The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced the appointment as CEO of Achilleas Tsogas, who will take up his duties on 1 March 2024 at the headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The 2024 European Weightlifting Championships will be held from 12-20 February in Sofia, Bulgaria. This is a qualifying competition for Paris 2024. Athletes will therefore need to perform at their best to improve their position in the Olympic rankings. 

The 2024 African Weightlifting Championships were held from 2-10 February in Ismailia, Egypt. The main star of the competition, Egypt's Karim Abokahla, the 2023 World Champion in the 96 kg category, did not disappoint the home crowd.

The final day of the 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent produced the biggest surprise of the tournament. Three Olympic medallists were among just seven competitors in the final two weight classes of the championships.

Uzbekistan won its first gold medal at the 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships to the delight of the home crowd in Tashkent as Tokyo 2020 champion Akbar Djuraev became the Asian champion in the 109kg category.

Jong Chun Hui was the last North Korean weightlifter to step onto the platform at the Yunusabad Sports Complex in Tashkent at the 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships. The other 10 North Koreans won gold medals over the first five days of the competition.

Day 5 of the 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships brought a new world record and two more gold medals for North Korea. Their athletes now have 10 gold medals and the only question now is whether they will make it 11 out of 11 on day 6.

A world record attempt, an eighth gold medal for North Korea and the first gold medal for another country. These were just some of the highlights of Day 4 of the 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent.

The 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships have already produced incredible results and some world records, but there is still plenty to see and interesting questions to answer ahead of the middle and heavyweights.

North Korean weightlifters swept all the gold medals at the 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships, including every gold medal in the snatch and clean and jerk except one in the men's 55kg category. And their dominance continued on day three as two more North Koreans were crowned Asian champions.

North Korea dominated the first two days of the Asian Weightlifting Championships 2024 in the light weight categories. In the absence of China, the North Korean athletes faced no stiff competition from their opponents, with their women's team also setting several world records.

The 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships began on 3 February in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. The day before, the Asian Weightlifting Federation (AWF) held there its annual congress.

In September 2023, Maxim Agapitov overturned a previous decision by the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) Ethics and Disciplinary Commission at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The European Weightlifting Federation has announced the formation of the EWF Temporary Athletes Commission under the new EWF Constitution. The working group, consisting of Mr. Caruana Jesmond (Chairman), Mr. Shai Oren (Legal Adviser), Mr. Osei Forrester (IWF AC Chairman), Dr Mihajlovic Milan (EWF General Secretary), Kt. Conflitti Antonio (EWF President), successfully established a procedure for EWF member federations to nominate athletes for this Commission and to present the proposal to the EWF EB and the EWF Congress.

Australian weightlifter Andrew Ciancio has been banned for 12 years by the Australian Weightlifting Federation for the presence of a metabolite of a prohibited substance and the use of a prohibited substance.