Khadzhimurat Magomedovich Akkaev is a Russian weightlifter.
Oleg Perepetchenov is a Russian powerlifter and former weightlifter.
Diego Fernando Salazar Quintero is a Colombian weightlifter, Olympic medalist and two times gold medal winner at the Pan American Games. He was born in Baranquilla.
Liu Chunhong is a Chinese weightlifter.
Chen Wei-ling is from Tainan, Taiwan. She is an Olympic weightlifter and powerlifter.
Szymon Piotr Kołecki is a Polish former Olympic Champion weightlifter and current mixed martial artist. He was the silver medalist at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and a gold medalist at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, both in the 94 kg categories.
Yuderqui Maridalia Contreras, also known as Yudelkis Contreras, is a Dominican Republican 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.
Eko Yuli Irawan is an Indonesian weightlifter, Olympian, and World Champion competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 61 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Christine Girard is a Canadian weightlifter from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. She competes in the 63 kg division. Girard was the first Canadian female to win a medal in weightlifting when she won gold at the 2012 London Olympics. She also won Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games titles in her weight class and has won multiple medals in each of those competitions. She holds the Commonwealth games record and the Pan-American Games record in the Clean and Jerk.
Iván Cambar is a Cuban weightlifter.
José Leonardo Ocando is a Venezuelan weightlifter. His personal best is 342 kg.
Jeffrey Michael Wittmer in St. Louis, Missouri is a weightlifter for the United States.
Navab Nassirshalal is an Iranian retired weightlifter who won a gold medal in the men's 105 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He began weightlifting at the age of 15 and has also won a bronze medal in the 94 kg class snatch at the 2007 Asian Weightlifting Championships, silver in the 94 kg clean and jerk and bronze overall at the 2009 edition, and gold in the 105 kg category in 2012.
Norayr (Norik) Vardanyan is an Armenian and American weightlifter.
Boady Santavy is a Canadian weightlifter from Sarnia, Ontario.
Francisco Antonio Mosquera Valencia is a Colombian weightlifter, World Champion, three-time Pan American Champion and Pan American Games Champion competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 61 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Jhonatan Rivas Mosquera is a Colombian weightlifter, Pan American Champion and Pan American Games Champion competing in the –94 kg category until 2018 and 96 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Verónica Estela Saladín Tolentino is a weightlifter from the Dominican Republic. She won the silver medal in the women's +87 kg event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru. She is also a three-time silver medalist at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships and a two-time medalist, including gold, at the Central American and Caribbean Games.
Keydomar Giovanni Vallenilla Sánchez is a Venezuelan weightlifter. In 2021, he won the silver medal in the men's 96 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He won the gold medal in the men's 89 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.
Marco Túlio Gregório Machado is a Brazilian weightlifter. He won the bronze medal in the men's 96 kg event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay. He is also a three-time silver medalist at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships.
