Thunya Sukcharoen claimed Thailand’s second gold medal of the International Weightlifting Federation

Mingmoon of Thailand produced a dominant display to secure men’s 56 kilograms gold at the International Weightlifting

’t break record.”The event in the Georgian capital is due to run until July 2.The 2016 Junior World Weightlifting

“A week is a long time in politics,” former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson is adjudged to have told lobby journalists in the early 1960s. His descendent David Cameron learnt this lesson too well last week after Britain's most tumultuous seven days in generations.

neutral flag, before Russia - along with Belarus and Kazakhstan - was suspended by the International Weightlifting

nature of Russia has certainly added to the criticism, and there has been far less of a focus on the weightlifting

Back in December, I wrote a blog in the aftermath of the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston

forward six months and it’s not the IAAF being made to look weak in comparison to the International Weightlifting

Wednesday (June 22), the IWF confirmed during its Executive Board meeting in Tbilisi that the Russian Weightlifting

: Payne's tweet: "#Weightlifting - possible for the sport to survive without doping?

 A "very senior Olympic insider" is quoted by the Press Association as saying: "Weightlifting should

IWF Anti-Doping Commission chairman Patrick Schamasch says weightlifting is in danger because of drug

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has claimed that he will resign if a ban on the country's athletes competing at this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro is extended to include the whole team.

along with Belarus and Kazakhstan, who w ill be suspended for one year by the International Weightlifting

Azerbaijan has become the latest country criticised by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for its lack of effective domestic drugs testing programmes.

frameworks to better combat the problem,The country has faced multiple doping failures, particularly in weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Congress has voted unanimously here today to introduce

be removed with 85kg and over 85kg classes being added.As early as 1987, there were official World Weightlifting

World Championships - beginning tomorrow here in Georgia’s capital - will be the first-ever global weightlifting

are due to compete across the eight days of competition, made up of 140 men and 110 women.Rio 2016 weightlifting

The Organising Committee will look to deliver weightlifting competitions according to the IWF’s Technical

On Wednesday (June 22), it was confirmed that the weightlifting Federations of Belarus, Kazakhstan and

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that Belarusian, Kazakhstani and Russian weightlifters could be banned from this year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

re-analysis of samples from 2008 and 2012 Olympics in Beijing and London respectively.The International Weightlifting

Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Kazakhstan's Olympic champion Ilya Ilyin was one of three weightlifting

following the re-analysis of samples by the IOC.This came after the news that all four Kazakhstan weightlifting

following re-analysis of samples from the Games.Kazakhstan's Olympic champion Ilya Ilyin was one of three weightlifting

countries are allowed to compete.Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said yesterday that the Russian Weightlifting

this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have been allocated in principle by the International Weightlifting

quota.Argentina, Peru and Uruguay have been granted a women’s quota.The worst could still be yet to come for the weightlifting

meeting was that to affiliate Burundi as the 192nd Member Federation of the world governing body.Rio 2016 weightlifting

European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) President Antonio Urso has hit back at calls from the International

Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for the continental governing body to reconsider its decision to appoint

Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) chief Sergey Syrtsov as the chairman of its Anti-Doping Commission

cases involving Russian weightlifters such as Marina Shainova ©Getty ImagesThe RWF is one of three weightlifting

the IWF confirmed reports that Russians Marina Shainova and Nadezhda Evstyukhina were two of three weightlifting

North Korea's capital Pyongyang has been awarded the 2018 Junior World Weightlifting Championships, it

nbsp;Eilat in Israel and Anaheim in California.All five candidates presented to the International Weightlifting

Russian weigthtlifer Alexey Lovchev, currently serving a four-year doping suspension, has said he would insist in a judicial process that the permitted substance ecdisten had been found in his body.

©Getty ImagesLovchev said he did not agree with the four-year ban given to him by the International Weightlifting

Dadashbayli for four years after positive doping tests following the 2015 World Championships.The Russian Weightlifting

Bulgaria’s Stela Eneva has been stripped of her International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships F57 shot put gold medal and ruled out of Rio 2016 after she was given a four-year ban for doping.

conformity with the general principles of the WADC.”The development follows the Bulgarian Olympic weightlifting

team being banned from this year’s Games in the Brazilian city by the International Weightlifting

qualification period, a decision exclusively revealed by insidethegames.That prompted the Bulgarian Weightlifting

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has described the decision to provisionally ban his country’s weightlifters from international competition as "a psychotic episode" that is outside the legal framework.

The Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF), along with the Belarusian and Kazakhstani equivalents,

Earlier this week, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) confirmed reports that Russians Marina

Shainova and Nadezhda Evstyukhina were two of three weightlifting medallists from Beijing 2008 to have

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has called for the European Weightlifting Federation

(EWF) to reconsider its decision to appoint Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) President Sergey

the current environment, the IWF Executive Board strongly suggests that Mr Syrtsov and the European Weightlifting

 The RWF is one of three weightlifting Federations, along with those of Belarus and Kazakhstan,

the IWF confirmed reports that Russians Marina Shainova and Nadezhda Evstyukhina were two of three weightlifting