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QUEEN GOT HER CROWN! 👑
Olivia Reeves earns Team USA its first GOLD since Sydney 2000! The U.S. has now earned a medal on the women’s side for three CONSECUTIVE Olympic Games!🥇🇺🇸
117/145/262 5-for-6!
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HAMPTON MORRIS, OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDALIST! 🇺🇸
Hampton is the United States’ first men’s Olympic medalist since 1984!
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#TeamUSA's @mattie_rogers sweeps BRONZE at the #17wwc! She's the first American woman to win a medal at a weightlifting world championship in 12 years! Check out her 131kg Clean and Jerk! RT if you think she should make the #SCTop10
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Throwback Thursday: Mark Henry the first 105+kg to total 400kg at Nationals for a new Am Record! #ThrowbackThursday
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What a day for #TeamUSA! @mattie_rogers & Harrison Maurus end years-long medal droughts for #TeamUSA at the World Championships! Harrison also set a youth world record, too! #SCTop10
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.@mattie_rogers takes 🥉 in snatch with this 106kg lift at #19wwc. Watch LIVE now on espn3 >> USAW.live
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HAVE YOU SEEN OUR OLYMPIC SILVER MEDALIST?!
You go, Kate Nye!
#Tokyo2020 #Weightlifting #TeamUSA #TokyoStrong
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YES!!! #TeamUSA @roblympian with a GOOD LIFT 160kg C&J!! NOW WE WAIT!! WATCH LIVE➡️ bit.ly/SarahCompetes
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ICYMI: #TeamUSA #weightlifter @kingmorghan set an American Record at #Rio2016 ➡️ bit.ly/MorghansMagic
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NEW AMERICAN RECORD for #TeamUSA's @kingmorghan. 83kg snatch tops Olympic champion Tara Nott's 82.5kg. LIVESTREAM ➡️ bit.ly/MorghanCompetes
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WE! ARE! CRUISING! Olivia Reeves snatches 117 kg for a NEW OLYMPIC RECORD and perfect 3-for-3 snatch session! She's No. 1 heading into clean and jerks!
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#TBT to the 2000 Olympic Trials, where Tara Nott Cunningham set the American Record in clean & jerk with a 102.5kg lift. It's a record she still owns today. In Sydney, Tara became the first woman to ever to be crowned Olympic Champion in weightlifting. #iLiftClean @iwfnet
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From 🥉to 🥈!
Congratulations to #TeamUSA's @mattie_rogers whose bronze medals in both snatch & total at the 2017 World Championships have been upgraded to silver.
We look forward to seeing the @iwfnet award Mattie her new medals at an upcoming IWF event. #congrats
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#TeamUSA's Mattie Rogers goes 5 for 6 in her SILVER medal performance!
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Harrison Maurus set a NEW JUNIOR AMERICAN RECORD with a 200kg Clean and Jerk in the 85kg weight category at #18NJC!! Watch LIVE >> bit.ly/USAWLive
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YOUTH WORLD CHAMPION and new YOUTH WORLD RECORD holder @CJ__Cummings with 185kg clean & jerk at #17ywc LIVE> bit.ly/17wycLIVE
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2016 Junior Worlds ✔️
2016 Youth Worlds ✔️
2017 Youth Worlds ✔️
2017 Junior Worlds ✔️
Read about CJ's latest title>> go.teamusa.org/2tgCwdZ
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.@Mattie_Rogers hangs on for a GOOD LIFT on this 131kg clean & jerk. She goes 3 for 3 in clean & jerk, 5 for 6 on the day with a 232kg total. Watch #AO1 LIVE at @ArnoldSports>>> bit.ly/USAWLive
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She has GUTS. Let’s hear it for the grit displayed by @mattie_rogers today at #Tokyo2020.
Snatch: ✅108 -111 -112
Clean and Jerk: -138 -138 ✅138
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NEW AMERICAN RECORD FOR @mattie_rogers!
134kg clean & jerk! 6 for 6!
Medal ceremony >> bit.ly/17NatlBlue
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.@mattie_rogers goes 6 for 6, ending with 127kg clean & jerk! She's your new University and Under 25 Champion!
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🇺🇸 @TeamUSA’s Sarah Robles is the first American woman to win two Olympic weightlifting medals. She takes home #bronze at the #OlympicGames #Tokyo2020 with a 282kg total!
