The United States has named its team for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships three months before the first lift in Colombia's capital Bogotá.

The Pakistan Weightlifting Federation (PWLF), which faces exclusion from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, has vowed to ignore a "biased, arbitrary and unfair" ban imposed by a Government body which found "serious irregularities in its functioning, corrupt practices and violation of the anti-doping code".

Pyrros Dimas, a triple Olympic champion for Greece and President of its national weightlifting federation, has described the head of Albanian weightlifting as "a joke" after he blamed the Dimas family and Greek coaches for the latest doping positive cases in the Balkan state.

An Olympic medallist from Armenia and a world record holder from Colombia have switched nationality and will represent host nation Bahrain at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in October.

Tough new rules on out-of-competition testing are being planned by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) - and those who transgress will face exclusion from the Olympic Games.

The newly-elected Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) put in "a lot of positive energy" at its first meeting, where it took the first steps towards securing the troubled sport’s Olympic future.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) does not have an elected President and should restage the recent elections that were described as "a circus" by the current IWF general secretary.

Seven weeks after its athletes topped the medals table at the European Championships, the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation (BFVT) is having its licence revoked.

Reanna Solomon, a mother of five from Nauru who competed at the Olympic Games and remains her country’s only female gold medallist in any sport at the Commonwealth Games, has died from COVID-19 at the age of 40.

Olympic medallists were among weightlifters from seven countries who competed at - but not in - the USA National Championships in Las Vegas.

Guy Koller, President of the French Weightlifting Federation, has died while attending the Mediterranean Games in Oran, the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF) has announced.

Antonio Urso has defeated José Quinones by one vote in the controversial head-to-head contest for one of the most senior roles at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

Weightlifting will "risk losing everything" in a controversial vote tomorrow, the former International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board member Karoliina Lundahl has told delegates.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will hold a second round of voting for one of its top roles after the wrong result was called at elections in Tirana over the weekend.