In the first final of an Olympic bodyweight category at the 2023 IWF World Championships, the women’s 49kg, the team of China demonstrated once again why they are so hard to beat in the lighter categories. In the 10-athlete Group A, there were in fact two distinct competitions – the one between Hou Zhihui and […]
A Saudi Arabian athlete appropriately made the opening lift when the 2023 IWF World Championships began in Riyadh, where a number of other “firsts” and records will be made over the next two weeks. This is the first time Saudi Arabia has hosted a weightlifting World Championships, at 14 days it is the longest to […]
At only 16, after only two previous presences at international events, Loa Dika Toua made history at the 2000 Games in Sydney (AUS). It was the inaugural women’s weightlifting competition ever in the Olympic arena and the young athlete from Papua New Guinea was the first one to lift the bar in Australia. “I was of […]