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NEW DELHI,
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Jamjang Deru gave India its first medal in the world youth weightlifting championships, winning the silver in the 50 kg boys’ category at Tashkent on Monday.
Deru won the silver in clean...
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NEW DELHI,
Friday, March 22, 2013
The Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) has suspended a junior lifter, Shubham Verma, for allegedly harassing three sub-junior girls at NIS, Patiala.According to IWLF secretary general S...
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Geneva,
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Russian weightlifter Oleg Perepetchenov was stripped of his 77kg bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games for taking prohibited substances.The executive board of the International Olym...
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January 31, 2013
At 37, Karnam Malleswari seems to have developed interest in numbers even as there were reports that a film was being planned on her. For, this 2000 Sydney Olympics bronze medallist in weightliftin...
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MODINAGAR (UTTAR PRADESH),
January 10, 2013
Chandrakant Mali smashed three records while claiming his fourth title in the National weightlifting championship at the SRM University campus here on Wednesday.
Mali, who was matchless i...
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NEW DELHI,
November 16, 2012
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has been forced to revert to the two-year ban for first-time dope offenders following a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in an ap...
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Kozhikode,
September 7, 2012
Sandep S Awari of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh’s Vandana Dubey clinched the gold medals in the 93 kg and 63 kg class respectively, with the latter setting three national records in the Senior Nat...
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August 18, 2012
Iran celebrates its athletes who have done well in a sport that has ancient roots.
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LONDON,
August 2, 2012
Weightlifter K. Ravi Kumar finished 15th with a total lift of 303kg in the men’s 69kg section in the Olympics at the ExCel Arena, here on Tuesday.
Loin Qingfeng of China took the gold wit...
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LONDON,
August 1, 2012
Weightlifter K. Ravi Kumar was placed sixth in group ‘B’ after lifting a total of 303 kg in the men’s 69 kg section at the ExCel Arena on Tuesday.
The 24-year-old Ravi had a 136 kg in sna...
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LONDON,
July 29, 2012
China could strengthen its grip on the Olympic weightlifting competition Sunday after Wang Mingjuan’s gold medal in the opening event. Double world champion Wu Jingbiao is the front—runn...
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London,
July 28, 2012
They are returning to the Olympics after eight years and more than the medals, the Indian weightlifters would feel the pressure of staying clear of the dope taint which has haunted the country in...
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New Delhi,
July 21, 2012
Karnam Malleshwari’s bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics raised the profile of Indian weightlifting by several notches but little is expected of London-bound Soniya Chanu and the lifter does not min...
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MODINAGAR (UTTAR PRADESH),
January 11, 2013
Manpreet Kaur of All India Police rode on her clean and jerk performance to claim the women’s +75kg gold medal on the concluding day of the National weightlifting championship at the SRM Universit...
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MODINAGAR (UTTAR PRADESH),
January 9, 2013
Nineteen-year-old Vikas Thakur gave a commanding performance to claim his maiden National title in the National weightlifting championship at the SRM University campus here on Tuesday.Power...
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New Delhi,
November 9, 2012
Ragala Venkat Rahul won three gold medals to help India increase their medals tally to seven on the second day of the 14th Asian Youth (Boys & Girls) Weightlifting Championships at Yangon, Mya...
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NEW DELHI,
September 1, 2012
Eight lifters will represent the country in the youth world weightlifting championships to be held at Kosice, Slovakia, from September 15-23.
The team:
Boys: 56kg:...
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London,
August 5, 2012
China’s Zhou Lulu added to China’s ever-growing gold medal tally at the London Games on Sunday, winning the women’s over-75 kilogramme weightlifting competition with a world record. Zhou se...
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London,
August 1, 2012
A day after celebrating its first medal from the Games, India’s campaign here stuttered on Tuesday despite shuttler Parupalli Kashyap pulling off a remarkable upset while boxer Laishram Devendro Si...
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LONDON,
July 29, 2012
North Korea’s Om Yun Chol on Sunday joined an exclusive group of weightlifters who have lifted three times their body weight. Om, who stands just 1.52 meters tall, also set an Olympic re...
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LONDON,
July 28, 2012
The International Olympic Committee on Saturday barred Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku in the first official doping ban after the start of the London Games. The IOC said Pulaku tested...
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HYDERABAD,
July 26, 2012
She continues to be the only Indian woman to win an Olympic medal
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July 21, 2012
It is an irony that the finest amateur boxer of all time, whose dominance in the heavyweight division is part of Olympic lore, had to die just a month before the London Olympics, which is scheduled...
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