WKhadzhimurat Magomedovich Akkaev is a Russian weightlifter of Balkar descent.
WSaeid Alihosseini is a former Iranian super heavyweight weightlifter.
Wİbrahim Arat is a Turkish weightlifter competing in the –94 kg division. The 1.79 m tall athlete is a member of İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyespor in his hometown, where he is coached by Mücahit Yağcı and Selim Savaş.
WZulfiya Salakharqyzy Chinshanlo is a Kazakh weightlifter. She set a world record in the clean and jerk on 29 July 2012 at the 2012 London Olympics by lifting 131 kg.
WRoxana Cocoș is a Romanian weightlifter.
WAurimas Didžbalis is a Lithuanian Olympian weightlifter. He competes in the 94 kg class.
WMarcin Dołęga is a Polish weightlifter. He is a three-time World champion in the 105 kg weight division.
WNadezhda Alexandrovna Evstyukhina is a Russian weightlifter.
WValentin Hristov is a Bulgarian naturalized Azerbaijani weightlifter. He was initially awarded and subsequently stripped of a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, which would have been Azerbaijan's first-ever Olympic medal in this discipline.
WIlya Aleksandrovich Ilyin is a retired Kazakhstani weightlifter who has won four world championships. On 12 December, 2015 at the President's Cup in Grozny, Russia, Ilyin set two world records in the −105 kg class. He lifted 246 kg in the clean and jerk and 437 kg in the total. Ilyin was named IWF World Weightlifter of the Year four times: in 2005, 2006, 2014, and 2015.
WAleksandr Konstantinovich Ivanov is a Russian weightlifter. Prior to the 2012 London Summer Olympics, his best result was 403 kg.
WHripsime Khurshudyan is an Armenian female weightlifter.
WIryna Mikhailauna Kulesha is a Belarusian weightlifter.
WAleksandr Nikolaevich Kurlovich was a Soviet weightlifter. He trained at Armed Forces sports society in Grodno.
WAleksey Vladimirovich Lovchev is a Russian weightlifter.
WMaiya Salakharqyzy Maneza is a Kazakh weightlifter. She initially won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 63 kg category by lifting a combined weight of 245 kg and set a new Olympic record in the process. She was later stripped of her Olympic medal after a failed drug test.
WFrank Mantek is a German weightlifting coach and a retired weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the middle-heavyweight category, which also qualified as a bronze medal at world championships. In 1982 he won another combined bronze medal in the world/European championships.
WRăzvan Constantin Martin is a Romanian weightlifter. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 2012.
WTigran Gevorg Martirosyan is an Armenian weightlifter. He was awarded the Honored Master of Sports of Armenia title in 2009. Martirosyan is an Armenian Champion, three-time European Champion, World Champion and was temporarily acknowledged as the youngest Olympic medalist from Armenia before being stripped of the medal for doping violations.
WGor Minasyan is an Armenian weightlifter, and Olympic silver medalist (2016) competing in the super-heavyweight category.
WSohrab Moradi is an Iranian weightlifter who won the gold medal in the 94 kg weight division at the 2016 Olympics. He was the Asian champion in the 85 kg class in 2009 and 2012. He was banned from the sport for two years for doping, after testing positive for methadone.
WNastassia Novikava is a world championship winning weightlifter from Belarus.
WNizami Pashayev is a retired Azerbaijani athlete in weightlifting.
WSvetlana Podobedova is a Kazakh weightlifter of Russian descent.
WNijat Rahimov is an Azerbaijani-born naturalized Kazakhstani weightlifter. He represented Kazakhstan at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in the category of 77 kg, he placed first, winning the gold medal and setting a new world record with a clean and jerk lift of 214 kilograms.
WFernando Saraiva Reis is a Brazilian weightlifter. He competed at both the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Rio Games finishing 11th and 5th overall respectively. He placed 4th in the 2018 World Championships, and he is a three-time Pan American Games champion.
WAndrei Rybakou is a former Belarusian weightlifter, Olympian and two-time World Champion who competed in the 85 kg category. From 1998 to 2018 he set 6 world records, of which 5 were in the snatch which is tied with Halil Mutlu with the most male world records in the snatch.
WGabriel Sîncrăian is a Romanian weightlifter who competes in the 85 kg weight division.
WLasha Talakhadze is a Georgian weightlifter, Olympic Champion, four time World Champion, and four time European Champion competing in the super-heavyweight category. He is a three time winner of the IWF Male Lifter of the Year and the current world record holder in the snatch, the clean and jerk and the total, where his 220 kg snatch and 484 kg total are both all time world records respectively. Because of his consistent tournament success and breaking of numerous world records, he is considered by many to be the greatest super-heavyweight weightlifter of all time.
WOleksiy Pavlovych Torokhtiy is a Ukrainian weightlifter, an Olympic Gold Medalist in weightlifting until disqualified for a doping offence, winner of World and European Championships. Participant of two Olympic Games. Oleksiy is also a Member of European Weightlifting Federation Executive Committee, Deputy Chairman of Ukrainian National Olympic Commіttee Athletes Commission and the Vice-President of the Weightlifting Federation of Ukraine.
WSvetlana Kaspolatovna Tsarukaeva is a Russian weightlifter.
WNatalya Aleksandrovna Zabolotnaya is a Russian weightlifter.
WAdrian Edward Zieliński is a Polish weightlifter. He is the 2012 Olympic champion in the men's 85 kg category.
WTomasz Bernard Zieliński is a Polish weightlifter. He won gold at the 2016 European Championships in the −94 kg category.