Hampton Morris
Hampton Miller Morris is an American weightlifter. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he won bronze in the men's 61kg event. He is a four-time gold medalist at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships. He also currently holds both the junior and senior clean and jerk world records in the men's 61kg class.
Career
Morris won the gold medal in the men's 61kg event at the 2021 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He won the silver medal in his event at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games held in Colombia. Morris was also one of the flagbearers for the United States during the opening ceremony.Morris won the gold medal in the men's 61kg event at the 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Heraklion, Greece. Lifting 160kg in the Clean & Jerk also was a junior world record.
He won the gold medal in his event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. Morris also set a new junior world record of 162kg in the Clean & Jerk. He improved this record to 163kg at the 2022 Pan American Junior Weightlifting Championships held in Lima, Peru.
Morris competed in the men's 61kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. He won the gold medal in his event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina. He also won the gold medal in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events.
On September 6, 2023, Morris won the gold medal in the clean and jerk at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships men's 61kg, becoming the first American man to win a gold medal at a World Championship since 1972.
On August 7, 2024, Morris became the first male U.S. weightlifter to win an Olympic medal since 1984, with his bronze in the men's 61kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
He won the gold medal in his event at the 2025 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Cali, Colombia. He competed in the 65kg weight class after the IWF updated the bodyweight categories from June 1, 2025 onwards.