More than 30 years after the global acceptance of women into weightlifting, Iran is sending a senior female team to an international competition for the first time.
When athletes from Greece, Belgium and Austria won medals last Friday, the penultimate day of the European Weightlifting Championships, they collectively helped to set a record that will be welcomed by everybody working to clean up a sport that has for so long been tainted by doping.
A noisy home crowd in Batumi, Georgia were on their feet on the final day of the European Weightlifting Championships when Lasha Talakhadze smashed three of his own world records in the final event, the men’s super-heavyweights.
A hugely popular Olympic weightlifting champion has been excluded from the Pan American Championships which start in Guatemala next weekend because of his failure to update his whereabouts information.
Greece, Belgium and Austria joined the growing list of nations on the medals table at the European Weightlifting Championships in Batumi, Georgia.
There was a surprise defeat for Lidia Valentin when she failed with her final lift in the women’s 76kg on day six of the European Weightlifting Championships in Batumi, Georgia.
Russia had its first gold medal of the week at the European Weightlifting Championships in Batumi in Georgia and also welcomed back Apti Aukhadov, one of their lifters who lost a London 2012 Olympic Games medal for a doping disqualification.
Loredana Toma, of Romania, won her third straight European senior title with a commanding performance in the women’s 64 kilograms on the fourth day of the European Weightlifting Championships in Batumi in Georgia.
Daniyar Ismayilov, the Turkish weightlifter who has made headlines for disciplinary problems as well as for winning a silver medal at Rio 2016, has crashed out of contention for a place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Weightlifters from Poland and Belarus won the medal events on day two of the European Championships in Batumi, Georgia – and there was a huge roar when Georgia’s Shota Mishvelidze made the last lift of the night.
Italy's Mirco Scarantino claimed his third European title in the minimum weight class, while Romanian Elena Andries moved up the Olympic qualifying list by winning gold for the second successive year on day one of the European Weightlifting Championships in Batumi, Georgia.
Weightlifters from across Europe feel they are victims of an “outdated” data system at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after being barred from competing at the European Championships, which start in Batumi, Georgia today.
For the first time since the start of the new Olympic qualifying programme last November, the focus of the weightlifting world is on Europe.
A member of the United States weightlifting team who claims she was raped by a team-mate who, at the time, was an athletes’ representative on the board of the sport’s national governing body, has issued a lawsuit against the alleged perpetrator, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and USA Weightlifting.
Russia's absence from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth World Championships, which finished last week in Las Vegas, was a direct result of the United States' failure to issue visas for the team, the Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) President Maxim Agapitov said.
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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