Weightlifting News

When it hit 1pm in Lima today, American weightlifting fans turned their eyes to the IWF Grand Prix at the Eduardo Dibos Coliseum. (It's streaming.) Here in the stadium, there was electricity in the air as ... Continue Reading

The last great (international) Olympic weightlifting event of 2019 is happening this week in Lima, Peru, and you can watch it all from the comfort of your own home. The IWF Grand Prix ODESUR CSLP 2019 ... Continue Reading

This week, dozens of the world’s best weightlifters will be competing in one of the most exciting weightlifting events of the year: the IWF Grand Prix, which is being held in Lima, Peru. Hosted by the ... Continue Reading

One of Egypt's most decorated weightlifters, Mohamed Ihab, has announced his retirement from the sport, according to Ahram Online. This news comes just after Egypt's National Olympic Committee (NOC) ... Continue Reading

The eighth day of competition at the IWF Weightlifting World Championships just wrapped up tonight from Pattaya, Thailand. In the women's -81kg weight class, Jenny Arthur added two more medals to Team ... Continue Reading

The seventh day of the 2019 Weightlifting World Championships just concluded in Pattaya, Thailand, and the 96kg A session was one of the best overall sessions in recent history. Heading into the 96kg A ... Continue Reading

Chinese weightlifter Lu Xiaojun swept his fifth International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Weightlifting Championships with a world record breaking performance. Lu dominated the men’s ... Continue Reading

It was an electric day for the Team USA -71kg women's athletes at the 2019 IWF World Championships. Heading into this year's World Championships, Katherine Nye and Mattie Rogers were on everyone's "who to ... Continue Reading

The third day of the 2019 IWF World Weightlifting Championships in Pattaya, Thailand has concluded with a rarely seen record setting performance by Uzbekistan’s Adkhamjon Ergashev. The twenty year old set ... Continue Reading

The second day of competition at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships in Pattaya, Thailand has concluded with the Chinese Weightlifting team setting and resetting four World Records ... Continue Reading

The first day of competition has concluded in Pattaya, Thailand at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships. The highlight of the day came in the men’s 55KG category, where North Korea’s Om Chul Yun ... Continue Reading

The 2019 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Weightlifting Championships are officially underway, and +109kg world record holding weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze has already gotten our ... Continue Reading

There will not be any Egyptian weightlifters competing at the 2019 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships this month due to multiple doping offenses that have surfaced. Inside the ... Continue Reading

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Weightlifting Championships is the biggest weightlifting competition of the year and it's about to get underway.  The competition kicks off on ... Continue Reading

Earlier this week, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) published the preliminary start list for the 2019 Weightlifting World Championships. This year IWF World Championships are scheduled for ... Continue Reading

With heavy hearts, we are sad to announce that legendary American weightlifting coach Glenn Pendlay has passed away at the age of 48. Multiple athletes and coaches heavily vested in the weightlifting ... Continue Reading

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Weightlifting Championships gets underway in Pattaya, Thailand on September 18th, and on Wednesday the IWF released the entry list for the ... Continue Reading

USA weightlifter Katherine Nye (-71kg) is gearing up for the 2019 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Weightlifting Championships, which are taking place September 18th through the 27th in ... Continue Reading

We're just about three weeks away from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships, and one athlete who's looking ready is -96kg Kazakh weightlifter, Ilya Ilyin. Ilyin ... Continue Reading

CJ Cummings, a dominant -73kg athlete on Team USA Weightlifting, just floored us all with his insane walkout into a 205kg overhead squat. Cummings has had an impressive year to say the least for USA ... Continue Reading

Split, power, and squat jerks all are effective ways to hoist heavy loads overhead. Many lifters, however, find themselves struggling to properly move heavy loads from the front rack to the lockout ... Continue Reading

Earlier this week, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and the International Testing Agency (ITA) opened up an anti-doping rule violation investigation of five Russian weightlifters. Just ... Continue Reading