hotline established to help Richard McLaren's independent investigation into allegations of corruption in weightlifting

January.Allegations of corruption in finance and anti-doping procedures involving the International Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will allow athletes to switch entries from one competition

2020.The postponement was requested by Nicu Vlad, an IWF board member and president of the Romanian Weightlifting

is happy.Nicu Vlad, pictured above, a former weightlifter himself, is now president of the Romanian Weightlifting

“A World Weightlifting Championships, such as the 2020 IWF JWC… necessarily involves many people from

Laurel Hubbard, the transgender weightlifter who is trying to qualify for Tokyo 2020 at the age of 42, broke a continental record but then bombed out in the Australian Open in Canberra, an Olympic qualifying competition.

Canberra.Hubbard’s 133kg was the fifth best snatch in the women’s super-heavyweights on the International Weightlifting

her past nine clean and jerk attempts in international competition.Hubbard, whose presence in women’s weightlifting

Eileen Cikamatana lifted a total of 250kg while competing in the women's 81kg at Canberra © Australian Weightlifting

Muskett won the women's 76kg with 223kg to improve her chances of qualifying for Tokyo 2020 ©Australian Weightlifting

In less than a fortnight, the Flame for Tokyo 2020 will be kindled in Ancient Olympia, the second time that an Olympic Torch Relay has set out for the Japanese capital.

He had represented British India at the 1936 Berlin Games in weightlifting.

The National Olympic Committee of Kazakhstan (NOC Kazakhstan) has re-elected Saken Mussaibekov as secretary general at the organisation’s General Assembly.

athletics and volleyball federations.Modern Pentathlon Federation of Kazakhstan President Berik Imashev, weightlifting

Colombia face the prospect of being banned from participating at Tokyo 2020 weightlifting competitions

athletes provided a positive test for the anabolic steroid boldenone, according to the International Weightlifting

across the snatch and the clean and jerk disciplines.She also won a silver medal at the World Junior Weightlifting

success has also been achieved by Solis, with the 20-year-old having won bronze in the Pan American Weightlifting

Championships last year in the men’s 81kg event.Solis won an overall silver medal at the World Junior Weightlifting

nation, secured three medals at last year’s Weightlifting World Championships in Thailand.Leydi Solís

Willian Ozuna has been ousted and the Peruvian José Quiñones is the new man in charge of the Pan American Weightlifting

Quiñones, former head of Peru's National Olympic Committee and a member of the International Weightlifting

secretary general, and the United States' Phil Andrews as treasurer.Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting

“First, after an electoral process, the most important thing is to bring together once more the weightlifting

own Executive Board) to the vacant seat”.A similar situation could arise in April when the European Weightlifting

Katherine Nye has capped a remarkable run of weightlifting achievements by the United States by becoming

Nye, a junior and senior world champion last year, took the International Weightlifting Federation’s

#IWF #weightlifting #athletes #sports pic.twitter.com/rUzyGlFo1V— IWF (@iwfnet) February 20, 2020Nye

a boost in recent years.Colombia has won more Olympic medals in weightlifting than in any other sport

from zero and now, in terms of results, we are the number one sport in Colombia," said the Colombian Weightlifting

.She started in gymnastics as a young child, gave up aged 15, tried CrossFit and swiftly moved into weightlifting"Weightlifting

The Asia Rugby Women's Championship, set to take place in Hong Kong, has been rescheduled due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the region.

with one person dying, while Kazakhstan had the Asian Water Polo Championships cancelled and the Asian Weightlifting

accounting, lack of transparency and unconstitutional behaviour by the leadership of the Pan American Weightlifting

’s home nation.They are Jose Quinones of Peru, who sits on the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting

Federation (IWF), Phil Andrews, Chief Executive of USA Weightlifting, and the Argentinian lawyer Gustavo

“Our team stands for a better Pan American Weightlifting Federation, one that is truly equitable for

courses with prestige universities for sports administration, sports law and methodology applied to weightlifting

“Likewise, we will seek to approach Governments and Olympic Committees in order to bring weightlifting

The Asian Weightlifting Championships is being moved from Kazakhstan at less than nine weeks’ notice

Tashkent, the venue for the Asian Youth and Junior Championships which are now taking place.The Asian Weightlifting

final six-month phase of qualifying for Tokyo 2020 ends on April 30.Uzbekistan will now host the Asian Weightlifting

last week as "an experienced host nation" by Ursula Papandrea, acting President of the International Weightlifting

, and the right of veto over decisions that directly impact them, were revealed at an International Weightlifting

the representative body Global Athlete last month.An accompanying statement from Global Athlete said weightlifting

bronze medallists from Canada and the United States and, this week, the president of the Bulgarian Weightlifting

Crass Wood, like Papandrea, started her political involvement in weightlifting as an athletes’ representative

 Tom Goegebuer, President of the Belgian Weightlifting Federation and three times an Olympian, sat

be constructive in the interest of our sport in general.”Tom Goegebuer, now President of the Belgian Weightlifting

The Malawi Olympic Committee (MOC) is to host a training workshop in strategic and operational planning.

National governing bodies for archery, basketball, taekwondo, cycling, judo, handball, table tennis, weightlifting

Super-heavyweight weightlifter Aleksei Lovchev had his best result since serving a four-year doping disqualification to earn a place in Russia’s team for the European Championships in Moscow in April.

Lovchev, who briefly held two world records before his disqualification from the 2015 International Weightlifting

Championships but has had only one athlete suspended since Maxim Agapitov took over as president of the Russian Weightlifting

In June last year, Forbes magazine published its list of the 100 highest earners in sport.

into gender transition for the IOC, and another WADA-funded project which has been a talking point in weightlifting

funded by WADA.He also has a deep knowledge of the history of steroids in sport, in which a single weightlifting

run-through of how steroids found their way into sport.There are plenty of coaches and historians in weightlifting

right, as the Soviets confirmed to the US team physician, Dr John Ziegler, at the 1954 International Weightlifting

as the pivotal point of how this idea of anabolic steroids as performance-enhancing drugs went from weightlifting