READ all about her historic night ➡️ go.teamusa.org/3yja8sH
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.@mattie_rogers SMASHES A 136kg CLEAN & JERK TO TAKE 🥇 AND IS YOUR 76kg NATIONAL CHAMPION!
Watch LIVE>> usaw.live
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We are #TeamUSA #Tokyo2020!
Congratulations to our largest Olympic team since 1996! We can’t wait to watch you on the world’s greatest stage this summer!
Meet Team USA >>
ow.ly/gV9z50EPQg2
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Check out @CJ__Cummings - 190kg clean & jerk! #WOW
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.@mattie_rogers went 6 for 6, sweeping gold at the 2017 National Championships. New AR, 134kg clean & jerk! USAWeightlifting.org
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.@KatherineNye6 takes 🥇 in snatch and sets new Junior World, Senior/Junior American, Senior/Junior Pan American records with this 112kg lift at #19WWC. Will she win it all? Watch live on espn3 >> USAW.live #SCtop10
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🚨🚨🚨NEW AMERICAN RECORD IN TOTAL! 🚨🚨🚨
#TeamUSA's Caitlin Hogan nails her 111kg clean & jerk to set a new American Record in total with 194kg. Watch #17WWC on ESPN3>> bit.ly/wwcESPN3
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A BIG congratulations to 2-time Olympian, Pan Am Games medalist, National Champion, WWE Legend, our friend and yours, @themarkhenry, on his induction to the Gulf Coast Hall of Fame over the weekend. Congrats, Mark!
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#TeamUSA's Harrison Maurus just set a YOUTH WORLD RECORD w/ this 192kg clean & jerk. He won the World Championship! bit.ly/17ywcLIVE
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Katherine Nye is the first American woman to win SILVER at the #OlympicGames!! Her 249kg total earns her a spot on the #Tokyo2020 podium!! Congratulations, Kate!!
#UnitedByEmotion | #StrongerTogether | #Olympics
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SHE DOES IT AGAIN! 71 kg clean and jerk 🚨AMERICAN RECORD🚨for Olivia Reeves! She lifts 150 kg to sweep GOLD at the IWF World Cup!🥇🥇🥇🇺🇸
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GET EXCITED! #TeamUSA's @KendrickJFarris competes in his THIRD #Olympics TODAY! LIVESTREAM➡️bit.ly/KendrickCompetes
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.@Tokyo2020 may be delayed until next summer, but @hellokitty is already in the Olympic spirit! Check out this @TeamUSA #hellokitty vinyl figure ready to lift! Spotted at @cvspharmacy by Olympian Carissa Gump. @sanrio @kidrobot
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What a day for #TeamUSA's @mattie_rogers, 81kg #20PanAms Champion!
Snatch
105kg 108 111🇺🇸🟢
Clean & Jerk
-135kg 135 140
Total: 251kg 🇺🇸🟢
🇺🇸=American Record
🟢=Pan American Record
More #TeamUSA action >> usaw.live/
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Massive congrats to @CJ__Cummings for making his Olympic debut today at the #Tokyo2020 Games!!
At 21 - our youngest Olympian in 21 years, he finished ninth with a 325kg total in the men’s 73kg.
Congrats to medalists Shi Zhiyong (🇨🇳), Julio Mayora (🇻🇪), Rahmat Abdullah (🇮🇩).
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.@kingmorghan GOOD LIFT with 83kg! Now to the clean and jerk. LIVE STREAM ➡️ bit.ly/MorghanCompetes
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Mattie Rogers. 2020 Olympian.
@mattie_rogers, we are SO impressed by the fight, determination and resiliency you showed on that platform today. Way to go!
#Tokyo2020 #Weightlifting #TeamUSA
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#TeamUSA's @morghanking getting ready for her Olympic debut at #Rio2016 LIVE STREAM ➡️ bit.ly/MorghanCompetes
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🚨NEW AMERICAN RECORD🚨
#TeamUSA's Wes Kitts sets a NEW AMERICAN RECORD with this 176kg snatch.
Watch #17WWC LIVE on ESPN3>> bit.ly/wwcESPN3
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Mattie Rogers secures a clean and jerk GOLD with this 135kg lift in the 76kg category at #AOFinals!
