Tamás Aján, the President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), has accused Thailand of

Thailand, which has the worst recent doping record in weightlifting, was putting the future of the entire

Intarat Yodbangtoey, who, as first vice-president of the IWF, holds the second-highest elected post in weightlifting

, after Aján.Yodbangtoey is also Honorary President of the Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association (TAWA

We all know that the sport of weightlifting has been in danger since 2017 and the status of the sport

of the IOC Executive Board in its March 2019 decision to lift the provisional status of inclusion of weightlifting

A teenage Thai weightlifter has forfeited her gold medal from the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires last year.

the girls' events.But her name no longer appears on the official website results of the International Weightlifting

since 2011, not one featured a lifter older than 24.The news comes at a time when the Thai Amateur Weightlifting

USA Weightlifting has announced it will be hosting a star-studded gala to celebrate and raise money for

governing body's Tokyo Strong initiative, a programme designed to create an environment to set up American weightlifting

make sure our athletes have all of the tools necessary to make their Olympic dreams come true," a USA Weightlifting

statement reads.The Golden Gala, emceed by what USA Weightlifting states will be a "very special guest

champion Pyrros Dimas of Greece will share his experience, and his observations on his time with USA Weightlifting

opportunity to bid on exclusive and carefully-curated items in a silent auction and raffle, benefiting USA Weightlifting

Weightlifters from the United States, Canada and Britain - including a champion and a bronze medallist - have strongly criticised the doping culture within the sport, and especially the "massively frustrating" level of support given to known cheats by lifters and fans around the world.

 "Ilya Ilyin can probably set up weightlifting clinics for the rest of his life and make a shitload

dopers was "massively frustrating".Evans directly blamed dopers for the loss of UK Sport funding for weightlifting

Since 2013 men’s weightlifting in the UK has been pretty much dead and the main reason is all those dopers

sanctions panel that decides on punishments for nations with multiple doping offences.The Canadian Weightlifting

Weightlifting needs continued resolve against doping, not more uncertainty," it said.Global Athlete,

In July this year two freestyle swimming medallists at the World Aquatics Championships refused to stand on the podium alongside the multiple champion Sun Yang, of China, because they regard him as a cheat.

If only the same were true in weightlifting, says the American Olympic medallist Cheryl Haworth."

It’s an aspect of weightlifting that drives me mad and I think people have grown so used to it [doping

Weightlifting is so much easier if you’re doping…it’s less challenging for them [dopers] so I always

Ilya Ilyin can probably set up weightlifting clinics for the rest of his life and make a shitload of

Weightlifting needs continued resolve against doping, not more uncertainty."

A "conflict of power" between the elected president of Albania's National Olympic Committee and the organisation's most senior paid administrator has led to a damaging and "baseless" series of allegations of financial crime and an attempted institutional coup.

NOC".Bello is, however, working as usual and was involved in development programmes for canoeing and weightlifting

The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) has hosted a Sports Training and Outreach Programme (STOP) workshop in Suva.

backgrounds like athletics, basketball, billiards and snooker, chess, football, netball, swimming, taekwondo, weightlifting

One of the four gold medals that the legendary Jesse Owens won during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin is up for auction.

., an Olympic weightlifter who befriended Owens and received it from him.Terpak, the world weightlifting

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamás Aján has expressed the pride at seeing North

and South Korean athletes competing together at the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships

 They followed in the footsteps of senior athletes, as weightlifting already brought together Korean

With 193 member nations, we at the International Weightlifting Federation know very well that our sport

But nowhere are we more proud to see weightlifting bringing people together than on the Korean peninsula

Son also revealed the KWF is planning to organise next March's East Asian Weightlifting Championships

 At London 2012 and Rio 2016, weightlifting accounted for four of the country's six gold medals.

The quality of the Lima Grand Prix, and the possibility of a "flat" period in weightlifting after the

level of a World Championships" in the view of Attila Adamfi, director general of the International Weightlifting

Weightlifting had never been on television here before," said Renzo Manyari, President of the Peruvian

Weightlifting Federation, who was proud of the compliments heaped on the Grand Prix by Tamás Aján, President

for Manyari, who wants to spread the word and attract youngsters into weightlifting.He wants to get weightlifting

 "The Games is not about having everybody there, it's about making sure weightlifting is there."

USA Weightlifting chief executive Phil Andrews says he agrees entirely with International Weightlifting

with Intarat Yodbangtoey, first vice-president of the IWF and Honorary President of the Thai Amateur Weightlifting

These are major weightlifting nations that ought to be on the world and Olympic platform, and whom can

learn from the examples seen in Russian weightlifting, Kazakh weightlifting and others to learn how

It has been a long wait for Eileen Cikamatana, but at last she is back on the international weightlifting

stage - and what a return she made on the final day of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF

Gold Coast, Cikamatana was competing for Fiji and on course to become her homeland's first Olympic weightlifting

to move to the Fijian capital, Suva.The team refused, went on strike, and a bitter divide in Fijian weightlifting

approaches from European countries, stuck with Coffa - whose brother Sam is chair of the Australian Weightlifting

I have been in weightlifting for almost 65 years and I have never witnessed anything like it,” he said

given an award by the Grand Prix organisers in recognition not just of his 50-plus years service to weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) should scrap the body that dishes out punishment to

he is fighting against individuals in an attempt to retain his control of the sport,” said Russian Weightlifting

 In total, 76 quota places have been forfeited.Russian Weightlifting Federation President Maxim

Federation, and first vice-president of the Asian Weightlifting Federation, in which role he played

I am working only to make weightlifting clean, in my role as general secretary."Our past shames me.

 "It was a dark period for weightlifting."

Colombia won three gold medals on the opening day of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)

another example of the nation’s ever-rising status in the sport.Colombia has won more Olympic medals in weightlifting

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

Colombia has won more Olympic medals in weightlifting than in any other sport ©Getty ImagesThe pathway

foundations for the future by setting up a programme of coaching the coaches, and unlike other sports weightlifting

A new sporting event - the World Power Games - has been confirmed here at the International Federation of Fitness and Bodybuilding (IFBB) World Congress. 

Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF), last month.He did so on behalf of the International Weightlifting