Sam Coffa News Today

HANGZHOU, China--Two hurdlers were crowned champions after a photo finish at the Asian Games on Monday while North Korea doubled down in record-breaking style in the weightlifting.

Weightlifters will no longer be able to take their nation’s flag on to the podium, the head of the sport’s governing body said here today on the eve of the Asian Championships

The woman who was the driving force behind one of the most significant changes in modern weightlifting is returning to the sport after a six-year absence to become technical delegate for next year's Olympic Games in Paris.

There were angry scenes at the International Weightlifting Federation elections in Tirana today before calm was restored and Mohamed Jaloud was declared the new President of the sport’s governing body.

Eleven candidates have been cleared to stand for the Presidency of the International Weightlifting Federation, which will hold arguably the most important elections in its history next month.

The International Weightlifting Federation has missed yet another deadline in its seemingly never-ending elections process.

The weightlifting qualifying programme for Paris 2024 has finally been approved by athletes - more than a month after it should have happened.

The words of Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee President, will be ringing in the ears of delegates tomorrow when the International Weightlifting Federation holds its severely curtailed Congress in Uzbekistan.

Some of weightlifting’s most popular Olympic champions of the 21st century – and a 92-year-old who won Olympic gold nearly 70 years ago – have added their voices to the clarion call for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board to put the sport before their own interests.

Weightlifting’s warring factions are involved in a dispute that could end in legal action concerning the Acting President of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) Maxim Agapitov.