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WORLD RECORD DAY FOR HAMPTON MORRIS 🌎🏆
at 61 kg at the IWF World Cup:
SN 127 kg = American record 🇺🇸
CJ 176 kg = WORLD RECORD 🌎
T 303 kg = American record🇺🇸
Morris earned gold in the C&J and silver in the total with his performance and jumps to No. 2️⃣ in the world at 61 kg! He is the first American man to set a world record since Bob Bednarski in 1969.
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.@mattie_rogers wins GOLD in the snatch, clean & jerk and total at #AmericanOpen. She went 6 for 6. bit.ly/USAW16AO
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JUNIOR WORLD RECORDS for @CJ__Cummings ! 187kg clean & jerk and 335kg total in the 73kg session at #18WWC. Watch the World Championships live >> USAW.live
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🚨NEW AMERICAN RECORD🚨
@cj__cummings broke his own snatch record with a 142kg lift, followed up by a 143kg lift on the @RogueFitness Strength Stage a the #AO1 at the Arnold. WATCH LIVE >> bit.ly/USAWLive
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THREE WORLD RECORDS!
Olivia Reeves broke the 71 kg junior C&J and total world records too after lifting 147 kg!
6-for-6 with 115/147/262 at 71 kg🇺🇸
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3x Gold Medalist, 3x American University Record holder & WORLD UNIVERSITY CHAMPION, @mattie_rogers! MEDAL CEREMONY>> bit.ly/WorldUniLIVE
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Not since the great Robin Byrd Goad in 1994 has an American woman been named World Champion. Today #TeamUSA's @roblympian did just that... in perfect style 6 for 6 in Anaheim! #SCTop10
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🚨NEW AMERICAN AND PAN AMERICAN RECORD🚨 for @mattie_rogers - a 111kg snatch on her third attempt. She takes 🥇 in snatch in the 81kg at #20PanAms. On to the clean & jerks. Watch LIVE >> usaw.live
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For the first time in more than 20 years, the IWF crowned an American athlete as World Champion. Congrats, Sarah!! >> go.teamusa.org/2nA7TS2
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History made. Together. Get caught up on the magical night in Pattaya where @katherinenye9 was crowned World Champion and set a Junior World Record. Plus, @mattie_rogers medal performance that gave #TeamUSA women their first 1-2 podium finish >> go.teamusa.org/2kVbyt7
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#TeamUSA's @mattie_rogers sweeps 🥈 in the 71kg category at #19PanAms!
Snatch: 103kg, 106kg, 108kg (miss)
Clean & Jerk: 132kg, 136kg (miss), 140kg (miss)
Total: 238kg
Her 106kg snatch is a personal best in competition at 71kg
More from Pan Ams>> usaw.live
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.@mattie_rogers snatches 🥇at #18AO3inVegas - going 98kg, 101kg and 103kg to take GOLD in the 71kg weight category. Watch clean & jerks LIVE on the WHITE platform >> usaw.live
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WOW! New WORLD RECORD in Clean & Jerk and Total for Sohrab Moradi of the Islamic Republic of Iran! Watch #17WWC LIVE>> bit.ly/USAWLive
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🚨AMERICAN RECORD🚨
Olivia Reeves snatches 118 kg at the IWF World Cup to break her own 71 kg national record! She won gold in the snatch session as well 🥇🇺🇸
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Just spoke to #TeamUSA @jlarthur2016 about her 1st #Olympics & breaking an American Record➡️ bit.ly/JennysJaminRio
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WOW! #TeamUSA's Peyton Brown became the only American to ever win a Youth Olympic medal in Weightlifting >> go.teamusa.org/2C8AIdU
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👀15 new records for #TeamUSA's @cj__cummings at Junior Pan Ams.
Snatch: 154kg
Clean & Jerk: 193kg
Total: 347kg
All were new @iwfnet Junior World (3), Junior (3) & Senior (3) American and Junior (3) & Senior (3) Pan American Records. #Wow #USAW
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CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? 🇺🇸🥈
SILVER SECURED. 😤
Kate Nye is your silver medalist at 76 kg. #TokyoOlympics
ALT Kate Nye silver medal graphic.
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Clean & jerk #weightlifting about to begin @ #rio2016. #TeamUSA's @kingmorghan LIVE STREAM➡️ bit.ly/MorghanCompetes
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What'd you do today? Kate Nye...
