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Anti-doping related issues and modification of bodyweight categories expected to be high on agenda at key IWF Executive Board meeting

  • Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board is set to meet here over the coming

how it will address the massive doping problem the sport is facing.This followed 24 positive tests in weightlifting

the implementation of recommendations made by the independent Clean Sport Commission that examined weightlifting

likely to be on the agenda is a report on the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) case involving the Weightlifting

Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.Kazakhstan, the nation with the worst doping record in weightlifting


Olympic silver medallists from The Philippines honoured at awards in Manila

  • OCA

Olympic silver medallists from The Philippines, Mansueto Velasco and Hidilyn Diaz, have been honoured at a ceremony in Manila.

Games in Atlanta.Diaz, a two-time World Championships medallist, finished second in the under-53kg weightlifting

she was now targeting repeating her podium result at Tokyo 2020.Hidilyn Diaz won a silver medal in weightlifting


Oceania countries express support for weightlifting's new Olympic qualifying system

  • Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) claims to have received assurance from countries in

applies to the Tokyo 2020 Games, was the focus of one of the three education seminars held by the Oceania Weightlifting

implementation details.The show of support comes after Kazakhstan, the nation with the worst doping record in weightlifting


Mediterranean Weightlifting Confederation elects new Executive Board

  • Weightlifting

The Mediterranean Weightlifting Confederation (MWC) has elected a new Executive Board with Egypt's Mahmoud

Honorary President.Mahmoud Mahgoub, second from left, has been elected President of the Mediterranean Weightlifting

Confederation ©IWFMahgoub is also President of the Egyptian Weightlifting Federation and a member of

the International Weightlifting Federation Executive Board, which is due to hold a meeting here in Uzbekistan's


Nick Butler: Why the Olympic Movement is trapped in a cycle it cannot seem to break

  • Inside the Blogs

We have all been understandably distracted by what is already shaping up to one of the most entertaining FIFA World Cups on record, but there have also been some fairly interesting revelations over the last week about how the Olympic Movement has - or has not - changed.

appearing at Tokyo 2020 have already been improved in principle for Paris 2024, but both boxing and weightlifting

exactly covered themselves in glory in the last week.Concerns have been raised over the International Weightlifting


Ceremony held to celebrate Georgian Olympic success

  • EOC

A generation of Georgian Olympians have been celebrated by the country's National Olympic Committee in a ceremony at the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi.

under their own flag at Atlanta 1996.Wrestling and judo have produced three gold medals each, with weightlifting



Russian weightlifting boss claims current IWF anti-doping rules encourage cover-ups and punish clean

  • Weightlifting

Russian Weightlifting Federation President Maxim Agapitov has criticised international rules which sanction

Agapitov has distributed a series of proposed changes to the International Weightlifting Federation's

plans to also distribute them to all member federations in a bid to gather wider support.It comes as weightlifting

 "All this led to the current situation where the sport of weightlifting is widely known as the



Philip Barker: A rewarding experience by the shores of the Mediterranean

  • Inside the Blogs

As the 2018 Mediterranean Games come to a close this weekend, thoughts are already turning to the next edition, to be held in the Algerian city of Oran in three years time.

In the weightlifting, Olympic champion Lidia Valentin seized the opportunity of not one but two golds




Clerical errors on anti-doping information excludes Fiji and New Zealand weightlifters from Oceania Championships

  • Weightlifting

Fiji's entire delegation and eight athletes from New Zealand will be absent from the Oceania Weightlifting

Weightlifting Fiji and New Zealand Weightlifting have each admitted to clerical errors after their Anti-Doping

Management System (ADAMS) reports for their athletes were not sent in time.Under the International Weightlifting

Federation's (IWF) updated rules, the forms had to be submitted by April 1.Weightlifting is continuing

for Paris 2024 as a result.The issue has dominated the build-up to the Championships in the prominent weightlifting

for us to basically get down to the fine print and make sure we did all the work in a timely manner," Weightlifting