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Kyle makes debut aged 38 as US team for IWF World Championships named

  • Weightlifting

The United States has named its team for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships

The USA Weightlifting team announcement comes as the sport gears up for a busy seven-week period that

competition with this many athletes was decades back," said Craig Walker, President of the Canadian Weightlifting

We shared a view that both Canadian and American weightlifting would benefit from pushing each other


Schormann insists UIPM "on the right track" after third test event of obstacle, which could feature at LA 2028

  • Modern Pentathlon

International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) President Klaus Schormann has insisted that the governing body is "on the right track" after its third test event of the obstacle discipline, which could replace riding at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.

Riding is set to be axed from modern pentathlon after Paris 2024, and the sport, along with boxing and weightlifting


Pakistan Olympic Association backs weightlifting leaders in dispute over "biased" ban

  • Weightlifting

The Pakistan Weightlifting Federation (PWLF), which faces exclusion from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

the PWLF, said the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB), a Government body, was "trying to snatch control of weightlifting

once again" after an "illegal" attempt to do so in 2013.Butt has informed the International Weightlifting

name as a member of the committee that has been created to undermine the authority of the Pakistan Weightlifting

In 2013 PSB created a parallel NOC by forming parallel national federations, including weightlifting.

Now with the same parallel weightlifting federation people, PSB is trying to snatch the control of weightlifting


Paris 2024 update set to feature on day one of IOC Executive Board meeting

  • Paris 2024

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board is poised to stage its fifth meeting of the year here tomorrow and on Friday (September 9), with an update on Paris 2024 set to be provided.

Modern Pentathlon Union as part of its controversial move to replace riding, while the International Weightlifting


IWF Executive Board elects delegates for Paris 2024 and Victoria 2026 at latest meeting

  • Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board has elected delegates for the Paris

Board member Sam Coffa has been appointed as the technical delegate for Victoria 2026.Commonwealth Weightlifting

Federation and Oceania Weightlifting Federation general secretary Paul Coffa was appointed as technical

for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games ©Matt CurtainThe Executive Board also approved the creation of the Weightlifting

Relations and Communications Commission, which will appoint members soon.With assistance from the European Weightlifting


Exclusive: Dimas speaks out after "racist" doping controversy in Albania

  • Weightlifting

Pyrros Dimas, a triple Olympic champion for Greece and President of its national weightlifting federation

, has described the head of Albanian weightlifting as "a joke" after he blamed the Dimas family and Greek

at the centre of the controversy, European champion Evagjelia Veli, has also dismissed the Albanian Weightlifting

Gjoza as "a racist and a liar".Dimas - born and raised in Albania and now performance director of USA Weightlifting

Federation was taking Gjoza to court and he had "informed everyone" of his views - the International Weightlifting

Federation (IWF), the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) and the International Testing Agency (

This person [Gjoza] is joke and it's a mess we don’t need in weightlifting, this leadership and people


UIPM fourth test event for obstacle set to be held alongside Junior World Championships

  • Modern Pentathlon

The International Modern Pentathlon Union's (UIPM) fourth test event for the obstacle discipline is set to take place alongside the Junior World Championships in the Polish city of Zielona Góra in October.

at the Paris 2024 Olympics before being dropped thereafter.Modern pentathlon, along with boxing and weightlifting


First modern Olympic bronze medal could auction for £25,000

  • Collecting and Heritage

A bronze medal from the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 is anticipated to auction for as much as £25,000 (€30,000, $29,400).

United States, participated across nine sports.They were athletics, cycling, swimming, gymnastics, weightlifting


Weightlifting stars from Europe and South America to compete for Bahrain at Asian Championships

  • Weightlifting

holder from Colombia have switched nationality and will represent host nation Bahrain at the Asian Weightlifting

give the event "almost a World Championships feel" said Eshaq Ebrahim Eshaq, President of the Bahrain Weightlifting

who has bold plans to promote the sport in the Gulf state.Bahrain, which has never before hosted a weightlifting

the team in October alongside Saif and 20-year-old Zainab Yahya, who competed at the International Weightlifting

Shin from South Korea and Rakhat Bekbolat from Kazakhstan, three of the most exciting young talents in weightlifting

Armenia have an array of elite male talent but because of the cut in Olympic Games athlete quotas for weightlifting


USA Weightlifting appoints Sicchio as chief executive

  • Weightlifting

Matt Sicchio is set to takeover as the chief executive of USA Weightlifting, it has been confirmed.

On behalf of the USA Weightlifting Board of Directors, we are very excited to introduce Matt to our community

," said USA Weightlifting President and Board chair Paula Aranda."

View this post on InstagramA post shared by USA Weightlifting (@usa_weightlifting)Sicchio is set to replace

I am humbled and excited by the opportunity to serve the sport of weightlifting and the USA Weightlifting

I am bullish on the future of weightlifting, from the grassroots to the elite level, and look forward



Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton aiming to sign on with Canadian safe sport office

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton (BCS) is in talks to sign on with Canada's new safe sport office after 90 current and former athletes renewed calls for action to be taken against the claimed culture of abuse.

Press.Of the more than 60 national sport organisations funded by Sport Canada, only volleyball and weightlifting


Colorado Springs named as USA Weightlifting National Championships host for first time

  • Weightlifting

Colorado Springs is due to host the 2023 USA Weightlifting National Championships for the first time

United States Olympic Training Center, was announced as just the second Coloradan city to stage a USA Weightlifting

The USA Weightlifting National Championships Week is an incredible event to have in Olympic City USA,

executive of the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation.View this post on InstagramA post shared by USA Weightlifting


Turkey power to women's volleyball gold as Iran retain men's crown at Konya 2021

  • The 2022 Islamic Solidarity Games – Daily Report from Konya, Turkey

Turkey swept to the women's volleyball title in front of an jubilant home crowd at the Islamic Solidarity Games as Iran tightened their stranglehold on the men's crown here.

Azerbaijan.At the Tuyap Fair Center, Uzbekistan's Tursunoy Jabborova claimed snatch, clean and jerk and overall weightlifting


IOA rewards Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games medallists with prize money

  • OCA

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has given athletes who won medals at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games prize money based on their achievements, after the nation finished fourth on the medals table with 61 podium finishes.

Sindhu, who won her first individual title at the Games.Three gold medals were also won in boxing and weightlifting