Weight Lifting

Nooh Butt in action during Commonwealth Games 2018 Pakistan added another medal to its tally in the Commonwealth Games on Monday when Nooh Dastagir Butt won the Bronze medal in +105kg weightlifting competition. 20-year-old Nooh, who last year won the silver medal in Commonwealth weightlifting championship, lifted an overall 395kg to win the medal for the country. After lifting 173kg ...

Pakistani weightlifter Talha Talib won bronze medal in 62kg weightlifting category at the Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast:-Weightlifter Talha Talib clinched the first medal for Pakistan at the Commonwealth Games 2018, which got under way in Gold Coast, Australia from today. Talha Talib won the bronze medal in the 62kg category, lifting a total of 283kg. He also established a ...

LAHORE: Inaugural Chief Executive Railways national women powerlifting championship will be held here from March 20 under the aegis of Pakistan Railways Sports Board at Railways stadium. “Country’s top women powerlifting players will be exhibiting their lifting ability and prowess in the competition which aims at further promoting the game among women folk”, said Sheikh Muhammad Anwar, organizing secretary of the ...

Baghdad- The weightlifters on Iraq’s national women’s team train hard every day, both to bring home the medals and to help ease the financial burden of running a home. Jerking weights heavier than themselves at a rundown gym in Baghdad’s conservative Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City, the young women and girls come together for three hours every day. The girls ...