the International Weightlifting Federation Grand Prix here and is on course to set a weightlifting record

the sport featured at the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896 no weightlifter has ever won five medals

Indonesia, Irawan’s team-mate Rizki Juniansyah later suffered a surprise defeat at 73kg when he failed with all

grew up.His career highlight, he said, was not a single moment but being at the Olympic Games four times

Antonino Pizzolato from Italy, Polina Guryeva from Turkmenistan and Aremi Fuentes from Mexico - are all

three junior world records at 73kg, missed an attempt to better his own junior world record in the snatch

A record 1,000 athletes from nine countries are set to take part in the Games of the Small States of

 In the previous 18 editions of the GSSE, Malta has won 419 medals, including 73 gold, to rank fifth

on the all-time list."

sporting venues in Malta," former Maltese Olympic Committee (MOC) secretary general Bertie Muscat told the Times

it.Malta's 200-strong delegation to compete in the Games of the Small States of Europe will be part of a record

Our country will meet all expectations, because the work that has been done and which is currently at

Confirmation of North Korea’s presence in the Paris 2024 qualifying programme was described as "the worst thing that has happened in weightlifting for 20 or 30 years" by one of the sport’s most renowned coaches.

completely unfair on athletes, just plain wrong," said the Australian, whose athletes have won more than 100 medals

While most of the world’s top weightlifters trying to qualify for Paris have been tested 10 times or

Kim Un Guk - and three others were banned between August 2014 and April 2015.Despite Oceania’s clean record

, weightlifters in Samoa, Australia and New Zealand have been tested many times since Tokyo and one of

them, Don Opeloge from Samoa, was once tested five times in a three-month period."

North Korean weightlifters, who have not competed or been tested by anti-doping authorities since 2019, will take part in the qualifying programme for Paris 2024.

men and seven women from North Korea are among the entries for the IWF Grand Prix, including world record

holders, IWF World Championships medallists and an Asian Games champion.North Korea has won more medals

of competition since 2019 ©Getty ImagesNorth Korea looks strong enough to finish top of the women’s medals

ahead of Kate Vibert from the United States.The International Testing Agency (ITA), which carries out all

conduct unannounced testing in North Korea".Many athletes from other countries have been tested dozens of times

Thirty years after they were first held on Maltese soil, the 2023 Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE) are set to open in Valletta.

the 1981 International Olympic Committee (IOC) Congress in Baden Baden.It was a gathering at which all

explosion," the Olympic Review reported.A total of 675 athletes took part, an increase of almost three times

only Andorra failed to win gold.The Games returned to Malta 10 years later.The 2003 Games attracted a record

ranks as one of our greatest achievements in these Games," Malta Chef de Mission Pippo Psaila told The Times

Athletics Championships that he made his biggest impact on the global arena.Ioannou set a national record

Chinese weightlifters are top of the Paris 2024 rankings in four of the 10 weight categories, and after the Asian Championships which start in Jinju, Korea, tomorrow they may take that number up to seven or eight.

results were below their best.While the Korean hosts have targeted the non-Olympic classes in search of medals

Erwin and Rizki Juniansyah from Indonesia, one and two in the Paris standings, have opted to chase medals

adding further quality.Rostami is said to be in good form, while Tian Tao, the 96kg clean and jerk world record

holder, has made totals above 400kg five times since he went up in weight after Rio.It will be a surprise

Getty ImagesDespite the fact that the field features Olympic and world champions, two of them world record

Ralph Boston, an Olympic gold medallist who broke Jesse Owens’ long-standing long jump world record,

long jump gold medal at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.Boston went on to complete a full set of Olympic medals

Carl_Lewis) April 30, 2023He remains the only long jumper to achieve such a feat and is second on the all-time

list behind compatriot Carl Lewis, winner of four consecutive Olympic long jump gold medals at Los Angeles

 After breaking Owens’ record, Boston went on to lower the mark a further five times from 1960 until

The greatest long jumper of his time, Boston broke the world record six times and was a member of the

Latvia’s retired six-times world champion Martins Dukurs is extending his coaching role with the British

The 39-year-old, winner of two Olympic silver medals and a record 11 International Bobsleigh and Skeleton

 "I will find time to do my housework, technical things, all the rest."

