The Pan American Weightlifting Federation (PAWF) has amended its constitution to make athletes a required

Santiago alongside the ongoing Pan American Games.Mohammed Jalood, the President of the International Weightlifting

Colombia topped the weightlifting medals table at the Pan American Games at Santiago in Chile, where

Reeves set two junior world records at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships

place.Angie Palacios from Ecuador declined her final attempt having already won at 71kg on 118-135-253.Weightlifting

taekwondo title ©Getty ImagesGold medallist Rafael Cerro roars while competing in the men's over-102kg weightlifting

modern pentathlon crown with riding still a part of the event ©Getty ImagesJhonatan Rivas celebrates weightlifting

 British Weight Lifting has led tributes to long serving official David Webster, who has died at the age of 95.

Strength League and later studied for his degree in physical education.Webster became chairman of Scottish weightlifting

In the realm of weightlifting, David Webster's contributions were immeasurable."

“He was a real inspiration to all who met him and a driving force in the worlds of weightlifting, bodybuilding

host of the inaugural United Kingdom Strongest Man competition in 2004.A prolific author, he promoted weightlifting

1976 produced The Iron Men, an illustrated history of the sport in conjunction with the International Weightlifting

Guilherme Santos of Brazil and Canada's Maggie MacNeil each won their third Pan American Games gold medals at Santiago 2023 as swimming action continued.

taekwondo at the Contact Sports Center, and Colombia's Jhonatan Rivas was the victor in the men's 102kg weightlifting

The United States enjoyed a glorious day three at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago by winning 21 gold medals in nine sports.

Gorman-Shore won the women's over-67 kilograms division at the Contact Sports Center, and there was weightlifting

World Karate Federation (WKF) President Antonio Espinós has hit out at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) here for failing to make a "significant reshuffle" to the Olympic sports after karate missed out on a place at Los Angeles 2028.

Last week, they came back and picked weightlifting and modern pentathlon again," said Espinós."

The world's longest rowing boats have made their debut in the mixed eight category at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.

gymnastics, dressage, equestrian, jumping, wrestling, athletics, boxing, fencing, football, shooting, and weightlifting

for Mexico in poomsae taekwondo ©Getty ImagesKeydomar Vallenilla of Venezuela gestures while winning weightlifting

Olympic gold medallist Maggie MacNeil won gold and bronze and set a Pan American Games record on the second day of swimming finals at Santiago 2023.

women's under-57kg title and the men's under-80kg gold went to American Carl Nickolas.In the women's 59kg weightlifting

world champion Pyrros Dimas has been chosen as chair of a new Executive Board of the Mediterranean Weightlifting

the position at the governing body's Electoral Congress which was held alongside the Mediterranean Weightlifting

Our goal is to make weightlifting bigger, more beautiful, and to elevate it to the position it rightfully

deserves," said Dimas.Representatives of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) were also

were also in Sliema on behalf of the organisation.They are also respectively President of the African Weightlifting

Federation and European Weightlifting Federation.Greece's Dimas is the world's most decorated Olympic

Paige Madden broke the Pan American Games record to win women’s 400 metres freestyle gold as the United States claimed four swimming titles on the opening day of competition at Santiago 2023.

role in helping the United States win artistic gymnastics men's team all-around gold ©Getty ImagesIn weightlifting

cycling, diving, artistic gymnastics, shooting, skateboarding, sport climbing, swimming, taekwondo and weightlifting

With a rueful chuckle, Alex Gough, chief executive of the Professional Squash Association (PSA), admitted that in the wake of the sport’s historic inclusion on the Olympic programme at Los Angeles 2028 he was put in mind of the celebrated comment by late United States tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis.

But what happened then was they took weightlifting out and put it back in, and that was almost the end

And then when we tried for the Tokyo 2020 Games we had the situation where weightlifting was taken out

Chile paid tribute to its oldest Pan American Games medallist and first Olympic champions in a Santiago 2023 Opening Ceremony at the National Stadium which also remembered one of the darkest times in the nation’s history.

Salazar took part on behalf of the coaches and athletes' entourage and officials Italo Barratini from weightlifting