Article of footwear for weightlifting

A sole structure for an article of footwear comprising:

• a base component and a wedge component;
• the base component having a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region, and including a forward base portion and a rearward base portion;
• the forward base portion of the base component including a forward lateral flange and a forward medial flange;
• the wedge component extending from the midfoot region to the heel region and including a forward portion having a rearward medial flange and a rearward lateral flange;
• wherein the forward lateral flange of the base component abuts the rearward lateral flange of the wedge component;
• wherein the forward medial flange of the base component abuts the rearward medial flange of the wedge component;
• and
• wherein the rearward base portion includes a first set of through-holes extending from a proximal surface of the base component to a distal surface of the base component, and the wedge component includes a second set of through-holes that are aligned with the first set of through-holes.

A sole structure for an article of footwear comprising:

• a base component and a wedge component the base component having a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region, and including a forward base portion and a rearward base portion;
• the forward base portion of the base component including a forward lateral flange and a forward medial flange;
• the wedge component extending from the midfoot region to the heel region and including a forward portion having a rearward medial flange and a rearward lateral flange;
• wherein the forward lateral flange of the base component abuts the rearward lateral flange of the wedge component, and the forward medial flange of the base component abuts the rearward medial flange of the wedge component;
• wherein distal surfaces of each of the rearward lateral flange and the rearward medial flange of the wedge component slope downwardly and inwardly toward a central region of a base portion of the wedge component;
• the sole structure further comprising multiple support fins arranged at each of the medial and lateral sides of the wedge component, wherein each of the multiple support fins is coupled with an upper surface of the base portion of the wedge component, and further extends upwardly and inwardly toward a sloped distal surface of one or the other of the rearward lateral flange and the rearward medial flange;
• and wherein a forward facing surface of each of two or more of the multiple support fins is parallel-planar relative to a rearward facing surface of an adjacent one of the multiple support fins.

An article of footwear comprising:

• a base component having a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region;
• wherein the base component has a forward base portion and a rearward base portion, and a sloped proximal surface at which the base component decreases in height from the forward base portion to the rearward base portion;
• a wedge component overlying the rearward base portion and tapering in height from a rear extent of the wedge component to a foremost extent of the wedge component;
• wherein the wedge component includes a tongue at the foremost extent, and wherein the tongue has a sloped distal surface that abuts and is coextensive with the sloped proximal surface of the base component.