Iran’s national senior weightlifting championships were held in Shiraz during 7th-9th of January 2010 with the participation of 177 athletes from 22 provinces and in the end Fars with 181 points became the champion and Ardebil took the second place. The championship results are as follows: 56 Kg category1- Majeed Asgaree from Hormozgan / snatch […]
Olympic Weightlifting New Zealand, has a new interim President, Mr. Richard Dryden. He is well known in the Oceania region and also the Commonwealth. He has been involved with weightlifting for many years both as an administrator and as a coach. Richard replaces Mr. Garry Marshall who resigned from the position as President in December. Garry […]
The second session of hearing in the Monika Devi doping case was postponed following the absence of the lifter’s lawyer when the matter came up before the National Anti-Doping Disciplinary panel. The panel, headed by senior advocate Sudhir Nandrajog, put off the matter by another two months since one of the panel members, former Asian […]
Dear Friends, It is with great sadness that I inform you of the sudden and untimely passing (January 15th ) of our friend Chris Chugg. Chris was a champion weightlifter in his younger days and in recent years became one of the leading coaches in Australia, producing top lifters from his home state of Tasmania. […]