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came out on top in the women's sprint competition ©Getty ImagesThere was also success for Australia in weightlifting

Home favourite Tia-Clair Toomey claimed the women’s 58 kilograms weightlifting gold medal after producing

84kg in the snatch and 105kg in the clean and jerk.Sanjita Chanu Khumukcham claimed India's second weightlifting

ImagesIn the women's 53kg event, Sanjita Chanu Khumukcham came out on top to claim India's second weightlifting

Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture has claimed that all venues for this year’s Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang will be ready by June.

with competitions in athletics, archery, basketball, boxing, pencak silat, taekwondo, volleyball and weightlifting

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Mirabai claimed India’s first gold medal of Gold Coast 2018 after winning the women's 48 kilograms weightlifting

Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games after a record-breaking performance in the women’s 48 kilograms weightlifting

Gold Coast 2018 was declared open by Prince Charles after a vibrant Opening Ceremony here today featuring a torrential downpour, sandpaper confetti, a giant whale and - for the second Commonwealth Games in a row - a Queen's Baton which did not want to open. 

due to the absence of taekwondo and cross country-skiing from the programme.But Kiribati's defending weightlifting

The men who took weightlifting to unprecedented levels of popularity and success in the remote islands

with a world record," said Paul Coffa, the Australian who is known as "the father figure of Pacific weightlifting

Coffa is aiming for six golds for his team of his lifters from the Oceania Weightlifting Institute, which

India and Canada, whose strong team performed well at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF

We in the Pacific Islands call him the father figure of weightlifting, a true son of the Pacific.

since 1992.Coffa’s brother Sam, who has also spent a lifetime in weightlifting as athlete, coach and

The secretary general of the 2018 Asian Games has assured delegates attending the World Press Briefing that the two co-host cities of Jakarta and Palembang will be ready to host the event.

with competitions in athletics, archery, basketball, boxing, pencak silat, taekwondo, volleyball and weightlifting

champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko is among two athletes to have failed a drugs test, the International Weightlifting

News of Poghosyan's positive comes after allegations of widespread cheating in Armenian weightlifting

Lasha Talakhadze, the record-breaking Georgian super-heavyweight, won his third straight continental title with a dominant performance to end the 2018 European Championships here.

and he retired with a lift to spare.Talakhadze, 24, will be presented with the men’s International Weightlifting

wonderful week - it has gone very well for us with medals and organisation," Nicu Vlad, the Romanian Weightlifting

anthem was Bogdan Mokranowski, the Pole who was behind the microphone for every session at his 1,001st weightlifting

Austrians were saddened by last week’s revelations about the systematic doping that plagued Armenian weightlifting

retrospective positives and a one-year suspension.Details of the cheating, orchestrated by the Armenian Weightlifting

An Australian cricket scandal and discussions about future editions of the Commonwealth Games may have dominated the past week but it is just a few days before sporting action gets underway on the Gold Coast.

Weightlifting looks to be Oceania's likeliest chance of multiple medals at Gold Coast 2018 ©Getty ImagesPapua

New Guinea, Kiribati, Nauru and Samoa were among the nations to clinch medals in weightlifting competition

Lydia Valentin won Spain’s second title at the European Championships on a day when the Spanish Federation reiterated its desire to host the continent’s Junior Championships, which it could lose for political reasons.

Valentin, the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) 2017 female athlete of the year, did not

from all sports, by Bridgestone, a top-level Olympic sponsor.Her many successes have helped to promote weightlifting

Under-23 Championships in October, in La Coruna, is a crucial part of Spain’s strategy to keep taking weightlifting

It is very important to us," said Constantino Iglesias, President of the Spanish Weightlifting Federation.But

it may not happen because the Spanish Government does not recognise Kosovo, a member of the European Weightlifting

Jakarta will play host to the 2018 Asian Games World Press Briefing this week, consisting of a series of presentations and a venue tour.

place from February 8.Athletics, archery, basketball, boxing, pencak silat, taekwondo, volleyball and weightlifting

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President Louise Martin has revealed the organisation have met with the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) following the decision not to include the sport on the programme for Birmingham 2022. 

Para-cycling and mountain biking also feature, along with netball, rugby sevens, squash, table tennis, weightlifting

Patricia Strenius made her mark in weightlifting history at the European Championships today - and she

landmark when she became the first CrossFit athlete to switch sports and win a gold medal in a major weightlifting

I started CrossFit in 2012, and took up weightlifting because of it."

My last international event in CrossFit was in 2015, and since then I have just done weightlifting,"

Annie Thorisdottir, Sara Sigmundsdottir and Katrin Davidsdottir, competed at the 2015 International Weightlifting

but unlike Strenius they finished well down the field.Australia's Tia-Clair Toomey is another star of weightlifting