By Daniel Etchells in Pattaya
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China's Jiang Huihua broke the women's 49 kilograms total world record today to triumph at the 2019 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here.
Poupak Basami has made history here today by becoming the first Iranian woman to compete at an International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships.
By Daniel Etchells in Pattaya
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North Korea's Om Yun Chol broke the men's 55 kilograms clean and jerk and total world records, on his way to retaining his three gold medals on the opening day of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here.
By Daniel Etchells in Pattaya
The Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association (TAWA) will find out next week if it can send its athletes to the 2019 Southeast Asian Games in The Philippines, despite a self-imposed exile from its home World Championships here for multiple doping offences.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Anti-Doping Commission noted a decline in the number of ineligible athletes at the sport’s events as the world governing body held its Congress here today.
The 2019 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships are due to begin here in Pattaya tomorrow, with Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze and Russia's Tatiana Kashirina among the athletes looking to make their mark.
Egypt will not be represented at the 2019 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here in Pattaya following the suspension of the country's national federation.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has today selected Chinese city Chongqing as the host of its 2022 World Championships.
When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) put weightlifting's place on the Games schedule under threat on June 9, 2017, there were many within the sport who feared the worst, with good reason.
The head of the Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) has accused the sport's governing body of being unfair, unjust and unconstitutional in its anti-doping policies, and describes a new independent sanctions panel as "a Medieval Inquisition".
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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