broke his own clean and jerk world record in thrilling fashion to take the men's under 56 kilogram weightlifting

We don't call him "Mr Weightlifting" in our office for nothing. 

Early stages of the clean and jerk section of the men's under 56kg weightlifting now.

" Nick Butler keeps us updated from the Moonlight Festival Garden Weightlifting Venue.

First gold for Kazakhstan18:03 Margarita Yelisseyeva has won the first weightlifting title of the Games

Medals will be won in synchronised swimming, track cycling, equestrian, fencing, judo, shooting, weightlifting

chair for athletes in Korean Olympic Committee; and Jang Miran, the first golden medalist for Korea in weightlifting"Interestingly

before North Korea, Iran were led out by the reigning Olympic, Asian and former world super heavyweight weightlifting

By Nick ButlerGreat effort will continue to be made by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to educate young athletes about the dangers of doping, after 15-year-old Russian twins Olga and Yelena Paushkina were each handed two-year bans.

suspensions.But cases have occurred across the sporting spectrum, with athletes from boxing, rowing, canoeing, weightlifting

By Emily GoddardFiji has revealed the names of its team officials for the Port Moresby 2015 Pacific Games.

Touch Rugby President Georgina LASAQA.Beijing 2008 Olympian Josefa Vueti has also been recommended for weightlifting

and Fiji Taekwondo President Daniel Mosese.Josefa Vueti has been recommended as a team official for weightlifting

By Paul OsborneWelsh medal winners from the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games are set to receive commemorative medals in honour of their performances.

2014: Wales name final swimming squad for Glasgow 2014June 2014: Returning champion Breeze leads Welsh weightlifting

option rather than McDonalds, the "Western" one, on this occasion - Bach was off again to check out the weightlifting

By Nick Butler at the Main Media Centre in NanjingNoah Lyles provided a much desired boost following a largely underwhelming few days for the United States here at the Summer Youth Olympic Games by bursting clear to win the 200 metres in a swift 20.80sec.

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By Nick Butler at the Main Press Centre in NanjingSailing action belatedly concluded here today with victories for the past, present and future host nations of the Summer Youth Olympic Games: Singapore, China and Argentina.

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The gold and silver medallists in the triple jump at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne both left their mark, in their own way, in sporting history.In the second round there was a huge shock when Vilhjálmur Einarsson broke the Olympic record with a leap of 16.26 metres. His lead lasted only two rounds but Einarsson, in finishing second, became Iceland's first medallist and was thereafter known as "the silver man". He was so popular for his achievement that he was five times voted Iceland's sportsperson of the year. He later became a headmaster and a talented landscape artist.The Brazilian...

Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals", and a former sports editor of The Observer, was weightlifting

taken last night, with the athletics taking place in the big stadium in the foreground, and swimming, weightlifting

By Paul Osborne at the Main Media Centre in NanjingJamaica's Jaheel Hyde provided the highlight of a frantic day of athletics action inside the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Stadium as he set a world youth record in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the Summer Youth Olympic Games. 

Martirosyan, who lifted his way to a clean and jerk record of 221 kilograms en route to gold in the over 85kg weightlifting

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Armenian dominates final weightlifting event20:36 A new youth clean and jerk world record by the Armenian

Atlanta 1996, courtesy of Armen Nazaryan.20:31 Simon Martirosyan decimates the field to win the final weightlifting

"- An update from Nanjing 2014 about more delays with sailing.18:59 It's the final weightlifting competition

Along with a nine gold medals in athletics, and further ones in tennis, table tennis, weightlifting,

our first of five action packed days; the table tennis; the modern pentathlon; the tennis; and the weightlifting

By Paul Osborne at the Main Media Centre in Nanjing Swimming action ended with a splash here at the Summer Youth Olympic Games, with nine newly-crowned gold medallists bringing a conclusion to the week-long swim-fest inside the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Natatorium.

continued her country's impressive form at these Games with victory in the women's over 63 kilogram weightlifting

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Claverie.Russian's Anton Chupkov seals his fourth medal of the Games in third.19:26 It's all over in the weightlifting

cracker and it's looking that way at the minute.19:02 We're coming to the "dough making" end of the weightlifting

us time (just) to look elsewhere for a moment.Over at the International Expo Centre the men's 85kg weightlifting

India.The two singles and mixed doubles finals begin at 17:00.15:54 Underway in the girl's over 63kg weightlifting

They have won gold in weightlifting and silver in judo, but we also though they had a second gold, which

By Nick Butler at the Main Media Centre in NanjingIn little more than an hour, weightlifter Sara Ahmed and swimmer Akram Ahmed secured a golden double for Egypt, and the first two victories for African athletes at these Summer Youth Olympic Games.