IRNA Poupak Basami, Iranian woman taking part in the 2019 IWF World Championships in Pattaya, Thailand, broke her national records and stood at the sixth place. This is the first time in Iran's history that women like Basami and her teammates have attended the World Weightlifting Championships. It was in 2017 that the Iranian Weightlifting Federation ...

Iran Front Page - Although weightlifting has always been one of Irans medal-winning fields in the Olympic Games and Asian Games, almost all Iranians consider this as a male-dominated sport. But now the taboo is being broken. With the emphasis of the International Weightlifting Federation and the Iranian federations consultation with the Ministry ...

Tasnim Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani offered his congratulations to the national weightlifting team over their success at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in Turkmenistan. In a message released on Sunday, Larijani praised the Iranian national weightlifting team for ranking third at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in ...

MNA Iranian weight lifters who faced difficulties in obtaining visas, are still being deliberately delayed in the US. Shortly after Iranian national weight lifting team arrived in LEX airport, the Iranian weight lifter Sohrab Moradi was stopped at the passport check stands and was transferred to the airport police department for investigations ...

Sputnik - Four members from the Iranian delegation have been denied entry visas to attend the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation World Championships, set to run in Anaheim, California between November 28 and December 6. Sputnik spoke to an Iranian sports official about the cause of the incident. Phil Andrews, chief executive ofUSA ...

Tasnim Irans Mohammadreza Barari took a gold medal in the mens 105 kg weightlifting competition at the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku on Wednesday. Barari lifted the 175kg in the snatch and 220kg in the clean and jerk and won the gold medal for a total of 395kg. Iraqi lifter Salwan Al-Aifuri claimed a silver medal by lifting a total ...

Rio, Sept 13, IRNA Iranian athlete of Paralympics weightlifting team Majid Farzin in 80-kilogram weight category won gold medal on Monday. Farzin also managed to break the world and Paralympics records three times in Rio 2016 competitions on Monday. The Iranian squad left Iran last Thursday to take part in the Rio 2016 Paralympics Games. Iran's ...

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 17, IRNA Head of Iran Weightlifting Federation Ali Moradi said that the Jury's 'unjust' decision against Iranian weightlifter Behdad Salimi Kordasiabi will certainly be recoded in the history. Referring to the jury's decision to overturn the referees' green light to Salimi's lift, Moradi said, 'It was cruelty and they didn't want ...