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Fares Elbakh of Qatar won the country's first ever Olympic gold medal in the men's 96kg weightlifting

Meso Hassona became Qatar’s first ever Olympic gold medallist when he finished well clear of his rivals in the men’s 96 kilograms category at the Tokyo International Forum.

Lu Xiaojun cemented his place among the all-time greats of weightlifting in another sensational session

Olympic podium for a second time at the age of 37.That made him the oldest gold medallist in Olympic weightlifting

lift and ended with the bronze medal, and the outstanding Zacarias Bonnat.Bonnat became the first ever weightlifting

disqualified from Rio by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).Zacarias Bonnat became the first ever weightlifting

, eight men were separated by only 5kg – the tightest contest so far in an outstanding programme of weightlifting

Karate legend Antonio Diaz served as flagbearer at the Opening Ceremony for his country Venezuela as the sport debuted at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Julio Mayora’s silver in the men’s 73-kilograms weightlifting is Venezuela’s only medal so far at Tokyo

International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical and scientific director Richard Budgett has acknowledged current guidelines around transgender athletes are no longer fit for purpose, with the organisation set to publish an updated framework to guide International Federations in devising their own rules.

transgender athletes in elite sport has been pushed into the spotlight in recent months, with New Zealand weightlifting

Egypt’s taekwondo medallists at Tokyo 2020 Hedaya Malak and Seif Eissa have been honoured by the Egyptian Olympic Committee.

taekwondo Egypt’s joint-third most successful Olympic sport historically, tied with boxing and behind weightlifting

U SPORTS, the governing body for university sport in Canada, has celebrated four of its former International University Sports Federation (FISU) champions winning medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

and a Commonwealth Games champion from Gold Coast 2018.She became the second woman to win an Olympic weightlifting

The roll-call of stars at the Tokyo International Forum, venue for weightlifting at these Olympic Games

 The athletes have done all they can to show the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that weightlifting

He had the support of Richard McLaren, author of the corruption report, and has reformed weightlifting

And his experience of reforming the governance and culture of weightlifting in Russia could be invaluable

Certainly not the athletes, not the real heroes of Tokyo 2020.All of which means weightlifting may well

He said this week: "Weightlifting without doping is so interesting.

A "made-up" story involving weightlifters from China and India has been so widely reported throughout Asia that it has led to claims of athletes from three nations being involved in medal reallocations.

been no developments from the routine anti-doping procedures carried out after the 49kg, the first weightlifting

at a time when tensions between India and China are high ©Getty ImagesAn official from the Chinese Weightlifting

Association described the report as "made-up".India, for whom Mirabai was a first weightlifting medallist

the test".There was no test, but the Indonesian website Tempo managed to persuade an Indonesian Weightlifting

After winning a silver medal at Tokyo 2020, India's Mirabai Chanu is hungry for more success in 2022 and targeting the Asian Games.

Olympic record, lifting a total of 210kg.She now has her sights set on becoming India's first-ever weightlifting

China's silver medal is India's best Olympic result in weightlifting, and only the country's second medal.The

Olympics, I am sure there will be another four girls who will be competing on the big stage from India in weightlifting

Games, respectively.In contrast to the Olympics and Asian Games, India is traditionally one of the best weightlifting

In the first half of the weightlifting programme at Tokyo 2020 Asia has cleaned up, winning 16 of the

his final lift to claim bronze in the men's 67 kilograms on Sunday (July 25) he became Italy’s first weightlifting

Bordignon, at the age of 34, went one better with a silver in the women’s 64kg.Those two medals put weightlifting

Federation President Antonio Urso, centre back, with Italy's weightlifting team for Tokyo 2020 ©Facebook

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This is a new era for weightlifting in Italy, and I hope Italy will be a leader of change."

Shi Zhiyong was in imperious form as he won his second successive Olympic weightlifting gold medal, and

Abdullah.Abdullah finished 20th in his first Olympic qualifying competition, the 2018 International Weightlifting

Maude Charron went into weightlifting "just for fun", finds training a bit boring, and had never made

The first time I ever saw weightlifting on television was at Rio 2016," she said."

In some ways I didn’t choose to do weightlifting, but weightlifting chose me - and when it did I really

It could transform our sport," said Craig Walker, President of the Canadian Weightlifting Federation.Walker

, one of the leading supporters of reform within weightlifting, which is in danger of losing its Olympic

Maude Charron planned to joined the police by now, but weightlifting glory was in store instead ©Getty

Maude Charron became the first Canadian woman to stand on top of the Olympic weightlifting podium when

the Cirque de Soleil school in acrobatics, was a talented gymnast, and eventually found her way into weightlifting

of her were disqualified for doping.Sarah Davies of Britain had a chance to win her nation’s first weightlifting

Commonwealth Games gold medallist, described it as "the most open category in the history of women’s weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has launched a new website, coinciding with the Tokyo

are very pleased to be able to make our own contribution to the way people will interact online with weightlifting

Weightlifting is universally accessible and universally useful, helping people to build and maintain

In order to best promote weightlifting, we must take full advantage of the incredible opportunity that

The IWF added that it will have a team on the ground in Tokyo to report on the weightlifting competition

IOC reserves all rights concerning its relations with the IWF in the future, including the place of weightlifting