Weight Lifting

Asian Powerlifting Championship: Nooh Dastgir Butt creates new history TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN – Pakistan’s powerlifting sensation, Nooh Dastgir Butt, has made history by winning his first gold medal at the Asian Powerlifting Championship, currently underway in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Butt, a Pride of Performance and Commonwealth Gold Medalist, lifted an impressive 400 kg in the squat event, setting a new Asian record ...

Pakistan Powerlifting Team Dominates Asian Powerlifting Championship 2024, Bags 12 Gold Medals Tashkent, Uzbekistan – The Pakistani powerlifting team continues to make waves at the Asian Powerlifting Championship 2024, with its athletes achieving unprecedented success on the international stage. After Asim Shezad’s outstanding performance in the 66-kg Masters-1 category, where he secured four gold medals, two more Pakistani powerlifters, Dr. ...

ports Board Punjab holds grand ceremony to honour three powerlifter sisters, who clinched 15 gold medals in Asian Pacific African Combined Powerlifting Championship Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muzaffar Khan Sial and Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal were the guests of honour on this occasion LAHORE (July 24, 2024): Nawaz Gohar Sports Board Punjab organized a grand ceremony ...

Lack of government support is a hindrance to weightlifting talent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Sheraz Muhammad by Ghani Ur Rehman PESHAWAR: Secretary General of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Weightlifting Association Shiraz Muhammad has emphasized that weightlifting is a popular sport in Pakistan but is severely neglected by the provincial government. Talking to the media, he highlighted that where there is no dearth of ...

LAHORE (August 4, 2022): Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi congratulated young weightlifter Nooh Dastgir Butt for winning Pakistan’s first gold medal in the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 at Birmingham.   In his greeting message on Thursday, Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi said definitely it was a joyous moment for Pakistan. Talented weightlifter Nooh Dastgir Butt lived ...

The dates for the weightlifting at Paris 2024 have been confirmed with the Olympic competition set for 7-11 August 2024. The five-day competition will take place at the South Paris Arena 6 and see weightlifting as one of the sports which brings the Games to a close. On the final day of Paris 2024, weightlifting, along with wrestling and track ...

An emergency meeting of the Albanian Weightlifting Federation (AWF) has suspended one of the nation’s top lifters for life after he tested positive for cocaine at the National Championships. His coach has been banned for five years and the AWF, which has been beset by doping problems in recent years, has warned all other weightlifters that from now on anyone ...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has banned the former Paralympic champion Para powerlifter Esther Oyema for four years after she committed an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). The Nigerian, who won gold at London 2012 in the Women’s 48kg, returned an adverse analytical finding for a prohibited substance in a urine sample provided on 28 January 2019 after competing at the ...

Dubai: Midfielder of Pakistan women football team, Zulfia Nazir, has now set her eyes on winning laurels in the sport of powerlifting after winning gold medal in Dubai. Zulfia, who represented the Pakistan women football team in the SAFF Women Championship in 2014, is currently in Dubai where she has been playing football for a local club and works as ...

Pakistani-Australian powerlifter Maryam Nasim, who had sustained a back injury earlier, defied all odds and secured a bronze medal at the Avia Powerlifting competition on Sunday. Avia Powerlifting competition, which is being held under Powerlifting Australian and approved by the International Powerlifting Federation, invites powerlifters from diverse nationalities residing across Australia. Maryam, who won a Silver medal last year, participated ...