and Pyeongchang 2018 to help make skeleton Britain's most successful Winter Olympic sport of recent times

, all in the women's event.Amy Williams won at Vancouver 2010, while Lizzy Yarnold enjoyed consecutive

 The men have won three bronze medals - David Carnegie and John Crammond, in 1928 and 1948, when

current world champion Alison Dos Santos is out with injury, but Norway's Olympic champion and world record

Cheptegei, 26, is the world record holder in the 5,000 and 10,000m, and won world 10,000m titles either

Allman won the title, with Perkovic, the London 2012 and Rio 2016 winner, finishing just outside the medals

Last year, however, the Croatian, now 32, took silver in Oregon ahead of Allman before adding a record

Hungary's exceptional thermal water resources, spa culture here dates back two thousand years to Roman times

Two staggering performances made the 43rd London Marathon arguably the greatest seen as Sifan Hassan, on her debut at the distance, outsprinted the event's finest to claim a shock win and then Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum, in only his second marathon, won in 2 hours 2min 27sec, the second fastest time ever.

for Ramadan, looked ready to drop out as, grimacing and clutching her hip, she stopped a number of times

become the third-fastest man in history over the marathon distance, behind Kipchoge’s official world record

ever recorded, in only his second race at the distance ©Getty ImagesThat the targeted women-only world record

World Championships, 5,000 and 10,000m gold and 1500m bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics - and lows - no medals

“I gave it my all but my body just wasn’t responding, and that’s when you know when it’s time to call

For the third time in eight days a young Canadian was on the podium at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Youth Championships - a remarkable achievement for a nation that has never yet staged a national youth championship and never entered a youth athlete in an international competition until 2021.

kilograms took Canada up to eighth place in the final table.The Canadians had been a talking point all

support.Love, who started lifting aged 10, is coached from afar by Aimee Everett, the American who trains four-times

172-310.The result made the numbers posted at 102kg yesterday by Nikita Abdrakhmanov from Kazakhstan all

, and both Egypt and Vietnam had world record breakers among their champions.The success of these teams

Thailand were among countries with a poor doping record praised by IWF President Mohammed Jalood for

In the last few days, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have insisted that the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics was not discussed at this week's Executive Board meeting.

These are wonderful young Americans, they have thrilled our nation and we are all deeply grateful for

involve 1984 Olympic Organising Committee President Peter Ueberroth but he told the Los Angeles Times

The medals will be of inferior worth and the ceremonies a charade."

In fact, the minutes record that "some IOC members were against this concept as it would be undermining

I think for every country it is important that you present the country with all symbols, including the

In Dublin this weekend, Ireland, World Rugby’s number one ranked team, are on the threshold of a Grand Slam for only the fourth time in their history. 

Patrick’s Day, it may well herald the start of a very special Irish sporting year.A century ago it was all

turning point in our fortunes, and that not alone on the football field but in other matters," the Irish Times

Michelle Smith won 400m freestyle and both individual medleys, the first woman to win Olympic gold medals

anti-doping sample, which she denied.It might come as a surprise that Ireland have only won two Olympic gold medals

was first staged in 1987, Ireland have never been beyond the  quarter-finals but consider their record

Brazil narrowly topped the medals table at the Para Swimming World Series event in Lignano Sabbiadoro

The leaders claimed nine gold medals, to pip the host nation by a single title, and owe much of their

butterfly multiclass events.In the latter he set a time of 55.49sec to beat his own S2 classification world record

50m butterfly for Italy.Over the four days of competition, several new world records were set with all

David Kratochvil also broke two records, in the men's S11 50m and 200m backstroke, with respective times

31.58 and 2:28.24.The Netherlands' Chantalle Zijderveld broke the women's 200m breaststroke SB9 world record

With one year to go until next year’s World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Eilidh Doyle, one of Scotland’s most successful athletes, has been named as event ambassador.

capacity of 5,000, and and ticket preregistration is now open online.Doyle won 17 major international medals

I know from competing at the Emirates regularly that the atmosphere will be incredible, so I urge all

victory in the long jump and Mondo Duplantis brought the house down by breaking the world pole vault record

Glasgow has a fine record of hosting great athletics events, from the 2014 Commonwealth Games to the

United Kingdom that hosted the World Athletics Indoor Championships following 2003 and 2018, when both times