New Zealand have named double Commonwealth Games weightlifting gold medallist Nigel Avery as Chef de

Jiang Huihua gave China a winning start on day two of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF

North Korea's suspension from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), imposed after it missed competing at Tokyo 2020, will be lifted at the end of this year, it was confirmed here today.

Munich 1972, North Korea has won a total of 46 medals, including 16 gold, five of which have been in weightlifting

Hidilyn Diaz made history at Tokyo 2020 by becoming the first Olympic gold medallist in the history of The Philippines. 

Ecuador's Neisi Dajomes won Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 in the women's 76 kilograms division.

Cuba is set to allow women to box officially after decades of restrictions, but it was not confirmed if it would be at a professional level as was sanctioned for male athletes earlier this year.

professional boxing in 1962.Women were already allowed to compete in other contact sports such as wrestling, weightlifting

Thailand claimed first and second place in the opening medal event of the 2022 International Weightlifting

since she began as a 15-year-old, Sukcharoen has never once finished off the podium in international weightlifting

the IWF World Championships and one at the Youth Olympic Games.That led to a suspension for "bringing weightlifting

is fielding a maximum team of 20.Before the lifting started all of Colombia’s Olympic medallists in weightlifting

gave a welcome speech.Urrutia became her country’s first Olympic champion in any sport, and its first weightlifting

Dika Toua, the first female weightlifter to compete at the Olympic Games five times, has begun her quest to make it six.

38-year-old mother of two from Papua New Guinea, lifted on the opening day of the 2022 International Weightlifting

makes it as the highest-placed Oceania athlete she will lift at the Olympic Games aged 40.Toua became a weightlifting

She’s into netball, athletics and weightlifting so we’ll see how it goes from here," said Toua.

International Testing Agency (ITA) re-analysis of samples from the London 2012 Olympics led to 73 anti-doping rule violations and the withdrawal of 31 medals, final figures show.

Russian athletes were responsible for 21 of the rule violations, the most of any country, while weightlifting

full list of weightlifting’s qualifying events for Paris 2024 has been announced by the International Weightlifting

Thailand in April.The qualifying period ends three months before the Games begin in Paris on July 26 2024.Weightlifting

of its athlete quotas since the 2016 Olympic Games and will have 120 places in Paris.There were 260 weightlifting

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board is set to hold a three-day meeting here tomorrow, discussing a host of key issues including the status of the International Boxing Association (IBA).

Extraordinary Congress in September ©IBAThe IOC also warned that a "culture change" is necessary within weightlifting

At the end of a year when weightlifting news has been dominated by reforms, election controversies, politics

and doping, the athletes return to centre stage tomorrow at the 2022 International Weightlifting Federation

Zacarias Bonnat, an Olympic silver medallist last year who was voted on to the International Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation Executive Board met in Bogota ©IWFAntonio Urso, the IWF general

Olympic kayak gold medallist Ken Wallace has been named Australia's Chef de Mission for next year's Pacific Games.

2020 Olympics ©Getty ImagesThe AOC plans to send archery, athletics, boxing, sailing, taekwondo and weightlifting

Members of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will be told this weekend that the sport's

Olympic Committee (IOC) to change its mind, said the IWF general secretary Antonio Urso.The IOC ditched weightlifting

This is an enormous project," said Urso, whose long-term planning envisions "a new weightlifting" if

and when the next Olympic cycle starts after Paris.Antonio Urso claims weightlifting is "in a good position

Federation.Changing the way weightlifting is presented is more of a long-term goal, for beyond Paris

There will be a new weightlifting after 2024."