John Coffee, who has died aged 76, was seen by everybody except himself as a pioneer for his role in the development of women's weightlifting in the United States.

Live TV coverage, shorter competitions and an app that tells you all you need to know are key features of German weightlifting’s "Agenda 2028" project to modernise the sport and make it more attractive to a wider audience.

Forrester Osei, Hidilyn Diaz and Luisa Peters will be working for weightlifters from around the world after joining the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) in an historic moment for the sport.

A combination of unusual circumstances has led to a 37-year-old Masters athlete from Northern Ireland becoming the first British weightlifter to appear on the international doping sanctions list this century.

A double Commonwealth Games weightlifting champion has been charged with a doping violation two and a half years after being cleared of an earlier offence which, she said, had made her feel "suicidal".

Yousef Al Mana will lead the Asian Weightlifting Federation (AWF) through to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after retaining his role as President in Doha today.

The International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) decision to toughen up on doping by handing over all procedures to the International Testing Agency (ITA) has led to a Ukrainian coach being banned from the sport for life.

Olympic champion Meso Hassona enhanced his reputation as a showman at the Qatar Cup, which drew to a close here in Doha yesterday, when he made a late decision to try a new style.

The most important weightlifting elections of 2023 will feature the two men who were involved in the controversial head-to-head contest to become President of sport's governing body last June.

You will not recognise her name, nor will you see her talking about it on social media but one of weightlifting's most popular athletes is back in business.

When Harry Tchobanian takes his seat on the jury at the Qatar Cup and West Asian Championships here today it will mark the start of his 75th year in weightlifting as an athlete, coach and technical official.

Mihaly 'Mike' Huszka, who has died aged 89 in Texas, began his international weightlifting career for Hungary in 1957 and became one of the great Masters lifters for both the United States and Hungary.

Lu Xiaojun says he has never cheated in his 24-year weightlifting career and will "prove my innocence" after being provisionally suspended for doping.

Lu Xiaojun, one of the biggest names in weightlifting and one of only five athletes to have won three Olympic gold medals in the sport, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for erythropoietin (EPO).