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Mohammad Ali Falahatinejad passed away

Mohammad Ali Falahatinejad former Iranian weightlifter was born on July 15, 1976 in Tehran dies at the age of 41. He was hospitalized in Tehran’s Omid Hospital last week after he was diagnosed with a bad kidney infection. Falahatinejad finished third in the men’s 77kg bodyweight category at the 2002 Asian Games Busan, South Korea. He claimed the second place in the same bodyweight category at the 2003 Asian Weightlifting Championships in Qinhuangdao, China and won his Gold Medal in the men's 77 kg bodyweight category the same year in 2003 World Weightlifting Championships in Vancouver, Canada, with a Total of 357,5 kg. The burial ceremony for the Iranian weightlifter was held in the Luminaries' Section of Behesht-e Zahra, Iran’s largest cemetery located in southern Tehran, on Tuesday. The IWF presents its sincere condolences to the Family of Mr. Mohammad Ali Falahatinejad as well as to the Iranian Weightlifting Federation. Source: Press TV

Rio 2016: Lasha TALAKHADZE (GEO) M+105kg became Olympic Champion exactly 1 year ago!

“It’s easier to lift a big weight than to carry the meaning of the gold medal.” Live through the fantastic weightlifting competitions again: Men

Rio 2016: Ruslan NURUDINOV (UZB) M105kg became Olympic Champion exactly 1 year ago!

“I wanted to lift much more. I wanted 243kg because I could lift 240kg in training.” Live through the fantastic weightlifting competitions again: Men

Rio 2016: Suping MENG (CHN) W+75kg became Olympic Champion exactly 1 year ago!

“I think this is my duty for my country and my party and once I received this duty I pursued it” Live through the fantastic weightlifting competitions again: Women

Students from 52 nations to compete in weightlifting at the 2017 Taipei Universiade

One week prior to the start of the competitions at the 2017 Summer Universiade, weightlifting looks to significant FISU Games with record participation. 52 Stucountries have entered nearly 300 competitors to vie for the Universiade titles and medals in Taipei City. Among the athletes we can find 15 Olympic champions or Olympic medal winners and 14 World Championships medallists. Those most prominent highlighting the Universiade events are undoubtedly the double Olympic Champions (2012 and 2016)  Shu-Ching HSU, TPE, the local superstar in the women's 53kg; Jong Sim RIM, PRK in the women's 75kg; or  Yun Chol OM, PRK in the men's 56kg, who took gold in the 2012 London Games and a silver in Rio 2016. Thailand's team will also be studded with their Olympic and world champions like Sopita TANASANand  Sukanya SRISURAT. Two former Universiade champions are hoping to defend their titles, while 27 World University Championship medal winners want to score success in this  field promising to be tougher than ever before at university level. TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — TPE athlete  Hsing-chun KUO, the gold medallist in the Asian Weightlifting Championship 2017 women's 58 kg event, held the torch of the 2017 Universiade when it arrived to the city on its tour in Chinese Taipei. As one of weightlifting athletes in TPE national team, Kuo hopes to break the record she made at the 2013 Universiade in Kazan and keep the gold medal in home.

Rio 2016: Sohrab MORADI (IRI) M94kg became Olympic Champion exactly 1 year ago!

“I trained for two years at my own home. People always asked me why I was training and I knew why I was training. I had a goal.” Live through the fantastic weightlifting competitions again: Men