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By PTI NEW DELHI: A new rule prevented India from rejigging the weight categories of its lifters for maximum advantage but country's 15-strong contingent, headlined…

Mirabai Chanu. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)NEW DELHI: A new rule prevented India from rejigging the weight categories of its lifters for maximum advantage but country's 15-strong…

Express News Service CHENNAI: Indian weightlifters are getting into their zone, almost literally. They are perhaps one of those few players from India to reach…

Express News Service CHENNAI:  The proposed training stint of five Indian weightlifters in the USA has been called off.  The lifters — Jeremy Lalrinnunga, Achinta…

Express News Service CHENNAI: AVEENASH Pandoo will soon be joining as a high performance director with the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF). His appointment will…

Indian weightlifters are scheduled to compete at the Weightlifting World Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. However, they are in a state of limbo at the moment due to new travel…

In another major setback for weightlifting, Olympic gold medalist Oxana Slivenko of Russia was named amongst the 13 lifters to face doping charges by the International Testing…

Weightlifting legend, Karnam Malleswari, who was the first Indian woman to win a medal (a bronze at the 2000 Sydney Games) at the Olympics, is overjoyed with Mirabai Chanu’s silver…

Hubbard is set to become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Games after she was selected for the New Zealand team in the women's super-heavyweight 87+kg category. The…

TOKYO: The International Olympic Committee on Saturday backed New Zealand's selection of transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard for the Tokyo Olympics despite criticism, saying that under…