The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced its plans for the Independent Observer (IO) and Athlete Outreach (AO) programmes for the 2019 European Games here.

Bureau of Latvia, Justin Lessard from the International Cycling Union, Lilla Sagi of the International Weightlifting

As the European Games flame finally approaches the city of Minsk, the Torch Relay cavalcade made one last stop en-route to pay tribute to those who liberated Belarus from Nazi occupation 75-years ago.

2010 was the first for Belarus as an independent nation in the Winter Olympics.Moscow 1980 heavyweight weightlifting

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has recommended that the director general and President of the Romanian National Anti-Doping Agency (ANAD) are both dismissed from their posts.

Sîncrăian, stripped of his Olympic men's 85 kilograms bronze medal from Rio 2016 after the International Weightlifting

A 24-year-old Nigerian weightlifter who won her second African Championship only six weeks ago faces an eight-year ban from the sport after testing positive for anabolic steroids for the second time.

her sample showed traces of metenolone.Otunla’s violation is the first announced by the International Weightlifting

Chinese women won the two heaviest weight categories by a combined total of 86kg on the final day of the British International Open, an Olympic qualifying competition running concurrently with the Birds Eye British Championships here tonight.

in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List with a British Empire Medal, awarded for “voluntary services to weightlifting

Anybody who takes a serious interest in weightlifting will be checking the Olympic ranking lists when

First up was the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Junior World Championships in Fiji which

bronze" event compared to the "gold" status of the IWF Juniors - are added.Much to the delight of USA Weightlifting

who had seen first-hand the flaws in the old system in his previous role as competition manager for weightlifting

competition manager Matthew Curtain, second left, with, left to right, fellow weightlifting managers

Weightlifting is an individual sport, so this made no sense and cost the Organising Committee a lot of

Championship football club Leeds United, has been appointed independent chairman of the Board at British Weightlifting

England, Kinnear has also worked at Arsenal, Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble.In a statement, British Weightlifting

Olympic and Paralympic sport to the organisation".Kinnear claimed he could see "real potential" for weightlifting

in Britain and said he was looking forward to getting started.New British Weightlifting chairman Angus

British Weightlifting chief executive Ashley Metcalfe claimed it was a "huge coup" for the governing

It is a really exciting time to be involved with British Weightlifting – on the back of recent European

Ilya Ilyin took another small step towards the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the unlikely setting of Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England when he suffered another defeat but made his best total since his suspension for doping at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympics.

Olympic podium again but is working hard towards his 2019 aim of winning a medal at the International Weightlifting

he heard, he went straight into action early last year at a training camp set up by the Kazakhstan Weightlifting

“In weightlifting at the moment it is time for a change.

defeat by Armenian Varazdat Lalayan in the super-heavyweights on the final day of the International Weightlifting

Less than a year ago the future looked bleak for British weightlifting - so it is something of a surprise

2020.But at least their prospects look better now than they did in early 2017, when all funding for weightlifting

badminton, fencing and table tennis.Less than a year ago Ashley Metcalfe, chief executive of British Weightlifting

Sonny Webster for a complicated and marginal doping violation.The only Britons at the International Weightlifting

doctor because there was no money to send a team.Ashley Metcalfe is the chief executive of British Weightlifting

Whatever the future holds, this weekend in Coventry - the first major standalone weightlifting competition

A group of 42 athletes, including Olympians and Commonwealth Games participants, have been announced in the Australia team for next month's Pacific Games in Samoa. 

 Representatives in athletics, beach volleyball, rugby sevens, sailing and weightlifting have been

 With world rankings key to Tokyo 2020 qualification, those competing athletics, taekwondo and weightlifting

Emmanuel Fakiye in the triple jump.A group of eight women and seven men make up Australia’s 15-strong weightlifting

It is one of six events where athletes can earn ROBI points [the official International Weightlifting

the 2015 edition in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.The team of 43 athletes from sailing, taekwondo, weightlifting

Akbar Djuraev did not have to be at his best to win the 109 kilograms at the International Weightlifting

Chkheidze overcame his recent struggles in the clean and jerk to win the men’s 102kg at the International Weightlifting

Kate Nye continued her spectacular progress in weightlifting by becoming the United States’ first female

Nye, who won the 71kg at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Junior World Championships,

with the same coach, Josh Galloway, and has also spent many hours training alone.In an interview for Weightlifting

House last February she said: “I love weightlifting and always look forward to training because it’s

Evgeniia Gusena (212), with Turkey’s Berfin Altun (206) third.Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting

in Suva when Don Opeloge made his final lift for a sensational "home" victory in the International Weightlifting

medal contenders Opeloge won gold not just for Samoa, but for Oceania.Opeloge, 20, is from a famous weightlifting

with a silver medal for Mohammad Hosseini in the 89kg and bronze for Hossein Soltani in the 81kg ©Iran Weightlifting