| Weightlifting at the Pan American Games | |
|---|---|
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| No. of events | 14 (men: 7; women: 7) |
Weightlifting has been a sport of the Pan American Games since the 1951 games. Women's took place at 1999 edition. [1]
Like the Olympic Games, Clean and press was perfomed along with Snatch and Cleand and Jerk. Since Clean and Press was eliminated for weightlifting program in 1972, the 1975 Pan American Games were the first held with the present format.
Updated after the 2023 Pan American Games .
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Cuba | 161 | 56 | 16 | 233 |
| 2 |  United States | 81 | 74 | 55 | 210 |
| 3 |  Colombia | 37 | 31 | 23 | 91 |
| 4 |  Canada | 18 | 22 | 40 | 80 |
| 5 |  Venezuela | 15 | 37 | 34 | 86 |
| 6 |  Ecuador | 10 | 7 | 12 | 29 |
| 7 |  Dominican Republic | 7 | 14 | 36 | 57 |
| 8 |  Mexico | 5 | 14 | 26 | 45 |
| 9 |  Puerto Rico | 3 | 10 | 12 | 25 |
| 10 |  Brazil | 3 | 5 | 16 | 24 |
| 11 |  Panama | 2 | 10 | 13 | 25 |
| 12 |  Chile | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 13 |  Argentina | 1 | 19 | 9 | 29 |
| 14 |  Netherlands Antilles | 1 | 7 | 5 | 13 |
| 15 |  Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 16 |  Guyana | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 17 |  Jamaica | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 18 |  Nicaragua | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 19 |  El Salvador | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 20 |  Barbados | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
 Guatemala | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 22 |  Peru | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 23 |  British West Indies | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 24 |  Haiti | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 25 |  Uruguay | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 |  Honduras | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (26 entries) | 348 | 330 | 329 | 1,007 | |
Weightlifting is a competitive strength sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with the aim of successfully lifting the heaviest weights. Athletes compete in two specific ways of lifting the barbell overhead. The snatch is a wide-grip lift, in which the weighted barbell is lifted overhead in one motion. The clean and jerk is a combination lift, in which the weight is first taken from the ground to the front of the shoulders, and then from the shoulders to over the head. The sport formerly included a third lift/event known as clean and press.
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