Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) secretary general Faris Al Kooheji has highlighted the importance of linking up with other countries as the island territory looks to improve its athletes.

infrastructure but only if it will leave a lasting legacy.The country is bidding to host the 2024 World Weightlifting

Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) President Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa watched the strongest men from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) compete as the country's Strength Week concluded here.

press, max deadlift and power stairs.It was part of Strength Week in the Kingdom which has also seen weightlifting

Whisper the name Magnús Ver Magnússon to British people of a certain age and it might cause them to think about Christmas.

The action is part of Bahrain's "Strength Week" - which has also featured weightlifting, powerlifting

at the moment, and you have to believe that drug testers would be on high alert.Power sports such as weightlifting

The strongest men in Bahrain were in action as the Kingdom's "Strength Week" continued here.

organisers to prepare Strength Week in December.Other strength sports have also taken place, including weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has avoided the embarrassment of having to welcome the

forfeited two gold medals, was strongly supported in his campaign to become President of the Kazakhstan Weightlifting

I was not directly the President of the weightlifting federation, but yesterday we sat together with

the Minister of Culture and Sports, the vice-minister and thought about how to do it right for weightlifting

Coaches, youth, the national team of Kazakhstan, the weightlifting sports community - they all very much

, that results in international competitions had been good and that weightlifting was growing in popularity

Two Olympic gold medallists and a world champion were among the weightlifters who took to the streets this week to help promote the sport in Bahrain and raise the credentials of the Gulf nation as a future host of international competitions.

Street weightlifting outside a high-end shopping mall was one of the highlights of the ongoing "Strength

It’s a way of promoting weightlifting from a different perspective."

We were able to showcase Bahrain as a weightlifting venue, to market the sport to the public, and to

We look forward to hosting major international weightlifting competitions in the future."

and would welcome the Bahrain street competition as a regular fixture on the weightlifting calendar.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is planning to keep closer checks on coaches as part

The licence project is for the future, to make weightlifting better."

categories from club to international standard ©Getty ImagesAsked if coaches should have more of a voice in weightlifting

The coaching licence scheme will be used by the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) at two of its

latest step towards a better future at the IWF, which was told by the IOC to "change its culture" if weightlifting

A group of 76 people with, at a conservative estimate, well over 2,000 years of experience in weightlifting

few were elite coaches and every one of them, from 32 nations, signed up to a scheme that can help weightlifting

in its efforts to regain its place on the Olympic Games programme.When weightlifting, along with boxing

be drawn up after a pilot period, which must be cleared by lawyers and approved by the International Weightlifting

“If you don’t have the support of your Federation you will not be able to coach in international weightlifting

“The IOC is impressed with what we have done but it wants us to clean weightlifting and we must do more

Bahrain, Venezuela, Armenia and Albania  - are among the five bidders to host the 2024 International Weightlifting

Venezuela, which has hosted dozens of international events in a range of sports including two Pan American Weightlifting

Championships this century, but never a global weightlifting event.Bahrain earned praise from athletes

strength sports is staged in Manama, its capital city, next week it will feature an innovative street weightlifting

Last year's Asian Weightlifting Championships in Bahrain's capital Manama was widely praised ©AWFBulgaria

Thomas Bach praised the efforts of weightlifters from the Americas on a visit to the Dominican Republic, which helped the region to achieve its best ever results in the sport at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Willian Ozuna, President of the Dominican Republic Weightlifting Federation and former President of the

Pan American Weightlifting Federation (PAWF), met Bach during the International Olympic Committee (IOC

five sports in which the country has won Olympic medals - athletics, boxing, taekwondo, baseball and weightlifting

In the weightlifting pavilion, Thomas Bach highlighted the great work of our sport in the continent,

Mexico, Venezuela and the United States have collectively entered more than 50 athletes.Ozuna said weightlifting

A two-year "weightlifting war" in Bulgaria is finally over and a federation that was said to be "lost

Star Bulgarian weightlifter Karlos Nasar has been stuck in the middle of a "weightlifting war" in the

country ©Bulgarian Weightlifting FederationWhen clubs recently began setting up a rival body to run

We have to change the image of Bulgarian weightlifting."

He was grateful for support throughout the "weightlifting war", as the local media dubbed it, from the

European Weightlifting Federation (EWF)."

This week, 25 years ago on a sunny spring morning in London, an ensemble of 10 Bunga Manggar bearers carrying floral decorations and 20 drummers beating Kompang drums made their way onto the courtyard at Buckingham Palace. 

a second outside the world record.He added the 400m freestyle and also came home two relay golds.In weightlifting

Jamaican sambists have given a demonstration of the sport to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach during his visit to Kingston.

was also shown demonstrations by participants in fencing, volleyball, basketball, boxing, archery, weightlifting

The French national weightlifting team has returned from a successful training camp in China which its

athletes and four coaches and support personnel spent three weeks learning from the world’s strongest weightlifting

69 kilograms class," he said.Dabaya, a world champion in 2006, is now assistant coach at the French Weightlifting

Federation (FFHM).At last year’s International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in

A key moment came when the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) organised a seminar with the Chinese

Weightlifting Association (CWA) in November 2021 in which France participated.During the online event

medallist Sajjad Anoushirivani in trying to restore Iran's status as one of the top achievers in world weightlifting

interim role by Iran's Sports Ministry in August, was elected unopposed as President of the Iranian Weightlifting

Anoushirivani was a silver medallist behind Salimi in London and at the previous year's International Weightlifting

We are trying to move the wheels forward and put weightlifting on the track of development and progress

decision on appointing a national head coach by the end of the week.Anoushirivani sits on the Asian Weightlifting

We have a good plan for women's weightlifting and it's very important for us to take part in the Olympic