Strength Sports

Sports built around raw strength or power: weightlifting, powerlifting, strongman, Highland games and bodybuilding.

8 sports in strength sports.

Strength Sports
🇺🇸global

CrossFit

Timed multi-discipline fitness sport blending weightlifting, gymnastics and metabolic conditioning.

1 per teamIndividualindoor
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Strength Sports
🇬🇧regional

Highland Games

Scottish heavy-event athletics — caber toss, stone put, weight over bar, hammer throw and Highland dance.

1 per teamIndividualoutdoor
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Strength Sports
🇷🇺regional

Kettlebell Sport

Russian competitive lifting sport — how many kettlebell jerks or snatches you can do in 10 minutes.

1 per teamIndividualindoor
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Strength Sports
🇷🇺regional

Mas-Wrestling

Sakha stick-pulling sport — two competitors sit sole-to-sole and pull a wooden stick toward themselves to win.

1 per teamIndividualindoor
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Strength Sports
🇺🇸global

Powerlifting

Strength sport in which competitors attempt maximum single-repetition lifts in three movements — Back Squat, Bench Press, and Deadlift — with sum of best lifts (Total) determining the winner.

1–30Individualindoor
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Strength Sports
🇮🇸global

Strongman

Strength sport of moving huge unconventional weights — atlas stones, log press, deadlifts and yoke walks.

1 per teamIndividualoutdoor
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Strength Sports
🇬🇷major

Tug of War

Team strength contest — two eight-a-side teams pull opposite ends of a rope until one is dragged over a central line.

8 per teamTeamoutdoor
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Strength Sports Olympic
🇬🇷global

Weightlifting

Olympic sport in which athletes lift a loaded barbell overhead in two competition lifts: the Snatch (single motion from floor to overhead) and Clean & Jerk (two-motion lift to shoulders then overhead).

1–20Individualindoor
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