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Colombia, Nigeria and South Korea celebrate after weird and wonderful contest at IWF World Championships

  • Weightlifting

The women’s 64 kilograms at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships will

Two Colombians who are not just from the same city but the same weightlifting club went head-to-head

and ended with only a snatch silver.Rodriguez and Llamosa train together in Palmira, a stronghold of weightlifting

Championships after nine medal events.She was proud of her victory, which was "the result of working so hard in weightlifting


Dropped barbell goes viral - and helps Dutch weightlifter to IWF World Championships

  • Weightlifting

When Marlous Schuilwerve dropped the barbell on her neck in training last month she could have died, as a bodybuilder had done a month before in Bali in Indonesia.

helped Schuilwerve to agree new sponsorship deals that paid for her to compete at the International Weightlifting

Any form of income makes a big difference because "there is no money in Dutch weightlifting," said Schuilwerve

competing for the Netherlands at the IWF World Championships ©IWF"For me the inspiration to take up weightlifting

Rogers, the American who is one of the most popular female lifters in the world, switched to weightlifting

He finished sixth in Tokyo.Kuworge, 22, has been involved in a dispute with the Dutch Weightlifting Association


Brian Oliver: Winning by degrees - weightlifting heads to university for a better future

  • Inside the Blogs

When news emerged this weekend of Tatiana Kashirina’s loss of three world titles because of a doping offence, one specific fact drew plenty of comments on social media.

regarded as child abuse, a criminal offence, in some parts of the world is or has been part of the weightlifting

scientific, we must change the culture of some coaches who believe only in doping," the International Weightlifting

It is all change in weightlifting as science replaces doping, officials hope ©IWFA significant first

"This course helps us to clean weightlifting, to go for science not doping."

It will be very good news for weightlifting if this project continues for far more than five years.



Exclusive: Weightlifter Kashirina loses world titles and world record in doping ruling

  • Weightlifting

Tatiana Kashirina’s "biggest ever" lifts by a woman weightlifter have been scrubbed from the record books by a court ruling that disqualifies all her results in a four-year period.

entered from October 2012 to November 2018, made the all-time biggest lifts at the 2014 International Weightlifting

Tatiana Kashirina claims she is proud of what she has achieved in weightlifting ©Getty ImagesKashirina

When the process of amending results is underway there will be problems for the IWF and the European Weightlifting






Easy as ABC for Olympic champion Kuo at IWF World Championships

  • Weightlifting

added a touch of quality to the afternoon C Group of the women's 55 kilograms at the International Weightlifting

225, pictured, and Anyelin Venegas’s 95-124-219 ©Brian OliverThat will be for the Asian Games, where weightlifting


Philip Barker: An Olympic gold medal must be the highest peak for any sport in the Games

  • Inside the Blogs

Earlier this week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board announced there would be a delay to their decision on which of nine bidding sports will be admitted to the programme in five years from now.

gymnastics, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, weightlifting


Chinese Taipei takes gold at IWF World Championships after historic Refugee Team debut

  • Weightlifting

Teenager Chen Guan-Ling of Chinese Taipei won a women’s 55 kilogram contest that will go down in the weightlifting

Chen, 18, made 91-112-203 at the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Riyadh

Group under the acronym not of her native Brazil or the United States, where she now lives, but WRT – Weightlifting



IOC postpones decision on sports programme for Los Angeles 2028 Olympics

  • Los Angeles 2028

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that a decision on the sports programme for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games will be made at a later date.

softball, lacrosse, breaking, karate, kickboxing, squash and motorsport.An update on modern pentathlon and weightlifting