In a week when three Americans are making an historic sporting visit to Iran, plans have been announced for a groundbreaking women's international match between Iran and the United States later this year. 

likelihood is that the match will take place in Turkmenistan, host nation for this year's International Weightlifting

Iran, in the next few days by Ursula Garza Papandrea and Ali Moradi, Presidents respectively of USA Weightlifting

Our joint goal is to see Iran competing in women's weightlifting at the World Championships," said Phil

Andrews added: "We at USA Weightlifting are very proud of Ursula and Sally.

 "I am sure given the amazing success of Iranian men's weightlifting, it won't be long before we

Former rugby union player Tuala Mathew Vaea has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Samoa Association of Sport and National Olympic Committee (SASNOC).

  Samoa won silver in weightlifting at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, their only Olympic medal

The Oceania Weightlifting Federation held an elite training camp in New Caledonia in a bid to improve

The purpose of the training camp, which received financial assistance from the International Weightlifting

Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) has announced it does not support a campaign by the country's governing weightlifting

Michael Keelan, chief executive of the Australian Weightlifting Federation, has written a letter disputing

athlete to compete at GC2018 is subject to regulations as determined by the CGF and the International Weightlifting

to the event.She won a silver medal in the women's over 90 kilograms category at the International Weightlifting

pursuing their sporting ambitions and competing in IWF sanctioned events, including the Commonwealth Games weightlifting

A new row has broken out after Australia renewed calls for New Zealand's transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to be banned from taking part in this year's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast.

Hubbard, 39, was granted permission to compete at Gold Coast 2018 in the women's weightlifting event.

     But Michael Keelan, chief executive of the Australian Weightlifting Federation, has

 "It is our strong view that weightlifting has always been a gender-specific sport, male and female

our respectful view, the current criteria and its application has the potential to devalue women's weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation should clarify why the current criteria are considered appropriate

United World Wrestling has signed a four-year strategic partnership with Nike Wrestling and its global distributor Athlete Performance Solutions (APS).

APS also distributes for Nike in sports such as boxing, weightlifting, fencing, volleyball, rowing and

Fiji have named a 96-athlete team for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, with rugby sevens and weightlifting

2010.Apolonia Vaivai was their sole medallist in Glasgow, securing a bronze in the women's 75-kilogram weightlifting

event.She returns the Games as part of a seven-member weightlifting team.A large part of the delegation

Sport for Para-athletes has existed for more than 100 years but it was not until after World War Two that it became widely introduced to help veterans injured in the conflict recover.

They were athletics, lawn bowls, swimming, table tennis and weightlifting.

Jakarta and Palembang 2018 organisers have confirmed that this week's test events have shown issues they will seek to fix prior to this year's Asian Games. 

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

An anti-doping seminar was held by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) in Azerbaijan as

the seminars are a way of working with such offenders.Tamás Aján is leading the efforts to clean up weightlifting

weightlifters Ruslan Albegov and Oleg Chen have had provisional suspensions lifted by the International Weightlifting

as well as a Summer Universiade winner in Kazan in 2013.Albegov had been the only male Russian weightlifting

The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) today hosted their annual National Sport Day in various cities across the country.

and help spread the Olympic spirit.Sports on today's taster programme included gymnastics, fencing, weightlifting

including members of the 2018 Asian Championship gold-medal winning handball team, senior world weightlifting

Christchurch because she wanted to watch Precious McKenzie win his third consecutive gold medal in weightlifting

Later in 1974 I came back to compete in a Commonwealth v New Zealand weightlifting competition at the

 The event even included a weightlifting demonstration, a sport that he still loves at the age of

Athletes from host nation Indonesia won several medals on the second day of testing for the Jakarta Palembang 2018 Asian Games.

Games, due to take place from August 18 to September 2Indonesia also secured several medals in the weightlifting

New drug tests will be developed soon to help detect use of erythropoietin (EPO) over a far longer period, International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical and scientific director Richard Budgett hopes, he revealed here today. 

months rather than days.This led to dozens of medal winners in several sports, including athletics and weightlifting