Wrestling, boxing and weightlifting had the highest percentage of Adverse Analytical Findings (AAF) of

Wrestling at 2.7, boxing at 2.0 and weightlifting at 1.9 were the top three of the Rio 2016 Olympic sports.According

than they did in 2015.Aquatics was the next on the list with 15,174 samples collected, followed by weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation have highlighted the number of tests as proof of their commitment

know that there is a lot more work to do, but we are moving in the right direction," an International Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be radically different from the competition at Rio 2016

if, as expected, a range of changes being discussed by experts are adopted by the International Weightlifting

after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reduced athlete quotas in a number of sports, cutting weightlifting

unhappy with the 94 kilograms class that has featured so prominently in doping scandals.Ten of the 49 weightlifting

It makes sense to use statistics as much as possible before deciding on the new categories, because weightlifting

Manager, Matthew Curtain, a former weightlifting official who is director of sport at the Commonwealth

Games Federation, and Tom Goegebuer, an athlete representative, triple Olympian and the Belgian Weightlifting

Paula Radcliffe has criticised the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for not following up on initial allegations of systematic doping in China and claimed the statute of limitations should be scrapped completely to prevent countries cheating.

along with badminton, basketball, diving, football, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, volleyball and weightlifting

An investigative process has been launched by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in response to the allegations that a systematic doping programme existed in China across all Olympic sports in the 1980s and 1990s.

football, volleyball, basketball, table tennis, badminton, athletics, swimming, diving, gymnastics and weightlifting

A former doctor for the Chinese Olympic team has claimed that all medals won by athletes from the country in 1980s and 1990s were achieved through a systematic doping programme existing across all sports.

football, volleyball, basketball, table tennis, badminton, athletics, swimming, diving, gymnastics and weightlifting

 China is among nine countries currently suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation

junior record-breaker of the week on the final day of competition at the European Junior and Under-23 Weightlifting

 These bans were imposed by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for multiple doping

Aliaksei Mzhachyk, at 396kg.Emily Campbell, a former track and field athlete who "fell in love" with weightlifting

China, Turkey and other nations who have been banned from weightlifting for a year are hopeful that

progress against the doping culture that has blighted the sport, was announced by the International Weightlifting

Championships in Anaheim in November and December.Tamás Aján, President of the IWF, said: "The steps taken in weightlifting

of positives in the retests.In a lengthy statement on the IWF's bans, Aján said: "The steps taken in weightlifting

mainly consist of outside-the-sport anti-doping experts".Tamás Aján, President of the International Weightlifting

submitting a "satisfactory" report on its anti-doping strategy by December.If the IOC rejects the report, weightlifting

Armenia won two gold medals and also played a part in helping Austrian teenager Sarah Fischer to an impressive silver on the penultimate day of the European Junior and Under-23 Championships here tonight.

 Maxim Agapitov, President of the Russian Weightlifting Federation, says that athletes will face

"We have done so much to make Russian weightlifting clean now, as much as we possibly can," he says,

At the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) Congress here earlier this month, Norway was held up as

I believe the society of weightlifting in Russia will take this responsibility.

There are no more double standards in Russian weightlifting."

is sport's worst culprit ©RWFAgapitov pointed out that doping was not just a weightlifting problem,

The Ukrainian favourite Hanna Panova thought she had won the gold medal at the European Junior and Under-23 Championships, only to be beaten into second place by Russia’s Alezksandra Kozlova when a refereeing decision overruled her final attempt because of a press-out.

ahead of Tiler in the European senior rankings and, if Tiler goes to Anaheim for the International Weightlifting

for the gold medal in the 69kg category at the European Junior and Under-23 Championships ©Ukrainian Weightlifting

FederationBritish Weightlifting said in a statement that it was "shocked and devastated" by the news

How else am I going to put my point across," said Tiler, who felt let down by British Weightlifting,

This is so hard - I gave up my childhood for weightlifting," she said in a television interview, before

The last time most of the old Soviet Bloc nations missed a major international weightlifting championships

politically inspired boycott, and Vlad and Petre Becheru became Romania's first and, to date, only Olympic weightlifting

Soviet Bloc countries will be absent from the biggest event on this year's calendar, the International Weightlifting

of the most respected figures in world weightlifting.Nicu Vlad is the most famous name in Romanian weightlifting

the senior European Championships in Split last April.Alex Padure, secretary general of the Romanian Weightlifting

Rebekah Koha is on course for a World Championship medal after retaining her 58 kilograms European junior title in style.

lift.Koha responded two months later with a career-best performance to win gold in the International Weightlifting

medal by 2kg, and they occasionally cross paths at airports.Jelena Ostapenko is friends with Latvian weightlifting

title and secured yet another gold medal for the Sicilian town that can justifiably claim to be the weightlifting

is the podium at the World Championships in Anaheim, California in six weeks, is from an illustrious weightlifting

Everybody in the town follows weightlifting - there is nowhere else in the world like it," said Antonio

Urso, President of the European Weightlifting Federation and another who originates from Caltanisetta.Scarantino

the family, and I lead Mirco 3-2 on Olympic appearances," said Giovanni, who coaches for the Italian Weightlifting

 Giovanni's youngest son Claudio, 11, has just taken up weightlifting and "could be even stronger

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will ensure there is a record level of testing at their

years.This in turn led to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, Thomas Bach, saying weightlifting

Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting, thanked the IWF for their "further commitment to

I was intrigued by two anti-doping related stories last week.

 This is very different from some summer sports, like weightlifting, where athletes often have often

I am told that that the International Weightlifting Federation will introduce more compulsory qualification

athletes do generally compete over a far more structured World Cup season than in summer sports,like weightlifting