There were triumphs for Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia on a day at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships which saw a former top-level ice hockey player from the United States win medals in the sport she took up full-time just two years ago.

An American weightlifter who was delayed for 20 hours in a severe storm en-route to Miami, and had to sleep in a concrete basement, recovered from her ordeal to win a medal on the first day of the Pan American Weightlifting Championships here. 

Fernando Reis, Brazil’s most famous weightlifter, has claimed he will sue the President of his own National Federation because of a selection row that has threatened his participation in the Pan American Championships - due to start here today - and the World Championships.

Nearly 300 athletes are set to compete in the 2017 Pan American Weightlifting Championships which begin at the Miccosukee Resort in Miami tomorrow. 

On a day when their best young weightlifter Clarence "CJ" Cummings won his fourth world title, the United States gave a rallying cry of support to the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) leadership.

A conspiracy and a tainted dessert have been blamed by senior sports officials in Egypt for a weightlifting doping scandal that involves girls too young to be named.

Several supporters of Antonio Urso have been ousted from the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) Executive Board after the Italian failed to beat Tamás Aján in the race to become President at the Electoral Congress here in Bangkok.

A new member of the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) Executive Board is hoping to use her wealth of expertise in coaching to good effect after being elected.

Ursula Papandrea has become the first woman ever to sit as a vice-president of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after being elected here.

Tamás Aján has today been re-elected for a fifth term as President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after defeating main rival Antonio Urso in the vote here.

Thirty years ago there had never been a Women's World Championship in weightlifting. 

Weightlifters who have been disqualified from podium positions at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games for testing positive could damage their countries’ future prospects if they fail to return the medals as part of the sport's new anti-doping policy.

The Italian candidate Antonio Urso has made one last push in his campaign to be elected President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) by setting out his plans for a new system of Olympic qualification, based on individual rather than national performance.

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamas Ajan, the Hungarian who has been in key roles at the governing body for more than 40 years, says he still has the energy and vitality to take the sport through a challenging period of change over the next four years.