A USA Weightlifting hunt has been launched to find the strongest high school athlete across the United

This is a great opportunity for students across America to show us what they've got," said USA Weightlifting

Samoa's preparations for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games have been handed a lottery cash boost.

Other sports such as weightlifting, where weightlifters train three times, is what we're trying to do

Polish weightlifter Tomasz Zieliński has failed to overturn his four-year doping ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Olympic Committee (IOC) who provisionally suspended him and passed on the case to the International Weightlifting

Ghana have targeted winning five Commonwealth Games medals in Gold Coast next month as the first athletes from the country start to head to Australia.

recent golds came on Australian soil at Melbourne 2006, where Majeti Fetrie triumphed in the men’s 77kg weightlifting

boxing is fast joining the Premier League of drugs-infested sports alongside athletics, cycling and weightlifting

Queensland is set to a enjoy a multi-million dollar windfall thanks to countries and territories setting-up training camps in the region before next month's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, it has been claimed. 

will train on the Sunshine Coast, using facilities such as the Clippers basketball stadium, Nambour Weightlifting

Cook Islands have named their delegation for next month's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, with the athletes set to compete in four sports.

Paniani.Philippa Woonton and Luisa Peters compete the Cook Islands’ team, with the duo set to compete in weightlifting

Two girls aged six and eight won the biggest cheers of the day and upstaged Giorgi Chkheidze, the men’s super-heavyweight winner on the final day of the Fajr Cup who won the top prize of $5,000 (£3,500/€4,000) by the narrowest margin.

Channel 3.They showed off their technique on the platform to promote the recent launch of a female weightlifting

photographers after leaving the stage.Standing with them was Reihaneh Tarighat, vice-president of women’s weightlifting

to help Iranians on to the international women’s stage.Reihaneh Tarighat, vice-president of women’s weightlifting

techniques at the Fajr Cup ©Brian OliverShe thanked Ali Moradi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Weightlifting

Weightlifting has been a men-only sport throughout the 31 years since the first women’s World Championships.The

Both their life stories would make a Hollywood film, Mohammad Nassiri and Precious McKenzie.

injustice one or other or both of them suffered in their remarkable lives before sport - in their case weightlifting

Nassiri, centre, won an Olympic gold medal at Mexico City ©WikipediaAfter channeling his strength into weightlifting

I dedicate everything to him," said Nassiri.He always loved weightlifting but it was a hard life, never

’s welcome every day at the Fajr Cup here in Iran, where he is introduced as the country’s greatest weightlifting

Gold Coast 2018 have revealed that over 20,000 items of sporting equipment will be donated at the conclusion of the Commonwealth Games and have called for expressions of interest for the temporary athletics track.

 Schools, community and grass-roots organisations will be among the beneficiaries.Whitsunday Weightlifting

Iran had senior and junior World Championship medallists on the podium in the 94 kilograms, one of three events they won on day two of the Fajr Cup here.

Abdullah Al-Jarmal, President of the Yemen Weightlifting Federation, who sits on the International Weightlifting

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) have claimed they are making strong progress towards ensuring

The IWF President claimed that women’s weightlifting has grown impressively in recent years, citing a

rise in the number of women taking part at the World Weightlifting Championships.USA Weightlifting President

;This compares to the eight men’s events and seven women’s at Rio 2016.The IWF President joined USA Weightlifting

for female Iranian weightlifters.They claimed the camp was a sign of progress in the country, where weightlifting

has traditionally been a men-only sport.They welcomed an assertion from Islamic Republic of Iran Weightlifting

the country's National Olympic Committee said it would support a future bid to host the International Weightlifting

The launch of a women's weightlifting programme in Ahvaz today, International Women's Day, removed the

We have started very positively and seriously, and we will give strong support to women's weightlifting

We have discovered that there is great potential for women's weightlifting."

If the IWF and our national weightlifting federation agree we will support it.

 Ursula Garza Papandrea, President of USA Weightlifting and head of the IWF Women's Commission,

Religious authorities from Khuzestan province have signed papers that will help Iran's national weightlifting

and an International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) vice-president who is in Iran to help launch the

nation's new women's weightlifting programme, as is technical official Sally Van De water.Both women

Weightlifting is more popular in Iran than in any other country in the world, and when we have women

Weightlifting is becoming more and more popular in Iran after our successes."

After soccer, wrestling was the number two sport in Iran but now maybe it’s weightlifting."

Weightlifters from ten countries will compete in the Fajr Cup in Ahvaz this week, among them elite athletes from the host nation Iran, Iraqis, Syrians, Afghans - and one lone American.

My weightlifting story is very much different to most other weightlifters in the United States."

 "First time I ever went, aged 12, I played basketball and when I finished I tried weightlifting

I'd say 50 students have gone through on weightlifting scholarships," said Johnson, who was the coach

 "It was a kid I'd started in weightlifting at eight-years-old and he didn't live past 18."

 "I said, 'I need to be doing more, I will be doing more,' and that's why Kings of Weightlifting