Can you explain to me about weighlifting ?

Question

In weighlifting, what is clean, what is jerk and what is snatch and how does the whole competition runs ?

Answer 1

The clean & Jerk lift is made up of 2 parts:

The clean is the lifting of the bar in ONE motion so that is resting across the front of the shoulders and top of the chest. Then once the lifter is settled the Jerk is made to get the weights above the head in one motion and locked elbows.

The SNATCH involves lifting the weights in ONE continuous motion with locked elbows from the floor to fully extended above the head

The SNATCH is much harder and that is why the weights forthe snatch lifted by the competitors is less than the CLEAN & JERK