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World Para Powerlifting announces ZKC as new supplier of sports equipment

  • Powerlifting News

World Para Powerlifting has announced Chinese based company ZKC as its new supplier of sports equipment.

ZKC was an official weightlifting equipment supplier at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and is set to perform

the same role at the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Games.It specialises in designing and manufacturing weightlifting

executive Zhang Zhiguo said of the arrangement: "Our company has been an approved supplier of major weightlifting


WADA strips "aggregated" North American data from annual testing report

  • Latest

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has decided to strip so-called "aggregated data" out of its annual testing figures report, reducing the number of samples included by more than 20 per cent, based on 2018 figures.

than 1.8 per cent in 2019, with only six such sports – boxing, cycling, equestrianism, rugby union, weightlifting


Colombia faces outright ban from Tokyo 2020 weightlifting after trio suspended

  • Weightlifting

Colombia's chances of sending a weightlifting team to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are hanging by a thread

The strongest weightlifting nation in Latin America was planning to send the maximum team of eight, all

to four years for having three or more doping violations in a calendar year.Under the International Weightlifting

Federation's (IWF) anti-doping rules the Colombian Weightlifting Federation (CWF) could also be fined

the federation was fighting against doping, and said there would be an analysis of "the situation of weightlifting



Sperl replaces Baumgartner as President of German Weightlifting Federation

  • Weightlifting

Florian Sperl has been unanimously elected as President of the German Weightlifting Federation, succeeding

youth leader while Simon Brandhuber has been elected as the athlete representative.Germany has won 20 weightlifting

golds, seven silvers and seven bronzes.Matthias Steiner was the last German to win an Olympic gold in weightlifting


Russia’s top weightlifter Kashirina suspended for suspected doping

  • Weightlifting

Russia’s biggest hope for an Olympic medal in weightlifting has been suspended for a suspected doping

unable to compete at Rio 2016, where she would have been favourite, because Russia was banned from weightlifting

official state news agency, which reported news of the suspension.Maxim Agapitov, President of the Russian Weightlifting


Alihosseini to coach Iran at next year’s IWF Junior World Championships

  • Weightlifting

silver medallist Saeid Alihosseini is set to lead Iran's team in next year’s delayed International Weightlifting

clenbuterol.Shortly after his return to competitive action, Alihosseini claimed two silver medals at the 2017 World Weightlifting

extension to Olympic qualifying which is due to end on April 30.Maryam Monazami, vice-president of the Iran Weightlifting



No cuts for British sport at Tokyo 2020 but budgets tightened for Paris 2024

  • Tokyo 2020

UK Sport has announced that the sports already funded for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will not face budget cuts in the run-up to the Games in 2021 as the organisation also released its provisional budgets for Paris 2024.

Basketball, sport climbing, fencing, skateboarding, surfing, table tennis and weightlifting will be part


IWF wants another Olympic qualifying extension after Junior World Championships postponed

  • Weightlifting

Weightlifting has lost one of its most important Olympic qualifying events because of yet another coronavirus-related

It means the sport’s governing body, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will ask for a

 Both are 20, at the upper end of the age limit.USA Weightlifting (USAW), meanwhile, has adopted

That statement is: "The mission of USA Weightlifting shall be to support United States athletes in achieving

Olympic and World competition and to support, promote, and educate a diverse and inclusive community of weightlifting




Weightlifting doping violations to be punished with team reductions for Birmingham 2022

  • Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games Federation has introduced quota-reduction penalties in weightlifting for the first

recent years are India, Malaysia and Nigeria.Canada is currently the strongest Commonwealth nation in weightlifting

64kg, Rachel Leblanc-Bazinet at 55kg and Tali Darsigny at 59kg.Craig Walker, president of the Canadian Weightlifting

These are systemic issues in weightlifting."

fewer than the 196 for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Games, and 50 per cent up on Paris 2024, for which weightlifting