Weightlifting News

Long-time rivals Karlos Nasar (BUL -89kg) and Antonino (Nino) Pizzolato (ITA -89kg) have been battling it out for years in-competition and on social media. They first locked horns at the...

Just when we thought the drama of Olympic weightlifting selection was over, an official announcement from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been released concerning the AIN (Individual Neutral Athletes) weightlifters from Russia...

Hundreds of athletes were tested during these three months, both in and out of competition, but it was Loredana Toma (ROU -71), the two-time world champion and ex-world record holder from Romania, who...

A world record party! What a week of training. Two jerk world records, one total world record 🚀 Antonino Pizzolato (ITA-89) jerked 230kg from the blocks last week. That’s 13kg...

This week the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) released their 2023 Anti-Doping statistics, held in conjunction with the International Testing Agency (ITA). By the numbers: 3,192 samples were collected (55.3% of...

Sohrab Moradi (IRI) - 94kg Olympic champion-turned-coach, Sohrab Moradi, has shared some of his training lifts on his instagram story the last few weeks. His 215kg clean seems like he...

537 days (or 46,396,800 seconds) after the Olympic qualifying period started with the -45kg category at the 2022 World Championships the IWF has finally announced the official list of weightlifters...

For those of you who have been following the qualifying period closely you’ll likely know who the USA is likely to select (or be left with) for their Olympic team. ...

These are the most notable training lifts we've seen this week: Lasha Talakhadze (GEO +109) power cleans 210kg! The most we’ve ever seen from him is 215kg, but surely he can...

If the name Nate Cerwinske rings a bell it might be because you recognise him from his popular YouTube channel where he became known for ‘destroying local gyms’ with his...

The IWF Youth World Championships are currently running in Lima, Peru (May 22nd - 26th). Why so short?   The entire competition is being crammed into just five days as...

These are the lifts you need to see from the last week, from some of the biggest names in the sport of weightlifting. One lift is so heavy it's over the current world record.