Iran is set to form its first national women's Para powerlifting team once sport has returned to normal after the coronavirus pandemic.

in athletics at the Games.Poupak Basami became the first Iranian women to participate at the Asian Weightlifting

Championships and the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships in 2019.

Asian Games weightlifting champion Hidilyn Diaz held an online clinic which helped raise money to fight

I want to thank all who donated and signed up for the weightlifting seminar," said Diaz.

and Olympic silver in her career ©Getty Images"Thank you to all who donated and participated in the weightlifting

Munich 1972 Olympic weightlifting champion Zygmunt Smalcerz has been appointed head coach of the Norwegian

 He was most recently the weightlifting coach at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado

Springs from 2010 to 2017.It is reported that Smalcerz was hired by the Norwegian Weightlifting Federation

Before his role at the US Olympic Training Center, Smalcerz was head coach for the Polish weightlifting

 "I want to set new goals for weightlifting in Norway, but there is something that I have reacted

to - the weightlifting halls here are reminiscent of what we had in Poland in the 1950s and 60s," he

Double Olympic champion and Iranian weightlifting legend Hossein Rezazadeh has been appointed director

and jerk world record in the heavyweight over-105 kilograms division, had been appointed based on his weightlifting

USA Weightlifting have announced a hosting partnership with their bordering neighbours of Canada to bring

The Canadian Weightlifting Federation (CWFHC) have joined the agreement with the North American Open

the East Series will take place in the United States in March in the same time frame as the National Weightlifting

at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus in Ohio.The rest of the US' calendar will see the National Weightlifting

East and West Series, the North American Open Finals will also be hosted in December.Phil Andrews, USA Weightlifting

 "Our organisation sees this as a tremendous opportunity to promote weightlifting and share it with

pledged to continue elite programmes for weightlifters despite recent sanctions by the International Weightlifting

Federation (IWF) on the Malaysian Weightlifting Federation (MWF).

Weightlifting will also remain in the Johor Malaysia Games, which has been postponed until 2021 due to

offences ©Getty ImagesThe Minister of Youth and Sports Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman agreed to reinstate weightlifting

Nepal Olympic Committee's (NOC) have launched a well being programme for their Tokyo 2020 Olympics athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic which has put restrictions on training in the country.

Olympic Scholarship Programme representing seven sports - archery, karate, shooting, swimming, judo, weightlifting

The man whose TV documentary helped to end Tamás Aján’s domination of world weightlifting has called

Lord of the Lifters, which was broadcast on January 5.According to a document on the International Weightlifting

From my point of view weightlifting is one of the sports where the cover-up was on a really high level

Weightlifting has enjoyed an incredible amount of growth – first junior worlds, first women’s worlds,

Schmitz, who was also weightlifting competition manager at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games, first

In the United States what’s making weightlifting so popular is CrossFit and the internet, but also what

The world of weightlifting has paid tribute to Gottfried Schodl, a man who led the sport through three

Schödl, who died in his home city of Vienna, led weightlifting through a period of unprecedented change

’.Schödl was a founding father of the European Weightlifting Federation in 1969 who oversaw three decades

of transformation during his 28-year Presidency of the International Weightlifting Federation.Tamás

Federation and Commonwealth Weightlifting Federation said: "I had the pleasure of knowing him since

Australian Sam Coffa, President of the country's weightlifting federation and former vice-president of

As the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo 2020 work on the "huge jigsaw puzzle" following the postponement of the Olympic Games because of the coronavirus pandemic, Federations are dealing with the impact on their own calendars.

optimise preparation time for athletes and ensure that they can compete at their very best".International Weightlifting

The 2021 World Weightlifting Championships are set for Lima, but the dates are currently being reviewed.United

Tamás Aján has resigned as President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), where he has

related issues.”Papandrea said: "The IWF thanks Tamás Aján for more than four decades of service to weightlifting

scandal, the Canadian professor of law Richard McLaren.Ursula Papandrea now leads the International Weightlifting

knocks over the years, reaching a low point in June 2017 when Thomas Bach, the IOC President, said weightlifting

of them medallists who have been disqualified, but in the period between Bach’s “strong signal” to weightlifting

athletes to undergo far more testing.International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach ordered weightlifting

The European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow have been pushed back from June until at least Autumn

due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Russian Weightlifting Federation President Maxim Agapitov

Agapitov, a member of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board, told Russia's

postponed.The event had initially been due to take place from April 4 to 12 ©IWFNew dates for the European Weightlifting

The Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) have been asked to decide on

which you had been continuing to operate.”Tamás Aján has stood aside as President of the International Weightlifting

following statement:“The IWF Executive Board has been attempting to take actions to clean up the sport of weightlifting

Thailand is appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after being banned from weightlifting

at Tokyo 2020 and suspended from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for multiple doping

TAWA (Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association) will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to seek

Yodbangtoey said an independent investigation had not proved any wrongdoing.Thailand has won more medals in weightlifting

whether we need to appeal or not, based on time and our financial constraints," said the Malaysian Weightlifting

USA Weightlifting are to hold a virtual training camp this week in a bid to get around the coronavirus

Mike Gattone, and technical director, Pyrros Dimas.With the postponement of the Youth Pan American Weightlifting

the only confirmed youth and junior international competitions for 2020 are the Junior Pan American Weightlifting

Championships and the Youth World Weightlifting Championships.The Junior Pan American Championships

are scheduled for September 11 to 18 in Manizales in Colombia, with the International Weightlifting Federation

 USA Weightlifting are also holding online competitions to keep their athletes and fans active during