•became the first U.S. women's weightlifting silver medalist
•had the best U.S result in 21 years
•won the first U.S. women's light heavyweight medal
•set two American records
#Tokyo2020 #TeamUSA #LiftLikeKate
teamusa.org/USA-Weightliftin…•
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😳💪🥇🥇🥇
@CJ__Cummings
Junior records ✔️
Senior records ✔️
American records ✔️
World records ✔️
@USWeightlifting's CJ Cummings continues to shine at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships, setting FIFTEEN records in one day.
»» go.teamusa.org/2XAFcRQ
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3-time Olympic Champion Pyrros Dimas joins USA Weightlifting as Techincal Director. Details: bit.ly/DimasjoinsUSAW
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World Record Holder. American Record Holder. Junior World Champion. CJ's day: teamusa.org/USA-Weightliftin… (vid @iwfnet)
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.@mattie_rogers is your #20Nationals Champion in the 76kg!
Snatch: 104kg 107kg🥈 -110kg
Clean & Jerk: 126kg 130kg 126kg🥇
Total: 243kg 🥇
Congrats, Mattie!
Head to >> usaw.live << to watch more from #USAWOnline #20Nationals #20AOFinals & #20YouthNationals
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.@mattie_rogers goes 5-for-6 at #AO1 at @arnoldsports going 98x/98/101/124/128/131 to total 232kg! Watch #AO1 LIVE all weekend >> bit.ly/USAWLive
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🚨🚨🚨NEW YOUTH WORLD RECORD🚨🚨🚨
#TeamUSA's Harrison Maurus breaks the first World Record of #17WWC with a 193kg clean & jerk. Tops his Youth World Record of 192kg.
WILL HE MEDAL? Watch ESPN 3 LIVE NOW >> bit.ly/wwcESPN3
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Join us in wishing a very happy birthday to Sarah Robles, who gets to celebrate from the #Tokyo2020 Olympic Games just one day before she competes! 🎉🎂🥳
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NEW AMERICAN RECORD! Sarah Robles clean and jerks 162kg on her last attempt at #AO3inVegas to break Cheryl Haworth's record of 161kg set way back in 2005! She goes 6 for 6 tonight sweeping GOLD in the +87 category! One more session happening now at usaw.live
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The #Rio2016 Women's 48kg #weightlifting competition is over! @kingmorghan brings home 6th place. YOU MADE US PROUD! #USA #TeamUSA
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🥉 HISTORY MADE 🥉
Sarah Robles becomes @TeamUSA's first woman ever to win two #Olympics #weightlifting medals and the first American to win in 57 years to win multiple Olympic weightlifting medals!
Check our #Tokyo2020 Hub for more >> bit.ly/usawTokyo
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NEW AMERICAN RECORD FOR WES KITTS! #GOODLIFT
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TODAY IS THE DAY! Get live stream info for #TeamUSA's @jlarthur2016's Olympic Debut➡️ bit.ly/JennyCompetes
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Great start to the comp! Hampton Morris goes ✅122 ❌125 ✅126 to start the day! That 126 was just one kilo under his American record.
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.@mattie_rogers wins GOLD in Snatch at #17NatUni #17U25! She went 90kg, 92kg, 95kg. Clean & Jerk next. Watch LIVE>> bit.ly/17NatUniRED
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HAMP THE CHAMP! 🥉
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RETURN TO GLORY. #TeamUSA returns to the podium at the World Championships >> go.teamusa.org/2zYCoGZ
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Harrison's second Snatch attempt of 151kg is his best at #18NJC! The Clean & Jerk portion on the 85kg weight category is next! Watch LIVE >> bit.ly/USAWLive
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Youth World Record ✔️ (193kg clean & jerk)
American Record ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ (193kg clean & jerk / 348kg total, Youth, Junior, Senior records broken)
Senior Worlds 🥉 ✔️✔️ (clean & jerk / total)
Congrats to #TeamUSA's Harrison Maurus!!
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@mattie_rogers is Tokyo Bound! ▶️ for just a few of her career highlights so far! Do you know how many World Championships in a row Mattie has medaled at?
Meet #TeamUSA #Tokyo2020 >> ow.ly/42hI50EQN5E
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