0 someone who practises the sport of weightlifting (= lifting heavy objects):
She was selected as her country's first female Olympic weightlifter.
He became a successful businessman and a champion weightlifter.
Five weightlifters were expelled from the Olympics yesterday for failing drugs tests.
For the fourth day in a row, a Chinese weightlifter set a world record.
They have all claimed a common touch—the class warrior, the potato planter and the weightlifter.
We have weightlifters, beauty culturists, professional athletes and others, each with their own fancy system, but without any sound knowledge of the physiological considerations.
As this motion starts to bring the barbell upward, the weightlifter flexes the arms to bend the elbows upward and outward.
Connelly was very quick for his position and as an avid weightlifter, also became one of the strongest players on the team.
During his career as a professional weightlifter, he won five national heavyweight championships and set 27 world records.
