Summer Olympics / Weightlifting Jul 18, 2021
Laurel Hubbard is set to become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Games after she was selected for the New Zealand team in the women's superheavyweight weightlifting category.
Olympics / Summer Olympics / Weightlifting May 8, 2021
New Zealand's Laurel Hubbard is on track to become the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics.
Olympics / Summer Olympics / Weightlifting May 6, 2021
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard poised to become first transgender Olympian
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is set to become the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics after qualifying for the rescheduled Tokyo Games due to a rule change, the Inside the Games website reported on Wednesday. Hubbard was effectively guaranteed a spot in the women's ...
More Sports Mar 9, 2021
Strong is beautiful for Tokyo weightlifting hopeful Sarah Davies
The 2018 Commonwealth Games 69-kg silver medalist and beauty pageant competitor hopes to serve as a role model both in the gym and on the stage.
Olympics May 28, 2016
Despite injury worries, London Olympics silver-medal winner Hiromi Miyake was named with four other weightlifters to compete in Rio de Janeiro Games on Saturday. Miyake, named to compete in the 48-kg division by the Japan Weightlifting Association, will compete in her fourth straight games. She ...
Olympics Apr 27, 2016
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Tommy Kono died Sunday in Honolulu due to complications from liver disease, the U.S. Olympic Committee said. He was 85. Kono won gold medals at the Olympics in Helsinki in 1952, and Melbourne in 1956, and captured six World Championship titles. ...
National Dec 4, 2015
Olympic journey of American weightlifting legend Kono began in WWII internment camp
by Sean Miyaguchi
While many Olympic athletes can trace their path back to high school gyms or playgrounds, weightlifting legend Tommy Kono began his journey to the Games in a most unlikely setting — a World War II internment camp for Japanese-Americans. A six-time world champion and the ...