The ceremonial baton containing the Queen’s message to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games athletes is visiting Liverpool and Birmingham this weekend. Both cities hope to be chosen as England’s candidate to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

The 19th Century Town Hall was considered “a suitable venue for weightlifting allowing a proscenium type

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) General Assembly today voted in favour of changes to the organisation's statutes that introduced term and age limits.

governance.Hungary's Tamas Aján was re-elected for the fifth time as President of the International Weightlifting

Chunghwa Post have announced a range of stamps and a souvenir sheet to commemorate the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade.

compete in, with archery, athletics, baseball, basketball, taekwondo, table tennis, volleyball and weightlifting

New evidence has emerged of how growth in the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) cash distributions to International Federations (IFs) slowed dramatically in the 2013-2016 quadrennium.

other sports in the band C category – badminton, boxing, judo, table tennis, shooting, archery and weightlifting

Sport England has released £9 million ($11.5 million/€10 million) in funding to Table Tennis England after the organisation voted in favour of governance reforms.

BaseballSoftballUK, British Basketball, British Fencing, British Handball, British Volleyball, British Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced the make-up of its special commission

category than Rio 2016, and 64 fewer athlete places.The SPC, comprising key stakeholders from all areas of weightlifting

to report to a special meeting of the IWF Executive Board in Romania on September 30 and October 1.Weightlifting

is joined by Attila Adamfi, the IWF’s director general from Hungary, and Japan's Reiko Chinen, the weightlifting

2020 and a member of the IWF Technical Committee;Joining them will be Matthew Curtain, the London 2012 weightlifting

marketing partner - is a guarantee to involve and consider the viewpoints of all those associated with weightlifting

A teenage weightlifter from Fiji broke 20 records at the Pacific Cup International in New Caledonia and is a hot favourite to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

Eileen Cikamatana, 17, improved on her runners-up performance at the International Weightlifting Federation

and European senior championships.The event, watched by a large and enthusiastic crowd at the Oceania Weightlifting

Weightlifting.Eileen Cikamatana is a gold medal favourite for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast ©Oceania Weightlifting

Five athletes from the Midlands have pledged their support to Birmingham’s 2022 Commonwealth Games bid, with the candidate city claiming it highlights the youth, diversity and inclusion of their plans.

wrestling and the Genting Arena has been earmarked to stage badminton.The Symphony Hall would stage weightlifting

Donovan Ford came within one lift of making the grade for the United States' International Weightlifting

It is standing room only for many of the spectators at the world's most popular weightlifting competition

anywhere in the world - and that's with qualifying standards," said Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting

in New York, double what it was a few years ago," said Chris Smith, an official at the Metropolitan Weightlifting

The popularity of competitive fitness in CrossFit has fuelled the weightlifting boom, because so many

Turkey has targeted a medal haul of between 15 and 20 at next month's Summer Universiade after confirming their 88-strong team for the event in Taipei.

Taipei 2017 programme - archery, athletics, fencing, artistic gymnastics, judo, swimming, taekwando, weightlifting

The United States won six gold medals on the final day of competition at the Pan American Weightlifting

It provides a welcome environment outside of weightlifting, it gives me another network outside of sport

Brazil's most famous weightlifter duly finished first in the men's super-heavyweights - the final event of the Pan American Championships here in Miami - but has not been declared the winner.

It is all wrong and I have said so to the Executive Board of the Pan American Weightlifting Federation

Reis is from São Paulo and his home state's weightlifting federation is also suing the national federation

television interview for ESPN.In January this year Reis, who studied in the US, moved to Miami to set up a weightlifting

International Floorball Federation secretary general John Liljelund has claimed success at the 2021 World Games in American city Birmingham may propel the sport to the Olympic programme if Los Angeles hosts in 2028.

Olympic Games.Badminton, beach volleyball, trampolining, rugby sevens, taekwondo, triathlon and women's weightlifting

year-old sporting all-rounder, won the United States' first gold medal of their home 2017 Pan American Weightlifting

Burns is an athletes' representative on the Board of USA Weightlifting, coaches himself and lives with