European weightlifting is on "a new pathway" in its efforts to change the culture of doping in parts

operations for coach and athlete education, the main focus of the anti-doping strategy, when a European Weightlifting

has to change, and education is the key," said Antonio Urso, the Italian President of the European Weightlifting

Games.They will begin their suspensions this week once they have received letters from the International Weightlifting

to certificate coaches at six levels.Many parents in all parts of the world erroneously believe that weightlifting

countries have no ethics on the way to train children," Urso said.As President of the Italian Weightlifting

USA Weightlifting has confirmed that an Iranian athlete who was initially denied a visa to attend the

2017 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Anaheim has been successful

Phil Andrews, the chief executive of USA Weightlifting, told insidethegames earlier this month that the

national governing body are not prepared to share, was denied under rule 214b.He also said that the Iran Weightlifting

Ehsan Sharif Ahmadi, a national team masseur, was part of the quartet turned down along with the Iran Weightlifting

into effect on October 18.Anaheim will follow fellow American city Houston in hosting the IWF World Weightlifting

new travel ban came as a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations was set to expire.USA Weightlifting

The 2018 European Weightlifting Championships, which cannot be held as planned in Antalya in Turkey because

 The European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) favours Sweden and its President, Antonio Urso, and

host city of Halmstad on October 25.It was the idea of Kjell-Åke Johansson, President of the Swedish Weightlifting

Halmstad, would help with arrangements, offering the use of facilities at their new state-of-the-art weightlifting

Olympic Games.Russia, which has the biggest potential viewing market, is banned by the International Weightlifting

time to compete next year, was "fake news from Russia" - which angered Maxim Agapitov, the Russian Weightlifting

The Olympic super-heavyweight silver medallist Simon Martirosyan is one of nearly 150 weightlifters who will compete at the European Junior and Under-23 Championships over the next week, before sitting out a year of exile from international competition.

to be decided by the end of the month.A total of nine nations have been banned by the International Weightlifting

Kazakhstan and China are the only non-Europeans.Antonio Urso, the Italian President of the European Weightlifting

Federation (EWF), said: "This is a really sad moment for me and for European weightlifting but it is

 Failure to produce a "satisfactory" report would lead to weightlifting being dropped from the Olympic

Cameroon are set to hold a training camp in Warwick next year as they build-up to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

the final table.Marie Fegue delivered their sole gold medal, triumphing in the women’s 69 kilogram weightlifting

Next year's European Championships may move venue, probably from Turkey to Georgia, but the European Weightlifting

EWF Executive Board tomorrow.Seven European nations are among the nine suspended by the International Weightlifting

Federation (IWF) for doping offences.All nine had three or more of the 49 weightlifting positives

super-heavyweight champion, would have a chance of gold in front of his own supporters.The Georgian Weightlifting

the medals count on the four occasions when Russia was beaten.Meanwhile, a meeting of the Asian Weightlifting

For many Commonwealth Games Associations, the next five days will present a first glimpse of Gold Coast 2018.

 Similarly, the multi-purpose facility in Carrara is poised to host badminton, powerlifting, weightlifting

When it eventually came, the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) decision to suspend nine

wrong.To go slightly further, it is shambolic and farcical.This week, reports circulated that the European Weightlifting

nation, could take part despite the suspension.It came after Maxim Agapitov, the head of the Russian Weightlifting

It should stay that way.The EWF's supposed move is also counter-productive at a time when weightlifting

IOC President Thomas Bach has warned weightlifting to address their doping problem or lose their place

- just as the European Championships should remain in March and April as previously scheduled - if weightlifting

An appeal by Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova against the decision to strip her of the Olympic bronze medal she won at Beijing 2008 has been dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today.

athletics.Belarus is the next nation on the list, with 23 instances, while 50 cases have emerged in weightlifting

Next year's European Weightlifting Championships in Antalya has been moved so the seven countries, including

Games in Beijing and London respectively.Russia was the worst offender with 10 positives.But Russian Weightlifting

The decision to move the event was taken following a meeting between the European Weightlifting Federation

(EWF) and the Turkish Weightlifting Federation.

USA Weightlifting has confirmed that an Iranian athlete has been denied a visa to attend the 2017 International

Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships, which are scheduled to take place in Anaheim from

travelled to the United Arab Emirates for the necessary interviews.Phil Andrews, the chief executive of USA Weightlifting

Andrews added, however, that the Iran Weightlifting Federation has already re-applied for the unnamed

stated that Ehsan Sharif Ahmadi, a national team masseur, was part of the foursome along with the Iran Weightlifting

Federation's director of public relations.This year's IWF World Weightlifting Championships are due

new travel ban came as a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations was set to expire.USA Weightlifting

Russian coach Oleg Pisarevsky has criticised the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) decision

has already been sanctioned for their doping issue after they were the only nation banned from the weightlifting

Weightlifting will hand over its anti-doping programme to an Independent Testing Authority (ITA) as a

Several senior figures in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) have spoken in the past two

months before the December deadline to persuade the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that weightlifting

the retesting of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.Thomas Bach, the IOC President, said weightlifting

Commission, whose primary focus is to decide on the bodyweight categories for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where weightlifting

The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) are set to hold discussions over the qualifying criteria for their athletes to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

sports.Apolonia Vaivai secured the country’s only medal of the Games, earning a bronze in the women’s 75 kilogram weightlifting

The Under-16 Women's Asia Championship 2017, a basketball competition taking place in Bangalore, India, from October 22 to 28, has been invested with historic meaning.

The US weightlifting organisation would not accept the long-sleeve shirts, trousers and hijab she wore

When Abdullah issued a press release highlighting why she could not compete as a Muslim woman, the weightlifting

It was not until the Sydney Olympics in 2000 that women first participated in weightlifting," she told