IWF120y/73 – 2000: Tara Nott (USA), the first female lifter with Olympic gold

On September 17, 2000 the weightlifting family was in a celebratory mode at the Sydney Olympics. On that day, after more than 100 years only with male participation, the Games presented the first-ever female competition, the women’s 48kg category. It was the beginning of a successful road that presently encompasses perfect gender equality between men and women in the greatest sports event on the planet (in Paris 2024, weightlifting was represented by 60 male and 60 female lifters). After fierce competition at that inaugural event...