Women’s British weightlifting clean and jerk record holder Rebekah Tiler will be England’s flagbearer

athletes will compete in archery, athletics, boxing, lawn bowls, rugby sevens, squash, swimming and weightlifting

No rights to introduce bans for nations are held by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the body has clarified, although the compliance of all signatories of the World Anti-Doping Code will be a "priority item" on the agenda of the next Foundation Board meeting to be held in November.

but such bans have occasionally been handed out within individual sports.In 2001, the International Weightlifting

Weightlifting equipment supplier Eleiko Sports have been announced as a partner of the International

Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Houston.

nine-day competition, the first of its kind to be held in the United States for 40 years.The World Weightlifting

“USA Weightlifting is excited to partner with Harris County - Houston Sports Authority and Eleiko as

we host the first Weightlifting World Championships on American soil in nearly 40 years," USA Weightlifting

that we have in hosting this prestigious event.”Related storiesFebruary 2015: Logo for 2015 World Weightlifting

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Mostafa Davoudi, former President of the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has died aged 76 after a long battle with illness.

they were held in London, and have since claimed a total of 60 medals across the sports of wrestling, weightlifting

Venezuelan weightlifter Jesus Gonzalez Barrios has become the 17th athlete implicated in a doping scandal at the Pan American Games in Toronto and is set to be the first stripped of a gold medal after reportedly testing positive for an unnamed substance.

lifted a combined total of 385 kilograms in the under 105kg competition on July 15, the final day of the weightlifting

Michael Bloomfield has been appointed as Tonga's Chef de Mission for Rio 2016, it has been announced.

Bloomfield is President of the Tonga Weightlifting Association.His appointment was confirmed by the Tonga

Pacific Games Council (PGC) executive director Andrew Minogue has hailed the participation of Australia and New Zealand at at the 15th edition of the event, which finished here yesterday. 

countries were invited to take part by the PCG in four sports - taekwondo, sailing, rugby sevens and weightlifting

women’s crowns, while they also enjoyed a high level of success in shooting, lawn bowls, karate and weightlifting

Yane Marques hung on for a thrilling women's modern pentathlon victory today at Toronto 2015 on a night where Brazil's Thiago Pereira equalled - and then broke - the all-time record for medals at the Pan American Games.

scoop double Toronto 2015 gold on final day of artistic gymnasticsJuly 2015: Colombian Cuesta wins weightlifting

Lima wants to stage as many international events as possible over the next few years to prepare for a bid to host to the Olympics and Paralympics, Peruvian Olympic Committee President José Quiñones has claimed. 

to the withdrawal of many key sports.Taekwondo, boxing and wrestling all pulled out, while fencing, weightlifting

Mexico's Luis Alvarez recovered superbly from a near-calamitous mistake in the fourth set to claim gold in the Pan American Games archery final today after Kathuna Lorig, the American who trained Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence to use a bow, won the women's title.

scoop double Toronto 2015 gold on final day of artistic gymnasticsJuly 2015: Colombian Cuesta wins weightlifting

Canada's Emily Overholt recovered superbly from the blow of being disqualified after initially finishing first last night at the Pan American Games by storming to a superb victory in the 400 metres freestyle here on an evening in which Bahamas claimed gold and two Caribbean nations secured maiden medals.

scoop double Toronto 2015 gold on final day of artistic gymnasticsJuly 2015: Colombian Cuesta wins weightlifting

Mijaín López became only the third wrestler in history to win four Pan American Games gold medals after the Cuban superstar delivered a masterclass in the men's under 130 kilograms Greco-Roman wrestling final today.

scoop double Toronto 2015 gold on final day of artistic gymnasticsJuly 2015: Colombian Cuesta wins weightlifting

Brazil’s Thiago Pereira became the most successful athlete in the history of Pan American Games swimming here today, winning his 20th and 21st all-time medals to move above compatriot Gustavo Borges in the all-time stakes,

another good day for Brazil as, along with their three swimming golds, there was a successful heavyweight weightlifting

scoop double Toronto 2015 gold on final day of artistic gymnasticsJuly 2015: Colombian Cuesta wins weightlifting

Canada's Ellie Black and Colombia's Jossimar Calvo Moreno secured double gold on the final day of artistic gymnastics competition here today, to end their participation at the 2015 Pan American Games with three gold medal each.

Whittenburg finished 0.163 points behind to take silver.Related storiesJuly 2015: Colombian Cuesta wins weightlifting

Colombia's continued success story at the Oshawa Sports Centre by dominating the women's under 75 kilograms weightlifting

Valdes of Chile and Ferreira, who finished with totals of 231 and 230kg respectively.An eighth Colombian weightlifting

Mexico's Aremi Fuentes, who lifted 225 and 223kg each.Leidy Yessenia Solis Arboleda won Colombia's eighth weightlifting

"Here I am, the 2015 gold medal winner.”The final gold medal of the penultimate day of weightlifting