Former athlete Shiny Wilson and former weightlifter Kunjarani Devi during a conference on "Women and Sports in India" on the occasion of International Women's Day, in New Delhi.
Leidy Yessenia Solis Arboleda, of Colombia, celebrates after a lift in the women's 69kg weightlifting competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Oscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera, of Colombia, weeps after winning the gold medal in the men's 62kg weightlifting competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Assam's Jameer Hussain wins gold medal in the 94kg category with a lift of 326kg in the Weightlifting event of the National Games in Thrissur.
Combo image: President Pranab Mukherjee presents Dronacharya Award 2014 (anti-clockwise) to Mahabir Prasad (wrestling), N Lingappa (athletics), Gurcharan Singh Gogi (judo), G Mano...
Combo image from right to left: President Pranab Mukherjee presents Arjuna Award 2014 to Yumanam Renu Bala Chanu (weightlifting), Heena Sidhu (shooting), Tintu Luka (athletics), An...
Chandrakant Dadu Mali of India lifts188kg to win bronze in the Men's 94kg weightlifting competition at the Scottish Exhibition Conference Centre during the Commonwealth Games 2014 ...
Vikas Thakur with his silver medal during the medal ceremony of the Men's Weightlifting 85kg category event at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre during the Commonwealth...
Vikas Thakur after finishing second in the Men's Weightlifting 85kg category event at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, during the Commonwealth Games2014 in Glasgow, S...
India's Sathish Sivalingam wins a gold medal in the Men's Weightlifting 77kg category during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games at Scottish Exhibition And Conference Centre in Gla...
Ravi Katulu of India wins silver(left), Sathish Sivalingam(centre) of India wins gold and Francois Etoundi of Australia wins bronze in the Men's Weightlifting 77kg category during ...
Nigerian Silver medalist Yinka Ayenuwa (L), Gold medalist Mohd Hafifi Mansor of Malaysia and Indian Bronze medalist Omkar Otari with their medals after the Men's 69kg weightlifting...
Santoshi Matsa of India with her bronze medal for the women's 53 kg weightlifting competition at the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014, in Glasgow, Scotland.
India's Sukhen Dey celebrates after winning gold medal in the 56-kg men's weightlifting event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
Gold medal winner India's Sukhen Dey celebrates after the men's 56 kg weightlifting event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
India's Gold medal winner Sukhen Dey and Bronze medal winner Ganesh Mali pose after the men's 56 kg weightlifting event during the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
India's gold medalist Sanjita Khumukcham during the medal presentation ceremony of 48-kg women's weightlifting event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
India's Chanu Saikhom completes a lift during the 48-kg women's weightlifting event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
India's Sanjita Khumukcham completes a lift during the 48-kg women's weightlifting event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
Kim Un Guk of North Korea competes during the men's 62-kg weightlifting competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London.
India established early dominance in the weightlifting competition by grabbing three gold medals on the
The Indian team ended its campaign in the 2015 Commonwealth Youth, Junior & Senior weightlifting championships on a hi
A 20-year-old Indian-American has won junior title at the latest US Powerlifting Association National Championships.
The Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has decided to impose a two-year ban on the coaches of all those weightlifters w
In what could be termed as one of the biggest doping scandals in recent years, as many as 21 weightlifters have been provi
Nine sporting disciplines -- including athletics, hockey and shooting -- were today upgraded to the newly-introduced 'high
Weightlifter Jimjang Deru of Arunachal Pradesh created a national record by lifting 238 kgs in the under 56 kg category at
Mohin Chavan and Manalisha Sonowal grabbed a gold medal each in the 17th Asian Youth (Boys & Girls) and 22nd Junior Wo
Superheavyweight Olympic champion Zhou Lulu hoisted the largest single weight ever by a woman to give China a seventh Asia
Taiwan's Lin Tzu-chi broke two world records to snatch gold from China's Deng Wei in the women's 63kg at the Asian Games a
