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USA Boxing announces long-term partnership with Nike

  • Boxing

USA Boxing has recently announced a long-term strategic partnership deal with one of the world's largest athletic apparel company Nike Boxing and its global distributor Athlete Performance Solutions (APS).

Solutions is the global official distributor for Nike in several sports including  boxing, wrestling, weightlifting


Italy continues recruitment drive for bobsleigh and skeleton athletes

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

An Italian Winter Sports Federation recruitment campaign for bobsleigh and skeleton teams is set to continue at a test event on Saturday (April 30).

tests will be conducted, with a simulator trolley used.Organisers have said athletes from athletics and weightlifting


FASANOC names team for Pacific Mini Games in Saipan

  • ONOC

The Fiji Association of Sport and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) has announced a team of over 60 athletes for the upcoming Pacific Mini Games in Saipan.

nine sports contested at the Games.The nation's athletics, baseball, golf, triathlon, tennis, Va’a and weightlifting


Matytsin hopeful Russia will avoid Paris 2024 ban despite international sporting exile

  • Paris 2024

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has expressed hope the nation will not be banned from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with the nation largely blocked from international sport due to the invasion of Ukraine.

beginning a two-year qualification cycle for the Games.The qualification period will also begin in weightlifting


Colombia awarded weightlifting World Championships - 10 months after facing ban

  • Weightlifting

Colombia has been selected as host nation for the 2022 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World

It is a remarkable turnaround for the Colombian Weightlifting Federation, whose President William Peña

This is recognition of a country that transforms lives through weightlifting."

all over our country, we take children from drug-trafficking and crime groups and we link them to weightlifting

Colombia has provided a consistent stream of strong weightlifting champions through the years and it

Weightlifting has changed the lives of many Colombians and this event will prove to be significant in





Olympic champions Meso and Stevens attend celebratory event at IWF headquarters

  • Weightlifting

Hassona and Yazmin Zammit Stevens have attended a celebratory event organised by the International Weightlifting

move here to Lausanne as it also marks a move to a new and bright future for the IWF and for global weightlifting

Hassona and Stevens marked the commemorative mood by winning the first mixed gender IWF street weightlifting


IOA demands addition of archery, shooting and wrestling at Victoria 2026

  • Victoria 2026

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has issued a letter to the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) demanding the inclusion of archery, shooting and wrestling at the 2026 event in Australian state Victoria.

cycling, gymnastics, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, squash, table tennis, triathlon and weightlifting


WKF introduces stakeholders to LA28 Commission at meeting on Olympic future

  • Karate

The World Karate Federation (WKF) has held a videoconference with key stakeholders where an LA28 Commission was introduced and it was unanimously agreed to continue lobbying to be included as an additional sport on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games programme.

provisional programme for the Los Angeles 2028 Games.This does not include boxing, modern pentathlon or weightlifting


Ambassadors Meso and Stevens take honours at IWF Street Weightlifting contest

  • Weightlifting

Olympic champion Meso Hassona and Malta’s Yazmin Zammit Stevens celebrated their enhanced status in weightlifting

The pair were both made Athlete Ambassadors by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) 10 days

ago and they competed in the first IWF Street Weightlifting Competition as "Team Ambassador".A bad weather

German pair, edged into second place overall with 810.9 Robi points to the Germans' 807.3.The Street Weightlifting

It marks a move to a new and bright future for the IWF and for global weightlifting," said Mike Irani


Olympic champion Meso joins in as weightlifting takes to the streets

  • Weightlifting

host of European athletes will be on the streets in the "Olympic capital" of Lausanne on Saturday as weightlifting

Changing the way weightlifting is presented and making it more accessible to a mainstream audience have

United States.The need for innovation in the 21st century was outlined to members of the International Weightlifting

’s business development specialist.Exhenry is one of the driving forces behind the first IWF Street Weightlifting

won the 96kg in Tokyo last year, is "thrilled and honoured to contribute back to the sport and the weightlifting

I am looking forward to being among the best in weightlifting in this unique event, where we all come


Victoria 2026 organisers can "learn a lot" from Birmingham 2022, says Reid

  • Birmingham 2022

Birmingham 2022 chief executive Ian Reid believes organisers of the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Victoria can "learn a lot" from his team running proceedings in the English city this year.

cycling, gymnastics, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, squash, table tennis, triathlon and weightlifting


Pakistan's Commonwealth Games gold-medal favourite weightlifter fails doping test

  • Weightlifting

Talha Talib, Pakistan’s best weightlifter in decades and first-ever medallist at the International Weightlifting

banned substances, and Talib was one of them.If the news is confirmed, Pakistan could be suspended from weightlifting

for multiple violations within a year.Talib is reported to have written to the Pakistan Weightlifting

positive sample.Talib, who has been supported throughout his career by the President of the Pakistan Weightlifting