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Iranian woman weightlifter Bajelani banned for doping 24 May 2022

Iranian woman weightlifter Bajelani banned for doping

Iranian woman weightlifter Elnaz Bajelani has been banned for three years after admitting an anti-doping rule violation.

Iranian weightlifter Moradi nominated for lifter of the year 09 Jan 2019

Iranian weightlifter Moradi nominated for lifter of the year

Sohrab Moradi from Iran has been nominated for the Best Male Lifter in 2018 by the International Weightlifting Federation. The Iranian weightlifter has had an incredible 2018 competitive season. In August, he blew the weightlifting community’s mind with his 189kg world record snatch in the -94kg weight class. Then in November at the IWF World […]

Iran’s Yousefi wins weightlifting gold by great comeback 14 Oct 2018

Iran’s Yousefi wins weightlifting gold by great comeback

Iranian junior weightlifter Alireza Yousefi defeated his Bulgarian rival in a stunning comeback and won the gold medal at 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In men’s +85kg category, which was held on Saturday, Yousefi lifted 150kg, 156kg and 162kg in his three attempts in the snacth. This is while Bulgaria’s Hristo Hristov […]

Iran’s Moradi breaks world weightlifting record 25 Aug 2018

Iran’s Moradi breaks world weightlifting record

Iranian weightlifter Sohrab Moradi broke the world record in the snatch of 94kg category by successfully raising 189 kilograms. In the seventh day of 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, 2016 Olympics champion lifted 185kg in his first move of snatch to secure his first place in the ranking table. Then, as announced before, he attacked […]

Iranian weightlifters to leave for US 23 Nov 2017

Iranian weightlifters to leave for US

National Iranian weightlifters plan to attend world weightlifting championships has been postponed to next Saturday due to the US embassy in Dubai being temporarily closed. After some of the weightlifters of the national Iranian team obtained visas to attend world weightlifting championship, their trip has been delayed due to the US embassy in Dubai being […]