Russia won three European Junior and Under-23 weightlifting titles here in Eilat, taking their tally

featured in Part Two of the report into institutionalised doping in Russia, which was released today.The weightlifting

said she had "never seen anything like it".Maxim Agapitov, who took over as President of the Russian Weightlifting

"I want to help because weightlifting is not just my job, it’s my life. 

It was an interesting day for new Russian Weightlifting Association President Maxim Agapitov ©FacebookTwo

the national squad’s future was clouded when it was announced on Friday that all elite funding for weightlifting

This is the question that almost 120 weightlifting countries - if not more - are asking.

it possible that these doping countries do not want to understand that doping offences are ruining weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is taking a strong stance currently and it took a strong

Four Olympic sports have had their funding from UK Sport cut for the 2020 Games in Tokyo.

for the next four years today here at their headquarters in London as archery, badminton, fencing and weightlifting

More than 1,000 athletes across summer, winter and Paralympic sports were involved in a widespread state-sponsored doping system in Russia akin to an "institutional conspiracy", Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren has claimed when delivering the second part of his report here today.

©Getty Images"We have evidence that washout testing was being performed for at least athletics and weightlifting

Romanian weightlifter Gabriel Sîncrăian and Russian boxer Misha Aloyan have been stripped of their medals won at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after both athletes failed drugs tests during the event, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has confirmed today.

The 27-year-old Romanian claimed bronze in the men's 85 kilograms weightlifting event, while Aloyan was

CAS Anti-Doping Division means Kazakhstan's Denis Ulanov would be promoted to third place in the 85kg weightlifting

Further sanctions could now be initiated by both the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has increased pressure on Russia on the eve of the McLaren Report findings by calling for a life ban from the Olympic Games for all figures proven to be involved in the manipulation of doping samples.

raises concerns with regard to some countries, in particular Russia, and to some sports, in particular weightlifting

Freyja Olafsdotttir, a 20-year-old from Reykjavik, was never going to challenge for a place on the podium on a day when Ukraine won three European junior titles, but she won the popularity contest in Eilat – and recent happenings in Iceland have been one of the big talking points of the week among coaches and officials here. 

sport that features gymnastic, strength and lifting disciplines, and has led to a worldwide increase in weightlifting

 Crossfit is a 21st century creation that is huge on social media, but many in weightlifting have

when they competed at the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Houston last

competing in weightlifting to Crossfit.

 "I’m going to be the first Icelandic woman to go to the Olympics in weightlifting."

Two weightlifters who suffered elbow injuries at the World Championships and Olympic Games took gold on day four of the European Junior and Under-23 Championships here in Eilat.

earned her a second European junior title and continued her progression in what should be an illustrious weightlifting

Qatar Cup this month but the European seniors will be my next big competition," said Koha, who took up weightlifting

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) most senior member said the organisation lost "its moral authority" when it refused to ban the entire Russian team from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

Getty ImagesAs further tests on samples from 2008 and 2012 have revealed widespread doping offences in weightlifting

I love weightlifting, it's an elemental, strategic, exciting sport, but it has a problem," he said."

title since 2011 and strengthened his home town’s claim to be the undisputed champion city of world weightlifting

There is nowhere else in the world like it," said Antonio Urso, President of Italian Weightlifting and

Nobody talks about football in Caltanissetta, only weightlifting.

him, perhaps two.The Caltanissetta region is renowned for its dry red wine and liqueurs, but it is weightlifting

in Eilat are from Caltanissetta, and eight from Sicily.Urso has written a book about his home town, "Weightlifting

things moving in the 1960s and, said Urso, genetics and social organisation played a big part in the weightlifting

as former Soviet Bloc countries won all four overall gold medals on day one of the European Junior Weightlifting

 "Weightlifting is a growing sport in Norway."

 They will all be banned from international weightlifting for a year as they had three or more positives

In her first international contest.Morrow, 18, who took up weightlifting only a year ago after being

Europe’s highest-ranking weightlifting administrator says the sport needs to make fundamental changes

"We need a new way, a new direction," Antonio Urso, President of the European Weightlifting Federation

 Weightlifting accounted for nearly half of all retrospective positives, with 48 cheats caught and

If we lose our place in the Olympic Games, weightlifting will be nothing."

 The Italian will stand for Presidency of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) next

If weightlifting wants to be a popular sport we don’t need one lifter who lifts 300 kilos, we need 10

The difference between the highest and lowest totals lifted by the men’s super-heavyweights at the European Under-23 Championships could be 150 kilograms – because the world record holder and reigning Olympic champion will be competing.

Turkish weightlifter Sibel Özkan will officially lose her Beijing 2008 Olympic silver medal after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed her appeal against her retroactive disqualification from the 48 kilograms event by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for doping.

provide substantial assistance" to the IOC by "disclosure of sensitive information about the Turkish Weightlifting

respondent to dispose of this case".Sibel Özkan offered to provide sensitive information about the Turkish Weightlifting

results obtained by Sibel Özkan Konak during the Beijing Olympiad, including a silver medal in the -48kg weightlifting