Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The men’s one hand lift an event similar to the modern snatch was one of two weightlifting events in the Weightlifting at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. Lifters received three attempts. Each lifter performed one attempt before any began their second attempts. After each had lifted three times the top three received three more attempts.In the second weightlifting event held soon after the first only one hand was allowed in lifting the weights.