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First, weightlifting is a sport. So is, for example, gymnastics and gymnasts are very strong.
Second, to be good at certain sports you need to work at developing your strength -- look e.g. at American football.
Of course there are sports where you can't expect to gain significant strength -- from table tennis to long-distance running.
I don't think of weightlifting and gymnastics as sports, but my definitions don't matter, so you're right. I can't think of many other examples where you actually gain strength from sport though. Rock climbing perhaps?
Most sports build strength specific to their particular task.
Swimmers (other than long-distance) have pretty huge muscles. A bunch of track-and-field sports rely on explosive strength -- from javelin throw to long jump. Hard martial arts build strength, so does wrestling. It's really not difficult to come up with examples -- e.g. look at pictures of olympic athletes, notice who's ripped :-)
I should have been more specific, my bad. I've been thinking in my head about strength per se, not muscular endurance or explosiveness. I think that those examples build endurance, but not so much strength.
I think that in a lot of sports, you don't build much strength (per se) by participating in the sport, but you need strength to be good at it, and so competitive athletes lift weights.