Tamás Aján has today been re-elected for a fifth term as President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after defeating main rival Antonio Urso in the vote here.

Weightlifters who have been disqualified from podium positions at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games for testing positive could damage their countries’ future prospects if they fail to return the medals as part of the sport's new anti-doping policy.

The Italian candidate Antonio Urso has made one last push in his campaign to be elected President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) by setting out his plans for a new system of Olympic qualification, based on individual rather than national performance.

From the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, the view is the same: weightlifting needs unity more than it needs anything else.

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamas Ajan, the Hungarian who has been in key roles at the governing body for more than 40 years, says he still has the energy and vitality to take the sport through a challenging period of change over the next four years.

Two of the men aiming to unseat the most powerful figure in world weightlifting want the sport’s governing body to give control of its anti-doping programme to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Tamás Aján is facing six challengers for the Presidency of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after the governing body revealed the list of candidates.

The President of Weightlifting Ireland, Colin Buckley, visited the Hungarian capital of Budapest to hold talks with International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamás Aján.  

Europe’s highest-ranking weightlifting administrator says the sport needs to make fundamental changes to its culture, its rules and the way competitions are presented.

Back in December, I wrote a blog in the aftermath of the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston commending the sport’s world governing body’s decision to ban 11 Bulgarian weightlifters from competing at Rio 2016 after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol during a training camp for last year’s European Championships in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.

Willian Ozuna has been re-elected for a second four-year term as President of the Pan-American Weightlifting Federation (PAWF) at its Congress in Santo Dominigo.

Former President of Hungary and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Pál Schmitt has been appointed as the President of the Budapest 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games Bid Committee.

Warm and respectful greetings to all members of the world’s weightlifting family: athletes, coaches, Federation officials, the media and the all-important fans of weightlifting.

USA Weightlifting chief executive Michael Massik said last month that the ultimate aim of the National Governing Body in preparing for the recent International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Houston was to make them the "most memorable" of all time.

A World Weightlifting Championships 2015 delegation has today taken part in the 66th annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in downtown Houston.