Almost 200 athletes are set to represent North Korea at the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou as it ends a three-year isolation from major international sport, it has been announced.

last month in Kazakhstan.A total of 14 North Korean athletes were due to compete at the International Weightlifting

securing 12 golds, 12 silvers and 13 bronzes at Jakarta Palembang 2018.Eight of those golds came in weightlifting

in wrestling, shooting and gymnastics.Ri Song Gum and Rim Un Sim, who both won gold in the women's weightlifting

The Chinese anthem was played for a sixth time at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World

Egypt had its second winner in two days at the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships

A refugee weightlifter said "my heart and soul are broken" after she missed what was due to be the biggest day of her difficult year.

Parisa Jahanfekrian is a member of the Weightlifting Refugee Team (WRT), which entered six athletes for

the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here.

IWF Board member Florian Sperl, head of the refugee team project and President of the German Weightlifting

Board approved a proposal for the WRT to become permanent project under a new, wider policy called Weightlifting

We would encourage people to try weightlifting and help them to do it."

Australia have named a 20-strong athletics team as well as eight judokas for this year's Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

is set to participate in archery, athletics, boxing, beach volleyball, judo, sailing, taekwondo and weightlifting

the top of the women’s 71kg rankings for Paris 2024, winning China’s fifth title at the International Weightlifting

posting the best ever numbers by an Icelandic woman in any weight category.Sturlodottir, who combines weightlifting

Qasim Hasan enjoyed every moment when he won Iraq’s first World Championships gold medal in any sport.

It happened here at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Riyadh when

It was Iraq’s best weightlifting result since the 1960 Olympic Games, where Abdul-Wahid Aziz won a lightweight

"The best result in the history of Iraq weightlifting - it makes me so proud."

Two weightlifters from Georgia have been sent home from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF

Meanwhile the Georgian Weightlifting Federation (GEOWF) has issued a statement about an investigation

Asanidze, lifted.It said there had been 10 positive samples in suspicious circumstances in three sports - weightlifting

International interest in Georgian weightlifting is at a high level because super-heavyweight Lasha Talakhadze

It was a 34th birthday to remember for Forrester Osei today, if not in the "party-time" way.

This afternoon Osei wore a suit to deliver a report on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is still waiting to hear whether the sport is back on

Under the athletes’ pillar, the "roadmap" declares the IWF’s intent to seek a bigger presence for weightlifting

medal events.For LA 2028 there are none, because the International Olympic Committee (IOC) removed weightlifting

There were ten medal events during the weightlifting programme at Tokyo 2020, with the IWF hoping 16

planning to test and implement new events on the calendar as part of its roadmap, for example street weightlifting

This could lead to street weightlifting or a mixed team event featuring on the YOG programme from 2030

category" for athletes who are neither male nor female can do so for the first time at the International Weightlifting

Mir Mostafa claimed a famous and totally unexpected victory for Iran at the International Weightlifting

Rahmat Erwin has done it again - a gold medal and a world record from the B Group at the International Weightlifting

 With the Asian Games weightlifting starting in Hangzhou in China on September 30, where he will

Two women weightlifters will become the first athletes in any Olympic sport to compete for Israel in Saudi Arabia tomorrow.

Championships last Sunday (September 3), "it was a huge thing for us," said Oren Shai, President of the Israel Weightlifting

The Israeli Weightlifting Federation chief executive Pavel Kolosovski said the host nation had been very

make history during the competition," he said.IWF President Mohammed Jalood said, "This shows that the weightlifting

The same view was expressed by the Saudi Arabia Weightlifting Federation chief Mohamed Alharbi, who said

both men won medals at the Masters World Championships in Poland, was banned for life and the Iran Weightlifting

court decision to overturn a ruling by the Ethics and Disciplinary Commission of the International Weightlifting

The President of the Russian Weightlifting Federation was reprimanded by the Commission in December 2021

and Adamfi dates back to the period after the publication of the McLaren Report into corruption in weightlifting

the British IWF Board member Matthew Curtain and Adamfi in an open letter, published on the European Weightlifting

amounted to an abuse of office.Agapitov had also posted a video on YouTube, titled Say No Doping, Save Weightlifting