Recent disqualification of Uzbekistan lifter has now given Fernando Reis to become the first Brazilian ever to win an International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships medal – more than two years after the event. He has been promoted to third place in the 2018 IWF World Championships after the disqualification of an Uzbekistan lifter, Rustam […]
A Chinese Liu Ning who administered anabolic steroids to her athletes via massage gel when she was the coach of Thailand Women’s Weightlifting Team has been provincially suspended. As a result of the doping infarction the Thailand team lost three world titles in 2018. Liu Ning, from China, was national women’s team coach at the […]
A lot of Weightlifting Stakeholders have warned that if delayed election is not hold on time before Olympics; the Weightlifting will lose her Olympics status. They argued that if Weightlifting Federation (IWF) should not hold its delayed elections before the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games then the sport’s chances of retaining its place on the […]
The recalcitrant board of International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) finally made a volte-face on Anti-Doping rules but not after heavy criticism from International Olympics Committee (IOC). It has also accepted independent advice about the vetting of candidates for next month’s elections, which will be carried out by a British company with no links to anybody at […]
Nijat Rahimov, a Kazakhstan gold medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and Dumitru Captari of Romania – who also competed in the under-77 kilograms event in Rio de Janeiro have been provisional suspended for urine sample swapping. Both men now stand suspended after being charged under article 2.2 of the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) […]
Russian Olympic silver medalist, five time super-heavyweight World Champion and eight time European Weightlifting Champion, Tatiana Kashirina, has been suspended because of evidence taken from the Moscow Laboratory during an investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Kashirina, who will be 30 next month, was a gold-medal prospect in the women’s super-heavyweights at Tokyo 2020. […]
Venezuela faces a loss of Olympic Weightlifting quota places because of multiple doping offences; with a new doping case bringing to 10. Jeyson Mosquera, who won three 102 kilograms competitions last year, including the South American Championships, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for hormone and metabolic modulators. When all current doping cases are […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday stripped two Romanian weightlifting athletes of their medals from the 2012 Olympic Games and disqualified a third over the use of anabolic steroids. Roxana Cocos, who won silver in the women’s 69kg category and team mate Razvan Martin, a bronze medallist in the men’s category of the same […]
In a letter to IWF Interim President Mike Irani and the Executive Board, former International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) director general Attila Adamfi has accused Richard McLaren of trying to produce false evidence and forging documents to support allegations of corruption at the governing body. Adamfi, who officially left his position at the organisation by “mutual […]
An investigation into weightlifting which was launched by WADA’s intelligence and investigations (I&I) department in August 2017; the investigation has now yielded results with discovering evidence of “doppelgangers” impersonating athletes. Eighteen weightlifters from six countries are suspected of providing manipulated urine samples after a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) probe discovered evidence of “doppelgangers” impersonating athletes. […]
The American Ursula Papandrea, who was voted out of office as Interim President of the IWF on Tuesday has now throw in the towel, accusssing IWF Executive Board of putting its own members’ interests ahead of the sport’s Olympic future in a damning resignation letter. Her resignation as a vice-president, after nine months of “stalling, […]
Four days after International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach issued a stern statement about weightlifting’s Olympic future, a damaging rift at the top of the sport’s governing body has been exposed. On one side of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) divide are a number of Executive Board members from nations that have been banned […]
Egyptian Member of Parliament says there has been “a wave of anger” from weightlifters and coaches after the appointment of Mahmoud Mahgoub to a new leadership role in the sport. The MP John Talaat has made a formal request for an explanation from the Minister of Youth and Sport Ashraf Sobhy, who chose Mahgoub to […]
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced the provisional suspension of a Bulgaria Todor Yordanow for tested positive to banned substance. The IWF said in a short statement that Yordanow returned an adverse analytical finding for testosterone and “at least” one anabolic steroid. The athlete has been provisionally suspended “in view of a potential anti-doping […]
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has taken another significant step in its attempts to clean up a tarnished sport by giving the majority of seats on its new Anti-Doping Commission to independent members. Christine Girard, who won Olympic bronze and gold medals after doping cheats were disqualified at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 and who […]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has demanded action from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) over 130 doping samples “hidden” during the tenure of its disgraced former president Tamás Aján. Evidence of the 130 untested samples was found by the McLaren team but not announced when the report was published, apparently because there had been insufficient […]
A successful joint seminar held by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and the Oceania Weightlifting Federation attracted participants from 29 countries. The technical seminar was held over the course of a day. It was overseen by IWF honorary advisor Sam Coffa and fellow Australian Pedro Sanchez, a member of the IWF Technical Committee. Organisers say […]
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Bańka has declared that the organisation was “appalled” by the findings of McLaren’s team. The McLaren report revealed that doping positives had been covered up, athletes who should have been banned won medals at world and continental levels, and suspensions were deliberately delayed by Aján’s “meddling” and interference in […]
An independent investigation led by the Canadian law professor Richard McLaren has found Tamas Ajanand, former president of International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) guilty in about 40 doping case cover-up and about $10.4m unaccounted for. McLaren was scathing in his criticism of Tamás Ajánand his “autocratic, authoritarian leadership” of the IWF, where he served as general […]
The Fiji sport administrators were dazed when Fiji women won more than half of the seat, including the president in the election to the Fiji Weightlifting Board. The female outgoing President Atma Maharaj has now been replaced by a woman, Della Shaw-Elder. Ursula Papandrea, who became the first woman to lead the International Weightlifting Federation […]
A dilemma of opinions spread over the Weight Lifting’s family concerning the case of the most successful Egyptian Weight Lifting coach whose his last coaching with Egyptian Weight Lifters ended in disaster; when the seven minor were ban for doping offence. Korany has now been provincially suspended of which he may face life ban if […]
Weightlifting has been given approval by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to extend its Tokyo 2020 qualifying period by a year, until the end of April 2021. Every athlete, including those who already have enough points to qualify, will be compelled to compete at least one more time in the period between October 1 this […]
Khaled Korany, one of most respected international weight lifting coach, who has helped weightlifters from Egypt and Saudi Arabia win medals at the highest level of the sport has denied any involvement in the teenage doping scandal that led to Egypt being banned from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Khaled Korany, who is currently head […]
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