On 30 July 2014, the Commonwealth Weightlifting Federation held its Electoral Congress at the Glasgow Caledonia University on the occasion of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. This is the 77th year since its foundation in 1947. 37 nations of the Commonwealth participate in the weightlifting competition here in Glasgow. During its Congress, the Commonwealth Weightlifting […]
Commonwealth Games Federation CEO, Mike Hooper, has announced that Nigerian weightlifter, Chika Amalaha, has been issued with a notice of disclosure after returning an adverse analytical finding from a in-competition test on July 25, and has been provisionally suspended from the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Ms Amalaha won the gold medal in the Women’s […]
BEAUCHEMIN-NADEAU Marie-Eve (CAN) smashed the Commonwealth Games records for both the Clean and Jerk and Total by 11kg to win Gold in the Women’s 75kg. She broke a total of 6 records on her way to victory and equaled another in the Snatch. The Canadian lifter was successful in all 6 lifts and staved off […]
FEGUE claims Gold for Cameroon FEGUE Marie (CMR) blitzed the opposition to win in the Women’s 69kg and give Cameroon its first Commonwealth Gold Medal since 2002. But with the medal in the bag, she did not attempt the 133kg lift that would have broken the Commonwealth Games Clean and Jerk Record. Instead she lifted […]
ADESANMI wins Nigerian battle to take weightlifting Gold from teammate OKOLI ADESANMI Olauwatoyin (NGR) beat fellow Nigerian and defending champion OKOLI Obioma to Gold in the Women’s 63kg weightlifting on bodyweight, after both finished with a Total of 207kg at the Clyde Auditorium on Sunday. OKOLI needed to lift 123kg in the final Clean and […]