The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that six weightlifters will be stripped of medals won at the London 2012 Games due to retrospective drug test failures.

Iran’s Ali Davoudi held off the challenge of Russia’s Dimitrii Gretsa to earn the final gold medal of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth World Championships in Penang.

Keydomar Vallenilla Sanchez won overall and clean and jerk gold in the men's 85kg category as the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth World Championships continued in Penang in Malaysia today.

Colombia's Yeison Lopez won three gold medals and broke three world records as the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth World Championships continued in Penang in Malaysia today.

China's Jinhong Zhao dominated the women's 48kg division as the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth World Championships began in Penang today.

Russian weightlifter Apti Aukhadov has been stripped of a London 2012 silver medal after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed he had tested positive following the re-analysis of samples.

Anaheim in the United States has stepped in to replace Penang as host of the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships, it has been announced today, after the Malaysian state encountered "difficulties" and resigned as organiser.

Romanian weightlifter Gabriel Sîncrăian is poised to lose the bronze medal he won at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after being notified of a failed drugs test.

Olympic medallist Yoshiyuki Miyake has been elected President of the Japanese Weightlifting Association (JWA) following the resignation of new Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike.

Weightlifting's world governing body will take no action regarding the suspension of National Federations who have violated anti-doping rules until proceedings have been completed by both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) officials have promised there will be "no respite" in their attempts to achieve a doping free Asian Beach Games here.

Gender equality has been achieved in weightlifting after the total number of female bodyweight categories was officially increased to eight at a meeting in Beijing.

In all the talk, public and private, about the doping crisis in weightlifting, the victims are rarely mentioned. Victims such as Ele Opeloge.

London 2012 ninth place finisher Tomasz Zielinski is poised to receive bronze in the men’s 94 kilogram weightlifting event after it emerged that Moldova’s Anatoli Ciricu produced an adverse analytical finding in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) retests.

Leading Australian weightlifting coach and official Paul Coffa has fiercely criticised poor transport, crowds and volunteers in a damning review of last month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.