Venues used at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 and Manchester in 2002, and due to be used at Birmingham 2022 are being transformed into temporary hospitals to help fight the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom.

wrestling and netball preliminary matches.The Clyde Auditorium, a venue within the SEC was used for weightlifting

Manchester Evening News.It is due to open on April 12.The G-MEX was used for gymnastics, judo, wrestling and weightlifting

patients two days later.Birmingham NEC is scheduled to host badminton, boxing, table tennis, netball and weightlifting

She was the first woman ever to represent Iran in a weightlifting World Championships, and now Poupak

lift for Iran in the Asian Championships, then the first to represent her nation in the International Weightlifting

and now she is helping to fight the virus on the front line," Ali Moradi, President of the Iranian Weightlifting

Basami worked in hospitals and had seven years' experience as a nurse before she took up weightlifting

During my time as a weightlifter I worked with people in the weightlifting setting, helping them reach

their fitness goals," she told USA Weightlifting."

Two International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) affiliated events - the Pan American Youth Championships

with the postponement of the Games being the reason cited for the move from the Executive Board of the Weightlifting

Federation of Africa.The Pan American Weightlifting Federation (PAWF) held an online Executive Board

Thailand and Malaysia have been officially banned from sending weightlifters to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games because of multiple doping offences, the Independent Member Federations Sanctions Panel has announced.

The Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association (TAWA) and the Malaysian Weightlifting Federation (MFW) have

also been suspended as members of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for three years and

months after the next IWF competition.Thailand has the worst recent doping record of any country in weightlifting

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revised the qualification deadline for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after the Games were postponed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 ©IOCSports which use world rankings to determine their Olympic qualifiers - including badminton, weightlifting

2020 had already been completed in sports including equestrian, hockey and volleyball.Others, such as weightlifting

While weightlifters around the world have been unable to train properly because gyms are closed during the coronavirus crisis, Chinese athletes have been in record-breaking form.

Iakovidis in the men's 96kg are both well placed.Only last week Greece was awarded the 2022 International Weightlifting

International Olympic Committee decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the Executive Board of the Weightlifting

Canada's famous weightlifting coach Ron Greavette has died at the age of 82, the International Weightlifting

Greavette coached the country's weightlifting team at the 1986 and 1990 Commonwealth Games as well as

was team leader at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics, while he also served as the President of the Canadian Weightlifting

Federation between 1989 and 1994.He is a member of British Columbia's weightlifting hall of fame.

 In 1971, he started the Viking Weightlifting Club which has been operating for 49 years, with Guy

USA Weightlifting received 500 masks from the Chinese Weightlifting Association and is donating them

The Chinese Weightlifting Association wrote to USA Weightlifting chief executive Phil Andrews to give

 Chinese company Zhangkong Barbell has also donated 5,000 masks to the International Weightlifting

 Thanks to China Weightlifting, we at @USWeightlifting will be able to pass 500 masks to @uchealth

directly. pic.twitter.com/AVt03GITml— Phil Andrews (@PhilAndrewsUSA) March 29, 2020Like all sports, weightlifting

International Federations (IFs) have been reacting to the news that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will now open on July 23 next year, with the Closing Ceremony due to take place on August 8.

2008, but the coronavirus pandemic caused the postponement of two baseball qualifiers.Similarly, many weightlifting

including continental championships - were postponed because of the pandemic, and the International Weightlifting

work of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, including the delivery of the successful weightlifting

2021 now established, the IWF will calendar its events accordingly", Papandrea added.The International Weightlifting

Some weightlifters have had to put careers on hold, others must delay studies and graduation from university, a few are shelving plans to retire this year - and all of them will have to put their body through another year of pain because of the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

recent improvement has made her a medal contender in Tokyo in the women’s 64 kilograms"But everyone in weightlifting

stress levels will rise to an unbearable level unless their case is supported by the International Weightlifting

that qualifying slots already earned in all sports would be guaranteed despite the postponement.But weightlifting

“In weightlifting you have to modulate what you do, you can’t be 100 per cent all year or your body’s

, knowing we have to train like that for another year, it’s devastating.”Charron, a late starter in weightlifting

Athletes who had qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will keep their places at the rescheduled event after it was postponed until no later than the summer of 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

2020 had already been completed in sports including equestrian, hockey and volleyball.Others, such as weightlifting

his duties as planned next month because his “stand-aside” from the Presidency of the International Weightlifting

President to end June 19 2020.”Ursula Papandrea will remain the Acting President of the International Weightlifting

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) must do all it can to help weightlifters who have been “devastated” by the postponement of Tokyo 2020 and now fear their hard-earned places could be taken away from them.

That is the view of Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting (USAW), who has called on the

possible.”The IOC was asked to approve changes to the qualifying system last week, after the International Weightlifting

There is talk within weightlifting of some nations and individual athletes favouring an extension of

good place right now,” said Andrews, who is also director general and treasurer of the Pan American Weightlifting

because of the severe disruption to the third phase.There is a possibility that the IOC will allow weightlifting

A venue used during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London is set to become an emergency hospital to treat patients with coronavirus.

than 19,000 people and infected over 440,000 worldwide.Boxing, fencing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting

Anybody who follows the world of weightlifting closely must be in need of an uplift, judging by recent

she stands on the verge of another remarkable Olympic landmark.The coronavirus pandemic has plagued weightlifting

as much as any other sport, disrupting the Olympic qualifying programme and giving the International Weightlifting

“I started weightlifting at the age of 10,” said Dika, whose younger sisters Thelma, 28, and Konio, 21

“I never told anyone this, but when I was in hospital I sort of gave up on weightlifting.

“Weightlifting is in my blood.