Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has declared open the 11th Central American Games in Managua after a ceremony held at the new Dennis Martinez National Stadium.

, handball, hockey, judo, rowing, rugby sevens, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volley, weightlifting

For four years Chile’s weightlifting federation have known they had somebody very, very special in their

“He is the Lionel Messi of weightlifting,” said Mendez’ coach Giorgi Panchev, the Bulgarian who helped

Colombia to become a world power in the sport and is now technical director of the Chilean Weightlifting

Chilean weightlifting.Chile's Arley Mendez celebrates after obtaining the gold medal in the men's 85kg weightlifting

whose lifter was second.The rules of the Bolivarian Games are different to those of the International Weightlifting

International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Adam Pengilly has given his backing to weightlifting retaining

The Briton was speaking to insidethegames during a visit here to the 2017 International Weightlifting

Executive Board meeting that will determine the sport's Olympic future after Tokyo 2020.The threat of weightlifting

held a number of meetings this year and, following an extensive analysis of the anti-doping efforts in weightlifting

Board here.The Commission determined that while significant improvements have been made in the IWF weightlifting

head Ursula Garza Papandrea.Adamfi and USA Weightlifting chief executive Phil Andrews were also in close

world records on his way to claiming a hat-trick of gold medals on day six of the 2017 International Weightlifting

By Daniel Etchells at the Anaheim Convention Center

There are many within the weightlifting world who believe it will be a matter of life and death when

A black pall was cast over weightlifting less than six months ago when Thomas Bach, the IOC President

and, in weightlifting parlance, president of the jury in this contest, said it had “a massive doping

deemed incurable this week, if Bach and his IOC colleagues push the red button rather than the white, weightlifting

Games, just fine.As Ajan said, if weightlifting is not on the programme the Olympic movement will have

“Weightlifting is the Fortius,” he said.

Experienced coach Kyle Pierce has been inducted into USA Weightlifting’s Hall of Fame during the 2017 World Championships here in Anaheim.

Pierce has spent the last 43 years advancing the sport of weightlifting worldwide.As the head of the

department at Louisiana State University in Shreveport (LSUS), he has been instrumental in advancing weightlifting

at the collegiate level in the United States.Since 2000, Pierce has hosted a USA Weightlifting and High-Performance

Center as LSUS, staging numerous weightlifting events and producing many national team athletes.Additionally

I’ve learned so much from him, and not just about weightlifting, but how to be an upright person."

Mahmoud claimed a clean sweep of the men’s 77 kilograms titles on day five of the 2017 International Weightlifting

USA Weightlifting should be enormously proud, as I am, for being represented at this world championships

By Daniel Etchells at the Anaheim Convention Center

Seven countries are due to compete in 27 full sports over 15 days of competition at the 11th edition of the Central American Games scheduled to start tomorrow in Managua.

, handball, hockey, judo, rowing, rugby sevens, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volley, weightlifting

Korea’s Won Jeongsik claimed the men’s 69 kilograms overall title on day four of the 2017 International Weightlifting

3rd Clean and Jerk attempts of 178kg at #17wwc Watch live on ESPN3 pic.twitter.com/efPtPRxTU8— USA Weightlifting

By Daniel Etchells at the Anaheim Convention Center

Spanish weightlifter Lidia Valentín’s long wait to receive her re-allocated Olympic medals following the re-testing of samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 looks set to extend into next year.

both Games.The 32-year-old was officially upped to first place at London 2012 when the International Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation has decided about Lidia; they say that she has won the Olympics

If they’d been banned five years ago, it would be five years with a different image of weightlifting,

Weightlifting needs to be clean because otherwise it could be out of the Olympic Movement and without

the Olympic Movement, weightlifting will be nothing," Iglesias said.Valentín is due to compete here

from the women’s 53 kilograms event to claim a clean sweep of gold medals at the 2017 International Weightlifting

United States Olympic Committee (USOC) chief executive Scott Blackmun believes the International Weightlifting

spectator for the women’s 63 kilograms B group session, sat alongside IWF President Tamás Aján and USA Weightlifting

head Ursula Garza Papandrea.IWF director general Attila Adamfi and USA Weightlifting chief executive

Phil Andrews were also in close proximity and in discussion with Blackmun.The threat of weightlifting

London 2012 Olympic Games.Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, warned weightlifting

Weightlifting is striving to retain its Olympic status ©IWFBlackmun was full of praise for the organisation