USA Weightlifting have created new American record standards for the new bodyweight categories recently

introduced by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

Morocco overcame defending champions Nigeria to secure the boys' football gold medal at the African Youth Games in Algiers.

swimming, sailing, boules, tennis, table tennis, shooting, triathlon, taekwondo, volleyball, wushu and weightlifting

Cricket and paragliding have been added to the programme for the 2019 South Asian Games in Nepal.

ImagesKarate, kho kho, shooting, squash, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting

Nigeria and Morocco will meet in the African Youth Games boys' football final after winning last four encounters in Algiers.

swimming, sailing, boules, tennis, table tennis, shooting, triathlon, taekwondo, volleyball, wushu and weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) have unveiled the official logo for this year's World

to host the World Championships between November 1 and 10.Competition will take place in the city's Weightlifting

event in November.This came after scheduled hosts Lima agreed to hand the event over "to support the weightlifting

Interim International Boxing Association (AIBA) President Gafur Rakhimov has claimed he is "more determined than ever" to continue to devote himself to boxing, despite hints the sport's place could be at risk if he is elected on a permanent basis later this year.

progress made by AIBA, the organisation provided a much more positive outlook on the International Weightlifting

The Marshall Islands dominated the weightlifting competition at the Micronesian Games in Yap, winning

The weightlifting event finished today and with Marshall Islands claiming four silvers on top of their

Owen Lewis has been appointed the new secretary general of the Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) to replace Robert Graham, who was fired in February.

with their best performance coming from Luisa Peters, who finished ninth in the women's 75 kilograms weightlifting

The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have announced 90 athletes will participate in the final stage of their search for potential future Olympians.

each of the participating sports.Bobsleigh, boxing, canoe/kayak, cycling, rowing, rugby, skeleton and weightlifting

Hosts Algeria celebrated a hat-trick of team judo titles as the African Youth Games continued in their capital Algiers.

Games.While Nigeria suffered in the team judo finals, they were left toasting a series of successes in weightlifting

swimming, sailing, boules, tennis, table tennis, shooting, triathlon, taekwondo, volleyball, wushu and weightlifting

The axe remains delicately poised above boxing and weightlifting following the International Olympic

organisations sliding back into complacency.The threat has been like an electric jolt to the International Weightlifting

and recently the IWF announced a partnership with the United States Anti-Doping Agency and USA Weightlifting

In the past two years with have had announcements that there were 24 positive tests in weightlifting

Only then to be sent home himself from Rio 2016.Boxing and weightlifting have provided a headache for

It should not come as a surprise that the crisis-hit sports of biathlon, boxing and weightlifting are

Jamaican swimming ace Alia Atkinson set a record on her way to winning the women’s 100 metres breaststroke event on the first day of medal action at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla in Colombia.

top of the overall medal standings with 10 golds in all.Four of their other victories came in weightlifting

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has hinted boxing's place on the Tokyo 2020 programme could be in doubt if Gafur Rakhimov is elected President of the sport's worldwide governing body later this year.

at risk of losing its place on the Olympic programme ©Getty ImagesBach also urged the International Weightlifting