Vietnam enjoyed a mixed opening day of weightlifting competition here at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games as defeat for one favourite was followed by victory for another.
Pradeep Singh provided a fitting conclusion to India's dominance on the final day of action at the 2017 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Gold Coast.
Chinese weightlifters showed why they are the dominant force in the sport with a number of phenomenal performances at the National Games of China, which ended in Tianjin today.
India's Seema led yet another emphatic day for her country at the 2017 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Gold Coast with two medals.
The International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) Sport Programme Commission (SPC) has met for the first time in Budapest this week.
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Sathish Sivalingam continued Indian success at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Gold Coast today.
India have continued their sublime start to the 2017 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships by winning 10 medals on the third day of competition in Gold Coast.
Nigerian weightlifters may be forced to miss next year's 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast after failing to compete at the ongoing Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Australia.
Hong Kong's Siobhan Haughey, Danas Rapsys of Lithuania and Italy's Simona Quadarella all claimed their second titles of the 2017 Summer Universiade here this evening.
North Korea's Kim Kuk Hyang brought weightlifting competition to a fitting close at Taipei 2017 with yet another title for her country.
Rim Jong Sim claimed yet another weightlifting gold medal for North Korea at the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade today.
The European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) organised an anti-doping seminar in Latvia.
Chen Yan-cheng delighted home fans by winning Chinese Taipei’s first gold medal of the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade today.
Former European steeplechase medallist Lyubov Kharlamova is among five athletes and one weightlifter to have been handed drugs bans by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), it has been announced.
Donovan Ford came within one lift of making the grade for the United States' International Weightlifting Federation World Championship team with an impressive performance at the American Open Series Two here in Miami.
When Liechtenstein made its Olympic debut at Berlin in 1936 they discovered that the country's flag of two equal horizontal bands of blue on the top and red was identical to that of Haiti. It led to a crown being added to the top left hand corner of Liechtenstein's flag the following year to differentiate it. But it was not until 1976 that it got hoisted at an Olympic medal ceremony when Hanni Wenzel won a bronze in the giant slalom at the Winter Games in Innsbruck.
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