Chinese Taipei's former weightlifting world record holder Lin Tzu-chi has been banned for eight years after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) won an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, it was announced today.
International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamás Aján has hailed the 2018 IWF World Championships as a milestone edition of the flagship event and claims they have left the vast majority of those involved in no doubt that the sport cannot continue to exist if its doping problem is not tackled effectively.
Turkmenistan appointed a suspended doper as a national coach to help them prepare their team for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships, which ended yesterday in Ashgabat, the Turkmen capital.
Russia’s Tatiana Kashirina won an epic battle with China’s Meng Suping to claim a clean sweep of the women’s over-87 kilograms gold medals on the final day of the 2018 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here in Turkmenistan’s capital.
International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) head Tamás Aján has met with Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow on the sidelines of the 2018 IWF World Championships here in Ashgabat.
By Daniel Etchells at the Ashgabat Olympic Complex's Martial Arts Arena
Armenia's Simon Martirosyan claimed his first-ever global title after powering to victory in the men's 109 kilograms category on the penultimate day of the 2018 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here in Turkmenistan's capital.
By Daniel Etchells at the Ashgabat Olympic Complex's Martial Arts Arena
Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended his congratulations to national athlete Artem Okulov for winning two gold medals at the 2018 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here in Turkmenistan's capital.
Iran’s Ali Hashemi and Spain’s Lidia Valentín replicated their gold medal-winning performances from last year by claiming the men’s 102 kilograms and women’s 81kg overall titles on day eight of the 2018 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here in Turkmenistan’s capital.
Iran’s Saeid Mohammadpour has retrospectively received the gold medal from the notorious men’s 94 kilograms weightlifting event at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
By Daniel Etchells at the Ashgabat Olympic Complex's Martial Arts Arena
Iran's Olympic gold medallist Sohrab Moradi broke world standards in the men's 96 kilograms snatch, clean and jerk and total events to claim a clean sweep of titles on day seven of the 2018 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here in Turkmenistan’s capital.
Four weightlifters are among seven Russian athletes to have been given four-year bans for violating the country’s anti-doping rules.
By Daniel Etchells at the Ashgabat Olympic Complex's Martial Arts Arena
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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