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Eight weightlifters who previously served doping bans have won medals at Rio, while others have been sent home for failed tests.

• 15 августа 2016, 15:25

Germany's weightlifting coach has called for seven countries, including Kazakhstan, to be banned from international competition/

• 11 августа 2016, 17:51

Overshadowed by the Russian Olympic doping scandal, the sport of weightlifting has been waging its own battle against drug cheats.

• 02 августа 2016, 17:04

Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus are to be suspended for one year by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

• 23 июня 2016, 14:44

Kazakhstan's double Olympic champion Ilya Ilyin and three other gold medalists banned for failing dope tests at the 2012 London Olympics

• 16 июня 2016, 17:15

Kazakhstan’s weightlifter and four-time world champion Ilya Ilyin has won gold at the IV Weightlifting Spartakiad of Kazakhstan.

• 13 октября 2015, 20:59

Ilya Iliyn, Kazakhstan's most celebrated weightlifter, has authored another World Record.

• 25 августа 2015, 17:48

Kazakhstani Ilya Ilyin, recognized as the best weightlifter of 2014, will receive the Jeno Boskovic Trophy at the special ceremony in Astana

• 16 апреля 2015, 19:41

Kazakhstan’s weightlifter Tatyana Kapustina won gold in +69 kg at the IWF World Youth Championship in Peru.

• 15 апреля 2015, 19:10

The coach of the two times Olympic Champion Ilya Iliyn and Yerzhan Boltayev has been appointed the head coach of the Kazakhstan’s weightlifting team.

• 19 февраля 2015, 01:16

Four times World Champion and two times Olympics champion in weightlifting Ilya Ilyin has taken a selfie with President Nazarbayev.

• 19 декабря 2014, 15:58

A doping scandal has erupted after The 2014 World Weightlifting Championships that was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on November 8-16.

• 14 декабря 2014, 13:35

Weightlifter Zhazira Zhapparkul brought Kazakhstan a bronze medal in snatch at the IWF World Championships in Almaty.

• 19 ноября 2014, 18:33

Kazakh weightlifter Karina Goricheva ended up in the sixth place at the World Weightlifting Championship in Almaty.

• 18 ноября 2014, 18:18

Kazakhstani weightlifter Zhazira Zhapparkul has won a silver medal in the women’s -69 kg weight category at the World Weightlifting Championship in Almaty.

• 18 ноября 2014, 16:27

Kazakh weightlifter and two-time Olympic Champion Ilya Ilyin has won a gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championship, thus becoming a four-time World Champion.

• 17 ноября 2014, 23:12

Kazakhstan’s weightlifters Zhassulan Kydyrbayev and Vladimir Sedov has clinched two medals at the World Weightlifting Championship.

• 17 ноября 2014, 22:53

Kazakhstan's Olympic champion of 2012 London Games has hauled a gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championship that is taking place in Almaty.

• 12 ноября 2014, 21:03

Two-times World Champion and London 2012 Olympic Champion Svetlana Podobedova of Kazakhstan is unable to take part in the World Weightlifting Championship in Almaty.

• 12 ноября 2014, 12:16

Eight reigning Olympic champions will take part in the World Weightlifting Championship that is taking place in Almaty on November 8-16, 2014.

• 08 ноября 2014, 17:53