Tonga National Olympic Committee secretary general Takitoa Taumoepeau confirmed there are Tongan athletes currently quarantined in Wuhan due to the outbreak of coronavirus in the Chinese city. 

Fifty-two Tongan athletes and officials from swimming, table tennis, boxing and weightlifting are currently

performance by the 20-year-old super-heavyweight Ali Davoudi has brightened Iran’s prospects of making the weightlifting

good news for Iran with an encouraging update on the fitness of Sohrab Moradi, one of the nation’s two weightlifting

Tokyo.His career-best effort, which would have been good enough for bronze at last year’s International Weightlifting

the 2004 Olympic Games lifter and former national team coach who is now general secretary of the Iran Weightlifting

Turkey, Russia and Moldova are in the running to replace Antonio Urso as President of the European Weightlifting

Russian Presidential candidate is Maxim Agapitov, a member of the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting

months.The third candidate to replace Urso is Antonio Conflitti, interim President of the Moldovan Weightlifting

dual nationality.Conflitti worked in Italy for 15 years and has lived in Moldova for 11 years.Russian Weightlifting

Federation President Maxim Agapitov is among those running to be European Weightlifting Federation President

©NTVMoldova featured in the recent German TV documentary that has caused so much trouble in weightlifting

International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Juan Antonio Samaranch and Athletes' Commission representative Emma Terho have been appointed to a Disciplinary Commission created to follow-up on an alleged doping confession by a Thai weightlifter.

admission of doping by London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Siripuch Gulnoi, who claimed doping was part of weightlifting

Commission will follow up on an alleged doping confession from Siripuch Gulnoi ©Getty ImagesThe Thai Amateur Weightlifting

since resigned in the wake of the documentary, which led to Tamás Aján stepping aside as International Weightlifting

Ghana Olympic Committee President Ben Nunoo Mensah has called on businesses to invest in the country's athletes as they prepare for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. 

Nunoo Mensah called for businesses to help athletes qualify for the Olympics in sports such as boxing, weightlifting

The National Olympic Committee of the Solomon Islands (NOCSI) Executive Board held a one-day planning session to prepare for the year head.

, including 5,000 metres runners Rosefelo Siosi and Sharon Firisua.Jenly Tegu Wini also competed in weightlifting

Laurel Hubbard kept alive her hopes of competing at Tokyo 2020 when she won the women’s super-heavyweight contest at the Roma World Cup, the first Olympic qualifying event of the year.

from that first phase but since then has won five times, and placed sixth at the 2019 International Weightlifting

doping in Russian sport, is to lead the independent investigation into allegations of corruption in weightlifting

His appointment has been approved decisively by the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting

considering a move to formally suspend him.Yesterday the entire Executive Board of the Thailand Amateur Weightlifting

Tamás Aján has stepped aside as International Weightlifting Federation President for 90 days following

President Ursula Garza Papandrea said, "As I have said in the past, we need someone who is not a friend of weightlifting

Weightlifting is on life support in the international community…"Any investigation and reforms that are

Eileen Cikamatana failed with a world record attempt at the Roma 2020 World Cup but comfortably earned her third straight victory for Australia, the nation she has competed for since last May.

since leaving the junior ranks, 20-year-old Cikamatana - one of the most exciting young talents in weightlifting

as she switched nationality during the qualifying period.She was involved in a dispute with the Fiji Weightlifting

Santavy also did well in finishing second in the men’s 96kg.Craig Walker, President of the Canadian Weightlifting

Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association (TAWA) President Boossaba Yodbangtoey has announced her resignation

responsible did not care about the effects on girls’ health, and that doping was an established feature of weightlifting

medals than any other sport.In light of the documentary, Yodbangtoey, the wife of the International Weightlifting

corruption.Ursula Papandrea, the American who chairs the IWF Women's Commission and is President of USA Weightlifting

Loredana Toma gave Romanian weightlifting a welcome boost when she made a career-best total and set three

the Olympic Games are very close for her now," said Alex Padure, secretary general of the Romanian Weightlifting

retests of stored samples from London 2012.Under the "Tbilisi Decision" taken by the International Weightlifting

Moscow in April.Italy is hoping to qualify five lifters for Tokyo 2020, their largest team in Olympic weightlifting

A number of members of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board may call for

Agapitov's comments were endorsed by Antonio Urso, the Italian President of the European Weightlifting

doubt that external experts will vindicate my commitment of nearly 50 years to develop the sport of weightlifting

- related to the past.He insisted the ARD team ignored recent reforms by the IWF, which had helped weightlifting

University and Tertiary Sport New Zealand (UTSNZ) has revealed the international opportunities available for its members in the upcoming year. 

 They will also send competitors in athletics, karate, taekwondo and weightlifting to the Chinese

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has complained of "bias and a sensationalist style"

programme when the narrator said: "It is likely that he [Aján] will run for President of the International Weightlifting

It is complicated for us to understand where this money is, who uses this money, and why weightlifting

Italy's European Weightlifting Federation President Antonio Urso, right, had complained about to CAS

responsibilities Papandrea, who also chairs the IWF Women’s Commission and is working to promote women’s weightlifting

in parts of the world where it does not have a strong presence, has resigned as chair of USA Weightlifting

Newly-uncovered archive documents have confirmed persistent allegations that drug-use entered into the upper levels of sport in New Zealand sport around the time of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Olympics in Tokyo, and Greg Ryan.One spoke of an "embedded anabolic steroid culture" in the New Zealand weightlifting