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Nigeria's Rafiatu Lawal broke three Commonwealth Games records as she powered to Birmingham 2022 glory in the women's 59 kilograms weightlifting.
Nigeria's Rafiatu Folashade Lawal has clinched Gold in the final of the women's 59kg weightlifting event in the ongoing XXII Commonwealth Games holding in Birmingham. The 25-year-old lifted 90kg at the Snatch category, setting a new Commonwealth Games Record. At the clean & jerk category, she lifted 110kg at the first attempt, then at the…
Sunday, 18 April 2021 The women's 64 kilograms contest at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships, which start in the Dominican Republic tomorrow, highlights the improved performance of the United States and Canada throughout Olympic qualifying. It also emphasises that the biggest losers at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are likely to be Colombia. When qualifying was team-based for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the US sent a team of four and Canada two, while Colombia had nine, the second largest contingent behind China. This time around the US is hoping for a maximum eight, while C...
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 The Commonwealth Games Federation has introduced quota-reduction penalties in weightlifting for the first time in its qualification rules for Birmingham 2022. Every doping violation during the qualifying period will be punished by the loss of one place from the maximum team size of 16, which is split equally between men and women to match the number of medal events. Nations could be banned outright if they have more than three violations during a year - which is unlikely given the generally clean record in the sport of Commonwealth countries. Those with the worst do...