Weightlifting seminars have been held in South America to help promote the Olympic sport across the continent.

Weightlifting Fiji have announced they have qualified eight athletes for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Malta's Jesmond Caruana has been elected as the President of the European Union Weightlifting Confederation.

Megan Signal has been conditionally selected for the New Zealand weightlifting team which will compete at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Commonwealth Games Wales have announced a 12-strong weightlifting squad for Gold Coast 2018.

Weightlifting remains on probation by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is not assured of remaining on the Paris 2024 programme unless its doping problems continue to be addressed, they were warned here today. 

Justin Gatlin, the sprinter who served two doping bans and was booed by the crowd on his way to victory over Usain Bolt at the World Athletics Championships in London in August, served as an inspiration to an Iranian weightlifter who made a remarkable return to his sport after serving an eight-year ban.

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.

Ilya Atnabayev, a former European Youth champion weightlifter who was handed a four-year doping ban in 2015, has now been suspended after mistakenly being allowed to participate in a top domestic bobsleigh competition by Russian authorities.

The American teenager Clarence ‘CJ’ Cummings is expected, on Friday (December 1), to go where no American male has been in 20 years – on to the podium at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships.

Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard has been selected to compete for New Zealand at Gold Coast 2018 after being named in their 12-strong weightlifting squad for the Commonwealth Games.

Iranian Olympic weightlifting champion Kianoush Rostami has announced that he will sell his gold medal to aid the victims of Sunday's (November 12) earthquake which rocked his country.

Weightlifting is set to adopt a new qualification system for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, based on individual performance rather than national teams' aggregated efforts at major championships.

Russian weightlifter Ruslan Albegov, an Olympic bronze medallist at London 2012, has been suspended on suspicion of doping.

Mattie Rogers, the world’s most popular weightlifter on social media, is among seven contenders who could give the United States its best World Championships medal haul in decades.