Lifters Pun, Thapa make it to SAG final squad
The Nepal Weightlifting Association, on Friday, picked up 20 lifters for the 13th South Asian Games slated for December 1-10 in Kathmandu, Pokhara and Janakpur.
The Nepal Weightlifting Association, on Friday, picked up 20 lifters for the 13th South Asian Games slated for December 1-10 in Kathmandu, Pokhara and Janakpur.
Last week’s women’s 71kg A session at the 2019 IWF World Weightlifting Championships made history. Kate Nye set a new Junior World Record and became the youngest American woman to be crowned World Champion.
The Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) has a new director. Long-standing track and field administrator Esther Maynard has been replaced on the board by Shelley-Ann Griffith. Griffith, who has been involved in sports administration at various levels of schools...
The IWF maintained its emphasis on educating athletes about Anti-doping, and in particular their rights and responsibilities, with a range of activities linked to the #iLiftCLEAN campaign. Now a mainstay of the activities for athletes and their entourages at the IWF World Championships...
The President of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation, Marcus Stephen turned 50 today! Mr Stephen was a fire starter in Oceania weightlifting when he was identified as a talented young athlete at the age of 16.
The Olympic and multiple World Champion, Georgian title defender, TALAKHADZE Lasha won the +109kg bodyweight category competition with a fantastic performance at the last day of the 2019 IWF World Championships.
Two Chinese and a Russian formed trio rivalized in the heaviest women’s bodyweight category, the +87kg, for the first place and finally, LI Wenwen (CHN) came out victorious. The Snatch World Record holder performed one kilogram under her best...
WANG Zhouyu (CHN) was Champion of the 76kg category last year, now jumped in the 87kg’s competition and won all the Gold Medals easily. Only KIM Un Ju (PRK) could keep up with her but was left 5kg behind in the Snatch by the Chinese who lifted 120kg.
LaLiga Sports TV, the multi-sports OTT platform launched by Spanish football's LaLiga, has reached 300,000 registered users, according to LaLiga president Javier Tebas who was speaking at the World Football Summit in Madrid, reports SportBusiness.
Defending champion Armenian MARTIROSYAN Simon won all three Gold Medals in the men’s 109kg bodyweight category. He triumphed in the Clean and Jerk and Total effortlessly but had a hard fight for the Snatch first place.
Cutting ahead of the medal favorites, North-Korean JIN Yunseong won the Snatch with 397kg in the men’s 102kg category this Wednesday at the World Championships in Thailand but clinched the overall Gold from Belorus TSIKHANSOU Yauheni, European Champion this year in 96kg category.
The multiple Olympic and World Champion VALENTIN PEREZ Lidia could not defend her title in the women’s 81kg at the World Championships in Pattaya, where she was defeated by Columbian SOLIS ARBOLEDA Leidy Yessenia, not only in the first lift but in Total as well.