Weightlifting

weightlifting
24/12/2019
307
Fares Hassouna adjudged best lifter at Qatar International Weightlifting Cup
India's Mirabai Chanu was also won the best lifter award.
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weightlifting
23/12/2019
352
Fares Hassouna qualifies for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
The 18-year-old won the 96kg class at the Qatar International Cup Weightlifting Championships in Doha.
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weightlifting
12/02/2020
284
Egypt weightlifters out of world championships after doping ban
If CAS upholds the ruling, Egypt could also be barred from competing at the Tokyo Olympics next year.
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weightlifting
12/02/2020
338
World weightlifting body revokes Chanu’s doping ban
Chanu's sample, taken out-of-competition in the United States before the World Championships in November 2017, had tested positive for an…
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weightlifting
12/02/2020
336
Five weightlifters banned after 2012 Olympic tests reanalysed
Ukrainian Oleksiy Torokhtiy, Olympic -105kg gold medallist six years ago, and Uzbek Ruslan Nurudinov, who won the same category in…
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weightlifting
11/02/2020
983
Taiwan double Olympic weightlifting champion Hsu retires
It is the end of a remarkable run for the 27-year-old 53kg class world record holder, who sensationally grabbed gold…
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weightlifting
11/02/2020
583
India to challenge star weightlifter’s doping suspension
Chanu is the 13th Indian weightlifter to test positive in IWF tests in the past decade.
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Olympic Games
11/02/2020
1,729
Indonesia lifter wins Olympic bronze as rival fails drug test
Raema Lisa Rumbewas, who hails from Papua province, received the award on Sunday
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weightlifting
11/02/2020
1,282
Qatari teen Fares wins silver at World Championship
Fares claimed the honour in 94kg clean and jerk category
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weightlifting
11/02/2020
1,232
Iran allows women weightlifters to compete internationally
We have established the Iran Weightlifting Federation Women's Committee and we have talented female athletes.
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