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Peru's José Quiñonez has been re-elected as President of the South American Weightlifting Federation

Quiñonez, also a vice president of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), will now serve another

presidents.Doris Marrero from Venezuela and Claudelina Montiel from Paraguay will both take roles.South America's weightlifting

nbsp;A key priority for the CSLP in 2019 will be the Pan American Games in Peru's capital Lima, where weightlifting

Nominations are open for USA Weightlifting's 2018 awards, which recognise strong individual contributions to the sport.

lifetime achievement awards.They are the Mabel Rader Award for outstanding contribution to women's weightlifting

, the Gordon Andrews Award for outstanding contribution to men's weightlifting and the Larry Barnholth

Award for coaching excellence.USA Weightlifting members have until January 15 to nominate their preferred

winners.Last year the Mabel Rader Award for outstanding contribution to women's weightlifting was won

senior athletes, plus the Gayle Hatch Coaching Award for both the male and female coach of the year.USA Weightlifting

Russian athletes disqualified from the Olympic Games have failed to return any of their medals in 2018, the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) have admitted.

We received a letter from the ROC recently, it is not the first," Alexander Kishkin, Russian Weightlifting

Teenage weightlifter Dayana Dimitrova has reportedly been banned from the sport for life after a second doping offence.

and jerk gold medals in the junior under-48 kilograms category at the European Junior and Under-23 Weightlifting

controlling the medical rehabilitation of competitors and of taking responsibility," the Bulgarian Weightlifting

 Bulgarian weightlifting has often been broiled in doping controversy, with the country's athletes

questionnaire report on corrective actions.The IOC Executive Board noted "progress" made by the International Weightlifting

The United States wants countries with a clean doping record to be given more of a say in weightlifting’s future and will submit a radical proposal for change in voting rights at a meeting in Hungary starting today.

This has been a momentous year for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), which has overhauled

other changes have been praised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which has effectively put weightlifting

representation on the Executive Board, and term limits for office holders.Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting

reward nations who hosted the IWF World Championships or Olympic Games - would be good news for weightlifting

“We can be proud of what the IWF achieved, together with the whole weightlifting family, in 2018.

Some of the logic is questionable, but the International Olympic Committee have made the right call when cooling their flirtation with esports.

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The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has signed an "anti-doping service agreement" with the International Testing Agency (ITA) at their World Aquatics Convention in Hangzhou in China.

bodies to sign up to the ITA recently include the International Gymnastics Federation and International Weightlifting

USA Powerlifting has been effectively been told that 171 of its doping suspensions are invalid and has been ordered to restructure its anti-doping programme by the sport’s global governing body, the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF).

anti-doping policy, while failing to undertake enough tests themselves.One American pointed out that weightlifting

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Canadian weightlifter Christine Girard has received Olympic gold and bronze medals from London 2012 and Beijing 2008 respectively during a special ceremony at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

The 33-year-old becomes the first Olympic weightlifting champion for her nation, male or female, and

Just like that, I became a two-time Olympic medallist, the first in Canadian weightlifting."

Perhaps most importantly, I missed out on the opportunity to showcase weightlifting to Canadians and

The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has announced the finalists for their Best of November awards, recognising the "outstanding achievements" of Team USA athletes over the past month.

and women’s awards respectively.For the men’s award they include Harrison Maurus, who set a junior weightlifting

Very strong progress has been made by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) but the sport's

The inclusion of weightlifting at Paris 2024 was conditional to the satisfaction of the IOC Executive

Recent years have seen a very big shift in the way weightlifting views doping, and it is pleasing to

“What we have created to ensure clean weightlifting goes far beyond a simple list of measures, projects

 "Instead, we have worked to ensure a global culture for weightlifting that is based on self-respect

International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials are assessing how they can organise a boxing tournament at Tokyo 2020 without the Gafur Rakhimov-led International Boxing Association (AIBA) as the Executive Board prepares to decide the future of the sport at the Games.

with the December 31 deadline imposed by the anti-doping body looming.An update on the International Weightlifting

Eight winners were announced on the final episode of the United States Olympic Committee's (USOC) television show which aims to find future Olympic stars.

medical support in their bid to compete at an Olympic Games.Kayla Caldwell was named the winner for weightlifting