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16 Apr 2020

IWF chief Tamas Ajan resigns amid corruption probe

International Weightlifting Federation president Tamas Ajan has stepped down from his role after 43 years of service in the organisation amid the ongoing investigation into alleged corruption.

03 Jun 2018

Manipur CM writes to Rathore to intervene in Sanjita doping controversy

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today sought the intervention of Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore in the doping controversy involving Commonwealth Games gold medallist Sanjit Chanu while also suggesting that there could be an error in the identification

01 Jun 2018

CWG gold medallist Sanjita Chanu cries foul after failing dope test

"I can't believe that I have tested positive because I haven't taken anything myself."

31 May 2018

CWG gold medallist Sanjita Chanu fails dope test

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said on its website that Sanjita, who had won a gold in the women's 53kg category in the recent Gold Coast CWG, has tested positive for testosterone.

13 Jan 2017

Doping charges: Three Chinese weightlifters stripped of 2008 Olympic gold by IOC

The Chinese trio, all aged between 31 and 34, tested positive for the banned GHRP-2, a human growth hormone.

11 Oct 2016

Yogeshwar Dutt gets engaged, to tie the knot on January 16 next year

Chairman of the Indian Wrestling Foundation (IWF) Brij Bhushan Sharan was also present at the occasion along with AAP Haryana state chief Naveen Jaihind.

25 Aug 2016

China faces 1-year ban from weightlifting over doping

China is the world's dominant country in weightlifting, having topped the medal table at every Olympics since 2000.

24 Aug 2016

International Weightlifting federation names 15 re-test doping failures

"The IWF imposed mandatory provisional suspensions upon the athletes," the Lausanne, Switzerland-based federation said in a statement.

07 Aug 2016

Taiwanese weightlifter Hsu Shu-ching demands London gold after Rio win

Hsu pipped Chinese favourite Li Yajun to first place in the women`s 53kg class, four years after she was undone by Kazakh lifter Zulfiya Chinshanlo who later failed a doping test.

Russian athletics

23 Jun 2016

Rio Games: Russia faces ban from Olympic weightlifting over doping offences

The IWF executive announced this month that 20 suspicious cases had been found in retests of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics in Beijing and London.

14 May 2016

Rio Olympics 2016: Sushil Kumar may move court if trial not called

Sushil has already taken the matter to the doorsteps of Prime Minister's Office but is yet to get a response from the government.

17 Dec 2015

Indian Weightlifting Federation says tainted lifters got supplements from outside: Report

The tainted trio of Geeta Devi, Manpreet Kaur and Harkirat Kaur, had purchased food supplements from a shop in Ludhiana.

20 Nov 2015

Bulgarian weightlifters banned from Rio Olympics

IWF made the decision Thursday to give out the punishment after 11 Bulgarian weightlifters were tested positive for doping earlier this year.

Indian Weightlifting Federation

17 Nov 2015

IWF forms five-member committee to look into dope scandal

Three positive results in a calendar year lead to a one-year ban of the national federation.

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