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BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. — The Power Partners train together, they help each other and soon a member will represent the East Tennessee team on the world stage. They are a training team for the Special Olympics, mostly training in a gym in Blount County.

Four Special Olympics athletes have defied the odds by qualifying for the Ohio powerlifting championship this weekend."Seeing these athletes, getting to see them every week. They have every excuse not to be here really motivates me," said head coach Zach ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - 93-year-old Fred Mullin has a simple philosophy, and it has to do with powerlifting. “You lift as much as you can, then you add a little more,” said Mullins. Fred is a former Olympic powerlifter, winning a silver medal back in the ...

Devlin “Rock” Maloney, a senior at Lawrence High School, earned a gold medal in bench press at the Special Olympics New Jersey 2025 Regional Powerlifting Competition on April 12. The event took place in New Jersey and featured athletes from across the ...

Mary Theisen-Lappen followed her Olympic debut with her second podium finish at the World Weightlifting Championships.

Traditionally, explosive weightlifting has been reserved for sprinters, but distance runners can also benefit from including these power-producing exercises in their strength and conditioning program. Olympic lifts and their variations can complement ...

PARIS — Venezuela’s powerlifting champion didn’t know when her hands would stop trembling after setting a Games record at the Paris Paralympics on Thursday. “I’m out of words, I’m emotional,” Clara Sarahy Fuentes Monasterio said after bench ...

CHICAGO -- A 20-year-old powerlifter from Chicago's Norwood Park neighborhood competed last week in the Special Olympics in Seattle. Aiden Fallon competed in deadlift, squat and benchpress. He did 300 pounds in deadlift - a personal best. He came in 5th ...

Sharlyssa Amaya, 169 pounds, Dwyer senior: Placed fifth at Class 3A state final in Olympic; regional champion in traditional and Olympic; district champion in traditional (325 total) and Olympic (340 total). Jayda Bell, weightlifting, Park Vista.