When Hampton Morris begins his quest to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in his "home away from home" in Colombia next week he will look beyond setting yet another world record.

Morris has two tasks in Bogotá: to put in a good performance at the International Weightlifting Federation

The number one point, definitely, is helping to ensure that weightlifting stays an Olympic sport," he

I always enjoy it, the weightlifting community there is a lot of fun."

I did well at school and in weightlifting, and didn’t get much socialisation outside school."

That really solidified my interest in weightlifting… and I wasn’t all that good at soccer anyway."

Belgian athletes and Para athletes preparing for Paris 2024 have spent another successful training stint at the Gloria Sports Arena in Belek in Turkey.

Representatives from 13 Olympic sports - athletics, rowing, track cycling and mountain biking, sport climbing, weightlifting

The Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF), known as the "One Voice for all Sport", has been silenced.

read a message from Attila Adamfi, vice-president and acting secretary general of the International Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is severing a significant link with its troubled past

The IWF has had offices in the Hungarian capital since the early 1980s, throughout the decades when weightlifting

It’s good for weightlifting and it shows the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that as far as we

The IOC, which removed weightlifting from the Olympic Games programme for Los Angeles 2028, will not

American weightlifter John Davis is a double Olympic gold medallist.He won the over-82.5kg title at London 1948 and then the over-90kg title four years later in Helsinki.Davis was undefeated between 1938 and 1953, a remarkable 15-year streak which also saw him win seven world titles, the Pan American Games gold medal in 1951 and 11 national crowns.He was the first person to clean and jerk more than 400lbs and the second to post a combined total of more than 1,000lb.His only defeat before retirement came at the 1953 World Championships when he was struggling with a thigh problem.At one stage...

Louis Hostin is considered as the best weightlifter from France of all time.He won two light heavyweight titles at the Olympic Games - at 82.5 kilograms at Los Angeles 1932 and Berlin 1936.Hostin also won a silver medal in the same division at the Amsterdam 1928 Olympics.Other accomplishments include two European titles and silver and bronze medals at the World Championships, an event which only formed in the later stages of his career.He set 10 world records during his career and at one stage was French national champion 13 years in a row.

The greatest weightlifter from Japan, Yoshinobu Miyake is one of the world's strongest ever men when ranking lifters pound-for-pound.At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome he won a silver medal in the 56 kilograms bantamweight class, before a switch to the 60kg featherweight division saw him clinch Olympic golds on home soil at Tokyo 1964 and then at Mexico City 1968.Miyake was known for his "frog" style of lifting, also known as the "Miyake pull", where he would spread out his knees to resemble the amphibian. During his career he set 25 world records, and he won six overall world titles.He...

Commonwealth Games, she was named as Canada's co-flagbearer.Aged seven, Charron said she wanted to take up weightlifting

Tokyo 2020, China's Lü Xiaojun won gold in the men's 80kg class to become, at 37, the oldest Olympic weightlifting

Chen Yanqing is one of the early stars of women's weightlifting at the Olympic Games after winning back-to-back

Georgian-born Kakhi Kakhiashvili won three Olympic gold medals during his career, with the first for the Unified Team which competed at Barcelona 1992 following the break-up of the Soviet Union.That came at 90 kilograms after a dispute with his coach who wanted team-mate Sergey Syrtsov to clinch gold.Syrtsov led after the snatch and Kakhiashvili defied his coach to add extra weight for his final lift in the clean and jerk.He set the bar at a world record of 235kg which he duly lifted to claim top spot on bodyweight rules after tying with Syrtsov.Kakhiashvili, who had a Greek mother, then...

North Korea's Rim Jong-sim has established herself as one of the most successful Olympic weightlifters since the introduction of women's events at Sydney 2000.At London 2012, she won the gold medal in the 69 kilograms division and she added to that with 75kg success at Rio 2016.Rim won the total title at the 2019 World Championships in Pattaya in Thailand.She was also crowned as the Asian Games gold medallist at the 2018 edition in Jakarta and Palembang, and became the Asian Championships winner a year later.

exchange three world record lifts at the end of the competition.This was described as the "greatest weightlifting

and broke 46 world records in all.He failed in an audacious bid for an unprecedented fourth Olympic weightlifting

sounded.After retirement he moved into politics and sports governance, and currently sits on the International Weightlifting

Competition at these Games sees the introduction of women's weightlifting for the first time, across

win their third Olympic titles.Zhan Xugang of China wins his second Olympic title in a row.Women's weightlifting