Tag: Weightlifting

MOSCOW: Russia’s former world weightlifting champion Khadzhimurat Akkaev has been banned for eight years for a third doping offence since 2005, the domestic weightlifting...

SYDNEY: Pakistan’s talented weightlifter Rabia Shahzad on Saturday bagged gold at the Ralph Cashman Open Weightlifting Championship in New South Wales, Australia. 20-year-old Rabia participated...

JAKARTA: Sohrab Moradi of Iran broke weightlifting´s longest standing world record on his way to gold in the men´s 94kg class at the Asian...

BADRA: While some towns in Iraq are known for producing oil or textiles, Badra boasts its own special conveyer belt -- churning out weightlifting...

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Sports Jahangir Khanzada on Tuesday congratulated the young weightlifting star Nooh Dastagir Butt for winning Pakistan’s second bronze medal in the...

PESHAWAR: The Punjab Sports Board (PSB) contingent stole the show and grabbed 35 medals during the first two days of the 4th Inter-Provincial Games in...

Pakistan last won a gold medal at the Asian championship in 1976 when Muhammad Arshad Malik won in the Clean+ Jerk and also in total by competing in the middle-weight category.

Wapda securing 91 points won the inaugural National Women Weightlifting Championship 2013 on Saturday. Army with 64 was at second position while Railway getting second...

Punjab Police Inter-range Weightlifting and Powerlifting Championship 2013 will be held on March 26th and 27th at Police Headquarters Lines Rawalpindi. Punjab Police Sports Board...

ShadBagh Women College Lahore won Saif Sports Aga Open Women Powerlifting Championship with 39 points here on Saturday. National Weightlifting Club  Coaching Centre was places...

Russian weightlifting Olympic champion Arkady Vorobiev has died at the age of 88, the country's Weightlifting Federation said on Monday. "On December 22, the...

Comments made by sports commentators during the Summer Olympics that they would like to take back: 1. Weightlifting commentator: “This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria...

Prominent weightlifters of the country have shown no confidence against the Pakistan Weightlifting Federation and have asked the Pakistan Sports Board and the Pakistan...

The 2nd Khawaja Samiud Din Weightlifting Gold Cup will be held on May 30 at Greens Catering and Restaurant 23 C 111 near...

The sports department of Lahore Police has on Friday announced the Lahore police weightlifting team for participation in the Punjab Police Inter-range Games. The Punjab...

University of Central Punjab won the All Pakistan Intervarsity Weightlifting Championship title. Around eleven universities of the country participated in the event and UCP...

The Quaid-e-Azam day Weightlifting Championship was held here at the Punjab University Ground Weightlifting Center the other day with almost all international and national...