosted the weightlifting events at the 2010 Asian Games.

The event was the fifteenth and last weightlifting event to conclude.

Two athletes competed in two weightlifting events at the games.