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Kashirina, Albegov, and Okulov Excluded from Russia’s Testing Pool
Five-time World Champion Tatiana Kashirina, Olympic medalist Ruslan Albegov, World Champion Artem Okulov, and others appear absent in Russia's National Testing Pool...
Mohammed Ehab (EGY) Retires From Weightlifting
The 2017 World Champion from Egypt Mohammed Ehab announced his retirement from the sport of weightlifting yesterday on the Egyptian news site...
Rostami and Alihosseini OUT of Olympic Contention
Kianoush Rostami (IRI), the 2016 Olympic champion and world record holder of the -85 kg weight class, and Saeid Alihosseini (IRI), the...
World Championships 2019 – Day 10 Roundup
W+87
Meng Suping (CHN) hit 137 on second attempt after an epic battle that took her right to the...
World Championships 2019 – Day 9 Roundup
M109
The snatches in this A group started as a bit of a bloodbath, with just four of the...
World Championships 2019 – Day 8 Roundup
W81
This A group looked like being extremely tight. On snatches, nine lifters planned to open between 100 and...
Kianoush Rostami Posts Statement After Missing Out At Worlds
Iranian 96 Kianoush Rostami has posted a statement to his Instagram account following his controversial bomb out at the 2019 World Weightlifting...
World Championships 2019 – Day 7 Roundup
M96
Full Report and results
This A group started quietly enough but soon became dramatic and...
World Championships 2019 – Day 6 Roundup
This day, with two non-Olympic categories, could have been a damp squib but it proved to be anything but, with two very...
World Championships 2019 – Day 5 Roundup
M81
Full report and results
Snatches were very tight in this group, with the lifters all...
World Championships 2019 – Day 4 Roundup
W59
Full details and results here
Snatches started really well in the Women's 59 kg A...
Articles
The Secrets of Chinese Weightlifting – Pt. 1
There was another phenomenal video posted by Shenzhen Weightlifting on Youtube discussing a...
Austin Baraki MD | Beyond the SRA Curve
Austin Baraki is a co-owner of Barbell Medicine, a hospital-based physician at a...
A Review of “Weightlifting University: Programming A Champion” – Dane Miller of Garage Strength
Introduction
Weightlifting University’s “Programming A Champion” is a course developed...
Two Postive Tests From 2019 Pan American Championships
The IWF has revealed that samples from two athletes at the Pan American Championships in April tested positive for the anabolic steroid...
Tokyo Slots For 17 Nations Limited Due to Doping
The IWF has released the latest version of the anti-doping violation counts for nations since 2008. This sets restrictions on the...
Tokyo Test Event Entry List
The entry list has been published for the Japan-China-Korea Friendship Tournament – the test event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The Most Outrageous Jump In Weightlifting?
Among all the big names at the British Championships and International Open last weekend, you could be forgiven for not recognising that...
British International Open: Ilya, Toma, Chumak, Seim, Ulanov and More
The release of the provisional start list for the Birdseye British International Open has revealed that some big names are perhaps going...
Ten Lifters Test Positive at Indian National Camp
It has been revealed that more than ten athletes failed drug tests at the Indian national training camp in Patiala. They have...
Start List for Junior World Championships
With the gold tier IWF Junior World Championships right around the corner, the start list has finally been released and includes many...
Cyrille Tchatchet Aims to Represent Refugees in Tokyo
British-resident weightlifter Cyrille Tchatchet II, originally from Cameroon has talked to the BBC about how he came to the UK and his...
Top Performances of the 2019 USAW National Championships
With a week having passed since the Nike USA Weightlifting National Championships powered by Rogue Fitness which took place in Memphis Tennessee,...
Team USA Announced for Pan American Games
USA Weightlifting has announced its small team of weightlifting representatives for the 2019 Pan American Games - July 27-30th - made up...
Pan American Championships 2019 – Day 4
Men's 96 kg
PosAthleteCountrySnatchC.&JerkResultRobi1RIVAS JhonatanCOL1802113911011.482LUNA AngelVEN162210372857.223BOADY SatavyCAN169201370842.01
Full results
Women's 76kg
German Bundesliga Final –Watch Live Sat 27/4/19
The final of the top division of the German Bundesliga weightlifting league competition will be streamed live here.
The...
Pan American Championships 2019 – Day 3
Women's 64 kg
Considering this is an Olympic category, it was surprising that there were no Robi scores of...
Pan American Championships 2019 – Day 1 and Day 2
The Pan-American Championships has a packed schedule, so there was plenty of action on the first couple of days, including lots of...
Asian Championships 2019 – Day 1
Men's 55 kg
Mansour Abdulrahim Al Saleem came into this group hoping to win Saudi Arabia's first gold medal...
Pan American Championships 2019 Schedule
The planned schedule is pretty packed, with up to five A sessions per day. Sessions will happen from early morning to evening...
Asian Championships Start List
The start book for the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships has been made available.
Indian Team for Asian Championships 2019
India will send a team of eight men and four women to the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships.
While the...
Iran Women Set For Asian Championships
Iran will send a team of seven women to the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships, in a sign of a continuing commitment to...
Oscar Figueroa Barred From Pan-American Championships
The 2016 Olympic Champion in the Men's 62 kg category, Colombia's Oscar Figueroa, has been told that he cannot compete at the...