Boxing fails to make cut in initial Olympic programme The sports of skateboarding, sports climbing and surfing that first featured at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been included in the initial sports programme for … Olympics • 09 Dec 21
Tokyo 2020: Transgender lifter Hubbard retires Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has announced she will retire in the wake of her groundbreaking appearance at the Tokyo Olympics this week. Olympics • 04 Aug 21
Investigation finds corruption at highest level of IWF The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) was plagued by corruption orchestrated by autocratic former president Tamas Ajan, said Richard McLaren who led an independent investigation into … Olympics • 04 Jun 20
Weightlifting attempts to clean up its image The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has threatened the sport with removal from the Paris 2024 Games if it fails to improve its doping record and … Olympics • 30 Oct 18
Weightlifter loses Rio medal over doping The first medal to change hands at the Rio Games for doping has placed further doubt on weightlifting's credibility as an Olympic sport. Olympics • 18 Aug 16
Russia faces another Rio ban over dope tests Russia's weightlifters face being banned from the Rio Olympics, subject to confirmation by the International Olympic Committee, in another collective doping punishment to hit the … Olympics • 23 Jun 16
Four Kazakh Olympic champions fail doping tests Four Olympic weightlifting champions from Kazakhstan are among ten lifters to have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at the London 2012 Olympics after their samples … Olympics • 16 Jun 16
Twenty Olympic weightlifters failed doping tests Twenty weightlifters have tested positive in the reanalysis of doping samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, the International Weightlifting Federation has announced. Olympics • 06 Jun 16
Weightlifting: Salimi leads Iranian one-two Behdad Salimi added the Olympic crown to his reigning world and Asian titles as he triumphed in the men's +105kg and brought the curtain down … Olympics • 07 Aug 12
Weightlifting: Oleksiy Torokhtiy claims 105kg gold A last-minute back injury that required emergency surgery cost weightlifter Khadzhimurat Akkaev an Olympic gold medal and a clean sweep of world records, the Russian … Olympics • 07 Aug 12
Weightlifting: Third gold medal for Kazakhstan Svetlana Podobedova won Kazakhstan's third weightlifting gold of the London Olympics after an epic battle with Russia's Natalya Zabolotnaya in a head-to-head so close that … Olympics • 03 Aug 12
Rim extends North Korea's golden run Rim Jong Sim triumphed from a nailbiting women's 69kg to take North Korea's weightlifting gold medal count to three at the 2012 Olympic Games and … Olympics • 01 Aug 12
Weightlifting: Men's gold for China in 69kg Lin Qingfeng went some way to restoring China's reputation as a weightlifting superpower after taking Olympic gold in the men's 69kg tonight. Olympics • 31 Jul 12
Weightlifting: Wang wins Olympic gold China's Wang Mingjuan has spoken of her joy after taking gold in the women's 48kg category - the first in weightlifting at the 2012 Olympic … Olympics • 30 Jul 12
Pulaku fails drugs test Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku has been thrown out of the London 2012 Olympics after failing a drugs test. Olympics • 28 Jul 12
Oksana Slivenko out of weightlifitng Russian gold medal favourite Oksana Slivenko has been forced to withdraw from the weightlifting competition at the London Olympic Games. Olympics • 28 Jul 12
