For a third-straight Olympics, Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze won the gold medal in the heaviest weightlifting division.
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Eileen Cikamatana and her coach Paul Coffa came to Paris with high hopes of a medal, but she finished fourth after two failed lifts in the clean and jerk.
Roger Vaughan
Long-time Australian coach Paul Coffa says Eileen Cikamatana has the same qualities that took Dean Lukin to an Olympic weightlifting gold medal.
Raising the bar takes new shape in Kyle Bruce's Olympic dreams after a decisive lift at the Commonwealth Games cost him a golden medal.
Belad Al-karkhey
Chance is not a word in Megan Clark’s vocabulary; everything Australia’s strongest woman under-82kg achieves is down to her.
Ben Smith
It was a tight, cagey affair in the Hockeyroos semi-final with India that was decided with a controversial shootout, while an Australian medal fancy has been left devastated by injury.
Two of Nigeria's powerlifting gold-medal favourites at the Com Games have been disqualified for turning up late for an event won by England's Zoe Newson.
Charisma Precious Amoe-Tarrant, who won a weightlifting medal for Nauru in 2018, has now hoisted another as Australia's strongest woman.
Ian Chadband
Weightlifter Eileen Cikamatana, who switched from Fiji to Australia four years ago, is the first woman to win Commonwealth Games gold medals for two countries.
Olympic and Commonwealth champion Maude Charron is impressed with Australian 64kg silver medallist Sarah Cochrane.
Australian weightlifter Kyle Bruce has been sensationally denied a gold medal by officials after he was deemed to have used an illegal technique.
Australian Kyle Bruce was denied an 81kg weightlifting gold medal after his final lift was overturned by judges, while Sarah Cochrane also won 64kg silver.
Steve Jancetic and Roger Vaughan
Australian Brenna Kean finished fifth in the women's 59kg weightlifting event at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Steve Jancetic
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld appeals from three Russian officials, clearing them to contest International Weightlifting Federation elections
In just two years, WA’s Suamili Nanai has gone from weightlifting rookie to one of the super-heavyweights to watch in the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games in July - all on the back of his Christian faith
Steve Butler
After winning Commonwealth Games gold for Fiji in 2018, Eileen Cikamatana will attempt to repeat that feat for Australia in Birmingham.
Anna Harrington
Akbar Djuraev claimed weightlifting gold for Uzbekistan in the men's 109kg category as Australia's Matthew Lydement lifted a personal best in the B division.
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Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard says she looks forward to her next "career as a pub quiz question" after becoming the first trans woman to compete at the Olympics.
Ben McKay
New Zealand's transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard failed all three attempts in what was an early exit in her Olympics debut on Monday.
Murray Wenzel
China's 37-year-old Lyu Xiaojun has claimed victory in the 81kg category at Tokyo, becoming the oldest man to win an Olympic weightlifting gold medal.
As she prepares to become the first openly transgender athlete to compete at a Games, Kiwi Laurel Hubbard has thanked the IOC for their inclusive policies.
The International Olympic Committee's medical chief says there is a lot more to learn about advantages and disadvantages for transgender athletes in sport.
Karolos Grohmann
Brandon Wakeling has become the second Indigenous Australian to lift at an Olympics, finishing 13th in the men's 73kg division at the Tokyo Games.
Rob Forsaith
Australian weightlifters Erika Yamasaki and Kiana Elliott weren't in the medal hunt, with Taiwan's Kuo Hsing-Chun breaking Olympic records en route to gold.
Melissa Woods
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