0 someone who practises the sport of weightlifting (= lifting heavy objects): --
He became a successful businessman and a champion weightlifter.
She was selected as her country's first female Olympic weightlifter.
He was also a weightlifter and powerlifter for several years, competing across the world.
Despite the diagnosis he followed his dream to become a weightlifter.
Khodnegah was a weightlifter, but he had to leave this due to an injury.
This was the beginning of a series of 80 world records the weightlifter set between 1970 and 1977.
In 2002, she was voted 2nd for world weightlifter of the year.
He is an amateur weightlifter, and is talented at woodworking and metal shop.
He competed as a weightlifter when his weight was 168 pounds.
She is a former weightlifter and karate student, she is also an avid reader and cinemaphile.
