Kenya - July 2022Kenya has long dominated distance running at the Commonwealth Games but will arrive at Birmingham 2022 with a point to prove.

volleyball, boxing, cycling, hockey, judo, lawn bowls, powerlifting, rugby sevens, squash, swimming, weightlifting

treasurer of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) and the secretary general of the country's weightlifting

Ghana - June 2022Ghana is poised to take a record-breaking contingent to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

represent the African nation, in athletics, badminton, beach volleyball, boxing, judo, triathlon, squash, weightlifting

sports where they may be able to reach the Birmingham podium, while there are also hopes in swimming and weightlifting

I'm sure we can do something in weightlifting."Those are the areas normally we expect medals from."

Cameroon - March 2022There are not many Commonwealth Games countries where French is the first language.

hoping to take around 50 athletes in athletics, Para-athletics, badminton, boxing, judo, swimming, weightlifting

 "You can see that from our performance in weightlifting."

 "Powerlifting, wrestling, weightlifting - these four disciplines we are looking forward to having

Cameroon won nine gold medals in weightlifting at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games ©Getty ImagesAyuketang

Botswana - May 2022At 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

Malta - November 2021For Charlene Attard, Malta's Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022, next year's Commonwealth Games cannot come soon enough.

badminton, lawn bowls and squash - while there is also the chance of appearing in gymnastics, judo, weightlifting

North Korea’s withdrawal from the upcoming Olympics has echoes of the 1964 Games in Tokyo although the reasons behind it are very different.

the world - so their absence from #Tokyo2020 will have a profound impact https://t.co/QhExhyXmhw #Weightlifting

As I made my way through the weightlifting ranks, competing as a young athlete in a sport tainted by

Weightlifting was a sport I personally had fallen in love with, and so the pull of competing at the highest

 While I understood those athletes’ decisions, for me I felt the wonderful aspects of weightlifting

competitors’ Salt Lake City 2002 doping sanctions, I was to be the belated beneficiary of doping cases in weightlifting

 Just as Canada had done its own soul searching back then, so weightlifting (and indeed other sports

of this is possible if the IWF opts for a reformist candidate.And with a new, reformist Presidency, weightlifting

The European Weightlifting Championships ended on a high note in Moscow, where the incomparable Lasha

Another GB European Weightlifting Champion! ? ? Wait 26 years for 1 & 2 come at once. ???

European contender for Tokyo 2020.Martina Hrašnová is hoping to compete in athletics at Tokyo 2020, not weightlifting

sport.Hrašnová, the oldest lifter in an A Group in Moscow, is a hammer thrower who has shown an aptitude for weightlifting

in training.She is coached by Rudolf Lukac, twice an Olympian in weightlifting who also specialises

it will be Hrašnová's fourth straight Olympic Games appearance.In her first attempt at international weightlifting

for Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020, suffered a shock defeat in the men’s 109 kilograms at the European Weightlifting

performance in the women’s super-heavyweights she could help Britain to its best performance at the European Weightlifting

Metcalfe, chief executive of British Weight Lifting (BWL), was "shocked and devastated" to learn that weightlifting

when she finished 10th in the 69kg category in Rio, and she won silver medals at the International Weightlifting

It had been built pretty much on weightlifting, and it made me question my place in the sport."

There were times when I thought about not doing weightlifting any more, pulling myself out of Olympic

after giving up her job to focus on qualifying for Tokyo.Emily Godley won Britain a first European weightlifting

Anton Pliesnoi underlined his status as one of Europe’s top hopes for an Olympic weightlifting medal

The Samoa Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (SASNOC) has partnered with the National Bank of Samoa (NBS) to support elite athletes' preparations for multi-sport events such as the Olympic Games.

has a men's laser sailing spot.Vaipava Ioane and Don Opeloge are also expected to take part in the weightlifting

Iryna Dekha of Ukraine took advantage of the absence of Lidia Valentin to win gold at the European Weightlifting

Posted by Федерація важкої атлетики України/Ukrainian weightlifting federation on Thursday, 8 April 2021Dekha

Valentin will need to do as the amended qualifying rules have yet to be announced by the International Weightlifting

Britain won its first continental weightlifting title since 1995 and a Bulgarian teenager set four world

younger than Pizzolato and still young enough to compete as a youth for another year.Posted by Bulgaria Weightlifting

remarkable performances by a teenager in years.Karlos Nasar, centre, is the rising star of Bulgarian weightlifting

and producing outstanding results at the tender age of 16 ©Bulgarian Weightlifting FederationHis efforts

left Bulgaria, for so long a "has-been" in weightlifting after years of glory late last century, top

♂️#weightlifting #sollevamentopesi @federpesistica pic.twitter.com/gMA9gpt4Qm— CONI (@Coninews) April

Tributes have been paid to Moldovan Kayak-Canoe Federation President Iacob Buhna who has died after contracting coronavirus.

later in his native village of Carpineni.According to Pro TV Chișinău, judo coach Vasile Colta and weightlifting