Sonny Webster, Great Britain’s only male weightlifter at the Rio 2016 Olympics who has called for life bans against doping cheats, has been banned from the sport for four years after testing positive for the prohibited substance ostarine.

Olympic weightlifter Edwin Mosquera Roa has died after being shot in the Colombian city of Palmira.

For four years Chile’s weightlifting federation have known they had somebody very, very special in their midst, a potential world and Olympic champion - if only they could get him a Chilean passport.

Iran’s Sohrab Moradi broke the men’s 94 kilograms clean and jerk and overall world records on his way to claiming a hat-trick of gold medals on day six of the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Adam Pengilly has given his backing to weightlifting retaining its Olympic status but believes the sport should be kept on "quite a strict probation".

Egypt’s Mohamed Ihab Youssef Ahmed Mahmoud claimed a clean sweep of the men’s 77 kilograms titles on day five of the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here as Harrison Maurus ended the United States’ long wait for a male medallist on the global stage.

Experienced coach Kyle Pierce has been inducted into USA Weightlifting’s Hall of Fame during the 2017 World Championships here in Anaheim.

South Korea’s Won Jeongsik claimed the men’s 69 kilograms overall title on day four of the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation World Championships as home favourite Clarence Cummings Jr bombed out in the clean and jerk.

Spanish weightlifter Lidia Valentín’s long wait to receive her re-allocated Olympic medals following the re-testing of samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 looks set to extend into next year.

United States Olympic Committee (USOC) chief executive Scott Blackmun believes the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has shown "real mettle" in terms of the decisions it has made in aiming to preserve the sport’s Olympic status.