Despite being one of the oldest Olympic sports – it was already played in the Games of ancient Greece – the inclusion of women's weightlifting is one of the most recent in the Olympic movement. While lifters already competed in the first Olympic Games of the modern era, although their sport was excluded between 1904 and 1920, it was not until 2000 , in Sydney , that women were eligible for medals in this discipline. Their categories differ from the masculine ones, because while they compete in eight, they only compete in seven.
When was women's weightlifting admitted as an Olympic sport?
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