Humberto Selvetti, the first South American and first native Spanish speaker to win an Olympic weightlifting medal, is top of the list of athletes who will be inducted into the Pan American Weightlifting Federation (PAWF) Hall of Fame at a gala to be held on August 22.
Loredana Toma of Romania, Boady Santavy of Canada and the Belgian teenager Nina Sterckx were in outstanding form in the innovative Eleiko Email International Lifters Tournament, which attracted 751 entries from 63 countries.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has taken the first step towards giving athletes a meaningful voice in the sport’s future.
Young European weightlifters have lost one of their remaining chances to gain qualifying points for Tokyo 2020.
A new weightlifting competition for mixed-gender teams could be a formula to follow around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused so much disruption to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) calendar.
Prospective Olympians are among weightlifters from 15 countries who are competing this weekend, more than four months since the last competition on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) calendar.
Antonio Krastev, one of weightlifting’s all-time greats who was labelled “the world’s strongest man” in the 1980s, has died in a vehicle accident in the United States.
The best young male weightlifter in Austria will not compete for his homeland again after a serious breakdown in relations with his national federation.
Tributes have been paid to John Lear, the influential coach who worked with some of the biggest names in British weightlifting and led the national team at eight consecutive Olympic Games.
Sanjita Chanu, the Indian weightlifter who was cleared of doping two and a half years after testing positive, has won a prestigious sports award that was put on hold for her in 2018.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will have a new constitution and a new permanent leader within seven months.
Eileen Cikamatana, one of the brightest young talents in weightlifting, heads for the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra this week clinging on to a remote hope of competing at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The Hungarian National Anti-Doping Agency (HUNADO) has distanced itself from the corruption scandal in weightlifting in a statement that highlights its "impeccable" work.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has taken the first steps towards investigating dozens of doping positives that were said to have been "covered up" by its disgraced former President, Tamás Aján.
Sam Coffa, the Australian who lost his seat at the last International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) election, has been appointed one of the IWF’s two technical delegates for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games – by when he will be 85.
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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A century ago this week, the 1920 Olympics opened in Antwerp. The First World War and the Spanish flu pandemic meant putting on the Games was a massive challenge and, as Philip Barker reports, there are parallels with the huge task of re-organising Tokyo 2020.
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