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Hi, I do weightlifting, also called Olympic-style weightlifting, for a living
Weightlifting, also called Olympic-style weightlifting, or Olympic weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
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Olympic weightlifting
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Olympic weightlifting
Weightlifting, also called Olympic-style weightlifting, or Olympic weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates. The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk. Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and the combined total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category. Bodyweight categories are different for male and female competitors. A lifter who fails to complete at least one successful snatch and one successful clean and jerk also fails to "total", and therefore receives an "incomplete" entry for the competition.
Istvan Javorek
István Javorek (born January 6, 1943) is a sports conditioning coach. Coach Javorek is the retired head strength and conditioning coach at Johnson County Community College. He supervised the strength and conditioning program for  JCCC’s 18 sports and serves as a professor emeritus of fitness in the physical education department. He has been married to Julia Javorek since 1968, and they have one child, Dr. Henriette A. Javorek. He now lives in Overland Park, Kansas. He is the new strength and conditioning coach at Overland Park racquet club. In 1964, Javorek graduated from college and by 1968 was a coach at the Clujana Athletic Club in Cluj, Romania.
Carmen Pata
Carmen Pata is a professional weightlifter, having competed in Olympic-style weightlifting, or Olympic weightlifting and Strongman since 2001. Carmen Pata has won numerous awards in Strongman competitions, Pan American Games, World Masters Games, and the U.S. National Meet, including a 1st-place finish at the 2013 PanAm Games in Chicago, a 1st-place finish at the U.S. National meet in 2012 in Savannah, Georgia, and was recognized as Minnesota's Strongest Man in 2010. Carmen Pata is still highly competitive in the +105 kg weight class. Pata continues to coach, train, and develop young athletes. He is the head Strength and Conditioning coach at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls where he is actively involved in all of the varsity sports team on campus and plays a major part in the community.
Gayle Hatch
Gayle Hatch (born May 7, 1939) is a USA Weightlifting Senior U.S. International Coach. He served as Head Coach of the men’s 2004 USA Olympic Weightlifting Team in Athens, Greece. Additionally, Hatch is a member of the USA Strength and Conditioning Coaches Hall of Fame, the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame and the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. The Gayle Hatch Weightlifting Team has won 49 USA Weightlifting National Championships. Gayle Hatch athletes have competed in 1984, 1988 and 1992 US Olympic Weightlifting Teams and twelve USA World Teams. Some of the distinguished lifters include Olympian and World Team Members Bret Brian, Tommy Calandro, Blair Lobrano, and Matt Bruce.
Mark Henry
Mark Jerrold Henry (born June 12, 1971) is an American powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter, strongman, and professional wrestler, who is currently signed to WWE as a producer. He was a two-time Olympian in 1992 and 1996 and a gold, silver, and bronze medalist at the Pan American Games in 1995. As a powerlifter, he was WDFPF World Champion (1995) and a two-time U.S. National Champion (1995 and 1997) as well as an all-time raw world record holder in the squat and deadlift. Currently, he still holds the WDFPF world records in the squat, deadlift and total and the USAPL American record in the deadlift since 1995.
Yuderqui Contreras
Yuderqui Maridalia Contreras, also known as Yudelkis Contreras, (born March 27, 1986) is a Dominican Republican female weightlifter. She went to the 2008 Summer Olympics where she was 5th. After the Games, she was accused of failing a doping control, but the case ended with her name cleared. She was one of the two athletes that represented her home country in weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She failed her three attempts in the snatch stage ending with no mark. Contreras is a two-time bronze medal winner at the World Weightlifting Championships: 2005 and 2010. She was awarded Dominican Republic Athlete of the year in 2005, and as of 2012, she have been awarded Female Weightlifting Athlete of the Year six times.
Weightlifting in Armenia
Weightlifting was introduced to Armenia in the late 1920s and became widely practiced after World War II. Today, it is one of the country's most popular sports. The first weightlifters from Soviet Armenia made successful appearances the international stage in the 1970s. Vardan Militosyan won a silver at the 1976 Olympics, and later Yurik Vardanyan became an Olympic, World and European champion through the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Oksen Mirzoyan and Yurik Sarkisyan rose to top positions in the 1980s. After its independence from the Soviet Union, Armenia successfully held its weightlifting traditions and continues to be one of the strongest nations in Europe.