RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Chinese weightlifter Meng Suping grabbed Olympic gold in the women's Over-75kg category on Sunday, as Sarah Robles claimed a rare weightlifting medal for the United States. Meng ...

Chinese weightlifter Meng Suping dropped to her knees and bowed to a packed stadium after clinching her first-ever Olympics gold in Rio, winning a round of applause that shook the Riocentro stadium.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - China ensured top place in the weightlifting medals table for the fifth successive Olympic Games when Meng Suping won her nation’s fifth gold on Sunday. Sarah Robles, in ...

She fulfilled a life-long dream to compete in the Olympics, or so she thought. Days after landing in Rio for her 48kg event, a tearful weightlifter Hou Zhihui, 19, said goodbye to Rio after she was ...

The Chinese weightlifting team decided to replace lifter Hou Zhihui of 48kg division by Meng Suping of over-75kg division as Hou suffered a knee injury before the Rio Olympic Games. Wang Guoxin, the ...