The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has strongly rejected claims of doping cover-ups and

programme were "very serious and worrying", and the most senior figure in anti-doping in Germany said weightlifting

weightlifting.German National Anti-Doping Agency chairperson Andrea Gotzmann said the revelations could see weightlifting

allegations.A complaint about the "missing” money by Antonio Urso, the Italian President of the European Weightlifting

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

doping violations between them.The IWF announced that it had taken up Gulnoi’s comments with the Thai Weightlifting

Odisha's Minister of Sports and Youth Services Tusharkanti Behera has detailed the Indian state's vision to identify and nurture young talent when its capital Bhubaneswar hosts the inaugural Khelo India University Games (KIUG) this year.

boxing, fencing, football, hockey, judo, kabaddi, rugby, swimming, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting

A German television documentary broadcast today alleges corruption and cover-ups in weightlifting, in

Secret Doping – the Lord of the Lifters, claims millions of dollars paid to the International Weightlifting

been President throughout this century.He also served as a member of the IOC until 2010.For decades weightlifting

Federation, and Antonio Urso, the Italian President of the European Weightlifting Federation.Both men

Antonio Urso, President of the European Weightlifting Federation, claims he wrote to the IOC to warn

He blames the officials who run weightlifting and said: "You're essentially at the mercy of the whole

The number of full International Olympic Committee (IOC) members has dipped temporarily back below the one hundred mark, after seven senior members reached the end of their respective terms.

Kaltschmitt Luján (Guatemala), Sir Austin Sealy (Barbados) and Samih Moudallal, the stentorian-voiced former weightlifting

The winners from season three of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee's (USOPC) "Milk Life presents, The Next Olympic Hopeful" have been announced, with six athletes from as many sports recognised.

reaching the finals in Colorado Springs in July, Gray trained for 12 weeks with the support of USA Weightlifting

Mohamed Yousef Al Mana has been re-elected as President of the Arabic Weightlifting Federation (AWF).

after gaining the backing of the 19 countries in attendance.Al Mana is also President of the Asian Weightlifting

Federation and submitted a challenge to Tamás Aján, the President of the International Weightlifting

in the sport in 2017 before withdrawing from the race.Tamás Aján, the President of the International Weightlifting

The top two coaches in Egypt’s national weightlifting team have been sent to jail during a Government

detained for a further 15 days while the inquiry continues.Mahmoud Magoub, President of the Egyptian Weightlifting

Federation (EWF), who sits on the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF

reports said.Magoub did not reply to messages sent by insidethegames.Egypt is banned from international weightlifting

, a former international taekwondo player and now Egypt’s youngest Member of Parliament, warned the weightlifting

scandal was "a catastrophe that requires urgent action to prevent its recurrence".Weightlifting has

In a year of landmark achievements in women's weightlifting, there was one occurrence that might have

only.It is written by Judy Glenney, who with her fellow American Murray Levin was a pioneer for women's weightlifting

medals, or at least not as soon as 1991 and 2000, respectively.Women are, in most countries, welcome in weightlifting

Deng Wei, who has set 17 world records in 14 months and would be a worthy winner of the International Weightlifting

win the award, male or female.Judy Glenney's book documents women in the predominantly-male world of weightlifting

China and the United States took women’s weightlifting seriously way back in the 1980s, Colombia’s many

Clive Lloyd, the Manchester-based former West Indies cricketer who captained his country as they dominated the game in the 1970s and 80s, has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s New Year Honours List.

player Barry Middleton, who announced his retirement earlier in 2019, and 12-time Commonwealth Games weightlifting

Italian athletes were responsible for comfortably the most confirmed anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) in 2017, according to new statistics made public by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

the highest number of ADRVs committed by athletes with 266, ahead of athletics (242), cycling (218), weightlifting

Iran’s Olympic champion weightlifter Kianoush Rostami made a career high total in one of the best head-to-head contests of 2019 at the Qatar Cup in Doha, the final Olympic qualifying competition of the year – but he still needs a miracle if he is to go for gold again at Tokyo 2020.

realistic chance of qualifying.Rostami had a controversial bomb-out in the snatch at the International Weightlifting

October, only to discover that his entry had not been received in time.For that, he blamed the Iran Weightlifting

If the best athletes are not there, if it is not as good a competition as it could be, it is bad for weightlifting

Indonesian Olympic Committee (KOI) secretary general Teuku Arlan Prakasa has revealed they aiming to send more athletes to next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo than it did to the 2016 edition in Rio de Janeiro.

Vidya Rafika Rahmatan Toyyiba.With chances of qualifying in badminton, sports climbing, swimming and weightlifting

An analytical method known as gas chromatography combustion isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC/C/IRMS) has emerged as one of the most potent weapons in the anti-doping police's armoury, in new testing statistics published by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

steroid profile markers, producing 119 AAFs.More than 40 per cent of these AAFs – 51 in total – came in weightlifting

, a sport whose doping problem is well-known.This was even though weightlifting accounted for less than

critical of weightlifting’s global leadership in recent months, is running for President of the European Weightlifting

Presidency vote is due to be made in Moscow on April 2 next year, before the start of the European Weightlifting

published academic who is a professor of sports science, and Agapitov both competed in international weightlifting

and have been involved in the sport for decades.Urso, who ran for the International Weightlifting Federation

three four-year terms.Antonio Urso, right, has announced he is stepping down as head of the European Weightlifting

details of his Presidential project in the next few weeks.Agapitov became President of the Russian Weightlifting

The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has called for increased funding to boost the country's chances of securing a maiden Olympic gold medal at Tokyo 2020.

drought was ended at Rio 2016 by Hidilyn Diaz.Diaz claimed a silver medal in the women’s 53 kilogram weightlifting