Olympic cycling gold medallist Elinor Barker has been named in Wales’ squad for this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham just months after giving birth to her first child.

across athletics, boxing, cycling, diving, lawn bowls, squash, swimming, table tennis, judo, triathlon, weightlifting

Wales at Birmingham 2022.Line-ups for table tennis, Para table tennis, Para swimming, Para lawn bowls, weightlifting

Ghana's Commonwealth Games Association Ben Nunoo Mensah has targeted athletics, boxing, swimming, and weightlifting

The Nigerian Government has ordered that all of the country's athletes be drugs tested before they depart for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, which are due to start in Birmingham next month, in a bid to avoid a repeat of the scandal at last year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.  

debut at Auckland 1950.Nigeria is set to take approximately 100 athletes in judo, athletics, boxing, weightlifting

Lasha Talakhadze duly extended his series of victories at the European Weightlifting Championships, which

stretches back to 2016, but one of the most remarkable runs in weightlifting history came to an end

jerk of 245kg made it 51.Then he went up to 253kg and, for the first time since the 2018 International Weightlifting

glory but failed, finishing 174-210-384.Bulgaria's David Fischerov won the 102kg gold at the European Weightlifting

Emily Campbell underlined her position as the most-successful British weightlifter for decades when she won a second straight continental title at the European Championships in Tirana, Albania.

Games in Birmingham this summer, has now won two European titles, Olympic silver and an International Weightlifting

237kg, with the Georgian Anastasiia Hotfrid third on 235kg.Stian Grimseth, President of the Norwegian Weightlifting

Olympic Committee.Grimseth said Koanda’s landmark performance was "a massive inspiration for Norwegian weightlifting

Antonino Pizzolato sent a message to the rest of the weightlifting world with a phenomenal world-record

Urso, who started a highly-successful development programme in his role as President of the Italian Weightlifting

After 100 years, Italian weightlifting has returned overwhelmingly not only to win continental and world

today we have been able to write a page of history for our nation and for the whole world of Olympic weightlifting

His last comment was directed at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), from which he resigned

New Zealand is not attending this month's Pacific Mini Games in Saipan because the country is focussing on the Commonwealth Games, it has been claimed.

Mingoue told the Saipan Tribune.New Zealand were invited to compete in athletics, beach volleyball and weightlifting

has taken up its offer to compete, however.They will send 14 athletes in track and field and five in weightlifting

I'm confused: I was just about getting used to the received wisdom that the building of new, permanent Olympic-related sports infrastructure was nearly always Bad with a capital B when two things contrive to bring my old doubts rushing back to the surface.

to select an imaginary facility at random, let us say a lavish, state-of-the-art, hugely expensive weightlifting

At the 2017 World Athletics Championships, Botswana's Isaac Makwala was forced to run a solo 200 metres in front of a packed crowd at a wet London Stadium.

player.Botswana is sending 26 athletes to Birmingham 2022, with boxing, cycling, judo, swimming, squash and weightlifting

Bulgaria went straight to the top of the medals table on the opening weekend of the European Weightlifting

Despite a long-running internal political dispute that kept Bulgaria out of the recent International Weightlifting

placed to finish top of the medals table in Albania.Arif Majed, the new President of the Bulgarian Weightlifting

Josue Brachi of Spain, the snatch winner.Evagjelia Veli won the women's 55kg category at the European Weightlifting

international competitions, will be hoping to win her first senior title this weekend at the European Weightlifting

Belgium has ever had, was rated the top female lifter across all weight categories at the International Weightlifting

She had started in gymnastics aged five and, when she was 13, she was at a training camp at which a weightlifting

I had just turned 13 and within a year I had changed to weightlifting after nine years in gymnastics.

Because Sterckx was still at school and still doing gymnastics for her first year in weightlifting, time

Britain's Emily Campbell is among the athletes with the highest entry totals for the European Weightlifting

Eleven candidates have been cleared to stand for the Presidency of the International Weightlifting Federation

the situation and the outcomes will be taken into account in its review for potential inclusion of weightlifting

current Executive Board members of the IWF, and two are former Board members who left in 2020 when weightlifting

ineligible, Maxim Agapitov from Russia, wins an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).British Weightlifting

McConnell said that the electoral congress is "a critical opportunity for real change and new culture" in weightlifting

Lifting and is not standing.The other Presidential candidates are Jinqiang Zhou, President of the Chinese Weightlifting

Egypt’s weightlifters will be hoping for leniency when a sanctions panel decides whether or not to ban their federation for a second time.

International Testing Agency (ITA), which carries out all anti-doping procedures for the International Weightlifting

suspensions for doping violations ©Getty ImagesLast December, there was regime change at the Egyptian Weightlifting

mistakes".The ITA did not give a timelines but said "the consequences to be imposed on the Egyptian Weightlifting

Vietnam's Phạm Thị Hồng Thanh set a Southeast Asian Games record to claim weightlifting gold in front

local weightlifter achieved a Games-record total of 230kg overall to claim gold, Vietnam’s third in weightlifting

securing bronze on 216kg.Indonesia’s Rahmat Erwin Abdullah earned a dominant victory in the men's 73kg weightlifting

Organisers of the Pacific Mini Games on the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI) have issued a final call for volunteers.

sports on the programme - baseball, badminton, golf, triathlon, athletics, beach volleyball, tennis, weightlifting