The remarkable strength in depth of Chinese weightlifting was evident at the women’s National Championships

interview in Iran last week, Rostami said there had been "a 100 per cent lack of work" by the Iranian Weightlifting

because of past doping violations, would not win any medals this time.Rostami, 29, said: "I used to love weightlifting

under control and few local confirmed cases for months in China" said a statement from the Chinese Weightlifting

Lidia Valentin of Spain, who has won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Olympic Games, is moving up to a new weight in an attempt to qualify for Tokyo 2020.

good start on Tuesday.After this week only the African Championships in Kenya, and the International Weightlifting

this week from Antonio Urso, who was an IWF Board member for many years and president of the European Weightlifting

Federation (EWF) until last month.Tom Goegebuer, now President of the Belgian Weightlifting Federation

49kg category, said Urso.He suggested that Sterckx’s coach Tom Goegebuer, President of the Belgian Weightlifting

The Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) has welcomed the introduction of a travel bubble with New Zealand, which it says will significantly boost its athletes.

every Summer Olympics since Seoul 1988.Nine athletes in athletics, canoeing, sailing, swimming and weightlifting

The Weightlifting Federation of Africa (WFA) has been accused of ignoring athlete safety after it moved

said Mona De Lacey, the African representative on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Athletes

USA Weightlifting (USAW) has announced plans to set up a training base in Hawaii to give its athletes

months or so have been very hard on our athletes and their teams and with Tokyo now approaching, USA Weightlifting

before they leave for Tokyo.USAW anticipates being in Hawaii from early July through to August 4, when weightlifting

The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has now sent the last of 20 containers of sports equipment and COVID-19 protection materials, totalling more than 20 tonnes in weight, to Japan ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Games' scheduled opening on July 23.

includes boats and dinghies for the sailing competition, tatamis for combat sports, punching bags and weightlifting

The vaccine deal announced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) this week provides yet another example of how desperate the organisation is for Tokyo 2020 to go ahead.

concluded.This also comes with the caveat that sports who use rankings to determine their quota places, such as weightlifting

The "unprofessional" Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has been severely

increased the risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus, said Zhou Jinqiang, President of the Chinese Weightlifting

athlete-centred and that the sport’s leaders were acting in their own interests to such an extent that "weightlifting

the Asian Championships in Tashkent, a journey the CWA claimed was "entirely unnecessary" ©Chinese Weightlifting

If no changes are made, weightlifting is facing a big risk of being expelled from the Olympic Games."

two weeks before the European Championships in Moscow, Zhou and Jean-Paul Bulgaridhes of the French Weightlifting

Laurel Hubbard, the transgender weightlifter from New Zealand, has been effectively guaranteed a place at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after the approval of an amended qualifying system by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

adoption of new qualification rules but the amendments, revealed in a letter from the International Weightlifting

three of those who finished ahead of her will not be competing in Tokyo.Hubbard’s presence in women’s weightlifting

The Oceania Weightlifting Federation (OWF) is refusing a demand from its own members for elections to

Extraordinary Congress is not the same as an Annual Congress".Jerry Wallwork, President of the Samoa Weightlifting

transparently and in accordance with the Constitution," Coffa said.Marcus Stephen, left, is the Oceania Weightlifting

Tuvalu, Cook Islands, American Samoa and Guam.On Monday (May 3) Della Shaw-Elder, President of the Weightlifting

provided in the formal notice for the Extraordinary Congress", wrote Della Shaw-Elder earlier this week ©Weightlifting

points of contention among nations who have sent feedback on a draft Constitution to the International Weightlifting

itself require a two-thirds majority to be passed.Mike Irani, the IWF Interim President who admits that weightlifting

athletes in all areas of governance, the United States calls for radical changes in this regard.USA Weightlifting

should sit only on the Board and their own Athletes' Commission.Horst Sayler, President of the Swaziland Weightlifting

which nations should be held responsible for multiple doping violations by their athletes.The Russian Weightlifting

Chinese women’s super-heavyweight, had a sweep of world records on her way to victory at the Asian Weightlifting

has been opened by the Armenian authorities against Simon Martirosyan, one of the favourites to win a weightlifting

capital.The incident happened within two days of Martirosyan’s return to Armenia from the recent European Weightlifting

athletes set world records and a young Iranian had a memorable victory on the penultimate day of the Asian Weightlifting

Tributes have been paid to former President of the Mongolian National Olympic Committee (MNOC) and Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Modernisation Commission member Demchigjav Zagdsuren, who has died from a serious illness at the age of 63.

Member of East Asian Olympic Committees, and lead the Mongolian Sports Medicine Federation, Mongolian Weightlifting