USA Weightlifting Team Opens Olympic Competition Wednesday
PARIS - The long wait is almost over. Weightlifting at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 kicks off this week and Team USA’s five weightlifters are ready to chase their dreams and represent their country. Day one kicks off August 7th and will feature Hampton Morris in the 61 kg session and Jourdan Delacruz in the 49 kg session. Morris competes at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, followed by Delacruz at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. Every lift can be watched via NBC Peacock in the United States. Full athlete bios and direct watch links to their respective schedules are available via the USAW Paris Olympic Corner.
USA Weightlifting Paris Olympic Schedules
TV channels: CNBC, USA Network
Paris Olympics Weightlifting Page
Aug. 7:
Hampton Morris 61kg at 3:00 p.m. local | 9:00 a.m. ET
Jourdan Delacruz 49kg at 7:30 p.m. local | 1:30 p.m. ET
Aug. 9
Olivia Reeves 71kg at 7:30 p.m. local | 1:30 p.m. ET
Aug. 10
Wes Kitts 102kg at 11:30 a.m. local | 5:30 a.m. ET
Aug. 11
Mary Theisen-Lappen +81kg at 11:30 a.m. local | 5:30 a.m. ET
The Team at a Glance
Team USA comes in with Reeves ranked No. 1 at 71 kg, Morris ranked No. 2 at 61 kg, Delacruz ranked No. 4 at 49 kg, Theisen-Lappen ranked No. 5 at +81 kg, and Kitts earning the continental representative spot at 102 kg. Delacruz and Kitts are competing in their second Olympic Games following Tokyo 2020. Morris (20) and Reeves (21) have both set the world on fire in the past year, with Morris entering competition holding 20 American records and the junior and senior clean & jerk world records (176 kg), and Reeves entering with 15 American records, including three from the 2024 USAW National Championships (snatch, clean & jerk) where she lifted 120/151/271 just weeks ago in Pittsburgh. In her last international showing, Reeves swept the 71 kg podium at the IWF World Cup. Theisen-Lappen rounds out the team as a 2023 World Championships silver medalist, and in July 2024 she jerked 188 kg from blocks, 1 kg over the super heavyweight world record.
U.S. weightlifters have combined for 47 medals (16 gold, 17 silver, 14 bronze) throughout Olympic history, with five coming since the Olympic Games Sydney 2000. Tara Nott (Sydney 2000) and Charles Vinci (Rome 1960) are the United States’ most recent gold medalists, and a medal in Paris would extend the country’s consecutive streak to three Games thanks to Sarah Robles earning super heavyweight bronze in Rio 2016 and her and Kate Nye (now Vibert) collecting bronze and silver, respectively, in Tokyo.