International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven has apologised to International Olympic Committee (IOC) counterpart Thomas Bach after the Briton fiercely criticised the German during a prank phone call, insidethegames has been told.

result, a reduced number of competitors from the nation participated in Rio, with the International Weightlifting

Anaheim in the United States has stepped in to replace Penang as host of the 2017 World Weightlifting

saddened that Penang will not be able to host the 2017 IWF World Championships," said International Weightlifting

We are grateful that Anaheim stepped in to host the world's biggest weightlifting competition of 2017

wrestling action at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics.Penang in Malaysia had been due to host the World Weightlifting

It is an honour to welcome the 2017 IWF World Championships to the United States," added USA Weightlifting

Russian weightlifter Apti Aukhadov has been stripped of a London 2012 silver medal after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed he had tested positive following the re-analysis of samples.

bronze medal position after managing 375kg.In total, 41 cases have been registered by the International Weightlifting

Budapest 2024 claim to be building good relations with the international sporting community by holding a series of meetings with world governing bodies in the Hungarian capital.

International Federations from boxing, fencing, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, shooting, taekwondo and weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has confirmed that four athletes failed drugs tests

Rio 2016 and Kazakhstan's Denis Ulanov promoted to the bronze in the IWF's official magazine World Weightlifting

 But in the IWF's official magazine, World Weightlifting, Sîncrăian is already listed as disqualified

Tomasz Zielinski, who is poised to collect a London 2012 bronze medal, was named by the International Weightlifting

 Zielinski is expected to receive the bronze medal in the men’s 94 kilogram weightlifting event&

Romanian weightlifter Gabriel Sîncrăian is poised to lose the bronze medal he won at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after being notified of a failed drugs test.

Artykov has already been stripped of an under 69kg bronze - briefly his country's first ever Olympic weightlifting

More than 5,000 people visited the powerlifting spectator experience during the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro last month, it has been announced.

the Riocentro Common Domain at the Games, and took place between September 8 and 14 with support of weightlifting

Olympic medallist Yoshiyuki Miyake has been elected President of the Japanese Weightlifting Association

Koike, whose weightlifting experience was a reassurance to the sports world as she took up the Governor

Meeting on September 10," explained a letter signed by the Secretariat of the JWA and sent to the wider weightlifting

advantage of this opportunity to express our highest appreciation to the World, Continental and National Weightlifting

Yoshiyuki Miyake is the new President of the Japanese Weightlifting Association ©WikipediaThis came ahead

There will be the same number of medal events for men and women at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, it was announced here today.

Seven additional women's events in boxing, cycling and weightlifting have been added to the programme

the new over 90 kilograms for women event, only approved last month by the International Weightlifting

There will be eight women's weightlifting categories at Gold Coast 2018 ©Getty ImagesThe addition of

the new over 90kg category in weightlifting is particularly significant.This means eight categories now

 "The constitution recognized women weightlifting at its 1983 Congress wile the Olympic Games included

American weightlifter Norik Vardanian has tested positive for a banned substance in a sample he provided while competing for Armenia at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. 

Vardanian has been provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after

Rio 2016 after also testing positive for nandrolone.Moldova appear set to receive a one-year ban from weightlifting

British triathlete Alistair Brownlee, Australian swimmer Emily Seebohm and New Zealand rower Mahé Drysdale are among another 20 athletes whose leaked data has been revealed by Russian group Fancy Bears' after the cyber-attack on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

the 4x100 metres medley relay.Colombian weightlifter Óscar Figueroa, winner of the men’s 62 kilograms weightlifting

A working group convened to assess the feasibility of reviving the World Combat Games is set to propose a more cost-conscious event at next month's International Federations (IF) Forum in Lausanne.

boxing, fencing, judo, ju-jitsu, karate, kendo, kickboxing, muay thai, sambo, savate, sumo, taekwondo, weightlifting

, wrestling and wushu.insidethegames understands the participation of weightlifting is still up in the

air due to how it is not, strictly speaking, a combat sport.International Weightlifting Federation officials

followed boxing, taekwondo and wrestling announcing they were withdrawing from the event with fencing and weightlifting

Weightlifting's world governing body will take no action regarding the suspension of National Federations who have violated anti-doping rules until proceedings have been completed by both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

An International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) rule change introduced in June stipulated that any country

told insidethegames that the wait is "frustrating" as wider discontent continues to brew within the weightlifting

The 2015 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Houston has been named the

chief executive of the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority, and Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting

We were lucky to have great partners at the International Weightlifting Federation and the Harris County-Houston

Cup.Russia’s Alexey Lovchev was one of 17 athletes suspended for positive drug tests by the International Weightlifting

 Weightlifting has proved to be a problem sport when it comes to doping with a total of 47 weightlifters

Gender equality has been achieved in weightlifting after the total number of female bodyweight categories

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Committee approved that new events be added