A message on the organisation's website has confirmed that Agapitov, a weightlifting world champion in 1997, will take over the role permanently after serving as interim head since September. The ...

His father crouches down to help him, then carries him across to the other side of the platform to try with another set of weights. It is a picture of innocence. The boy’s name is Zakhar and his ...

The IWF Executive Board decided in May 2023 to clear weightlifters from Russia and Belarus to take part in all international tournaments, with the caveat that they participate as neutrals MOSCOW, ...

MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS/. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) ruled to lift provisional suspensions of two Russian weightlifters imposed last year over doping abuse allegations, ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – The International Weightlifting Federation has banned the Russian federation and all its weightlifters from the Rio Olympics. The IWF said Friday the multiple cases of doping ...

The Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) has appealed its ban from the Rio Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has confirmed. Russian weightlifters were suspended by the International ...