Weight Lifting

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 ...

A world record was obliterated by a 10kg difference as three more champions were crowned on day seven of the World Championships in Tbilisi (Saturday 4 December). Jordan’s Abdelkareem Khattab made headlines in the second event of Super Saturday with an outstanding performance in the men’s up to 88kg. Not only was he the outright winner – cushioning himself with ...

A Nigerian in a league of her own and a Chinese who dethroned the Paralympic champion took the World Championships to new heights on day six at Tbilisi 2021 on Friday (3 December). The first final of the day was filled with talent and buzzed with excitement.  Whilst five athletes were fighting for silver, one was fighting to break the ...

It was a gripping shootout for the medals as Iran topped the podium in the final two individual events of the World Para Powerlifting Championships in Tbilisi on Sunday (5 December). The Asian country showed that the legacy of the late Siamand Rahman lives on with powerful performances in the heavyweight categories collecting four out of the six medals up ...

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 ...

LAHORE: Pakistani weightlifters returned home after winning bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Weightlifters Nooh Dastagir Butt and Taha Talib won bronze for Pakistan at this year games. Twenty-year-old Nooh Dastagir Butt won the Bronze medal in +105kg weightlifting competition while Taha Talib won a Bronze in men’s 62kg weightlifting competition. After lifting 173kg in snatch, Nooh successfully ...