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Ilya Ilyin wins gold at IV Weightlifting Spartakiad of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan’s weightlifter and four-time world champion Ilya Ilyin has won gold at the IV Weightlifting Spartakiad of Kazakhstan.
13 October 2015
17-year-old Kazakh weightlifter becomes world champion
Kazakhstan’s weightlifter Tatyana Kapustina won gold in +69 kg at the IWF World Youth Championship in Peru.
15 April 2015
Doping scandal at World Weightlifting Championship in Astana: 8 weightlifters await B sample analysis
A doping scandal has erupted after The 2014 World Weightlifting Championships that was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on November 8-16.
14 December 2014
Kazakh athlete finishes sixth at World Weightlifting Championship in Almaty
Kazakh weightlifter Karina Goricheva ended up in the sixth place at the World Weightlifting Championship in Almaty.
18 November 2014
Kazakhstan's Ilya Ilyin becomes four-time World Champion
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 November 2014
Kazakh athletes win gold and silver at World Weightlifting Championship in Almaty
Kazakhstan’s weightlifters Zhassulan Kydyrbayev and Vladimir Sedov has clinched two medals at the World Weightlifting Championship.
17 November 2014
Kazakhstan's Svetlana Podobedova misses World Weightlifting Championship
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 November 2014
Eight reigning Olympic champions to take part in World Weightlifting Championship in Almaty
Eight reigning Olympic champions will take part in the World Weightlifting Championship that is taking place in Almaty on November 8-16, 2014.
08 November 2014
Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan 99.9% sure about getting 4th World Championship gold
Kazakhstani weightlifter Ilya Iliyn is 99.9% positive that he will win the gold medal at the 2014 World Weightlifting Championship in Almaty.
23 July 2014
Universiade champion from Kazakhstan charged with doping
A champion weightlifter of the Summer Universiade in Kazan Farkhad Kharki has been charge with committing a doping-related offence.
11 March 2014
Crane drops 40-ton container on taxi in Almaty
An unusual accident involving very bad math and very lucky people has happened in Almaty.
01 February 2014
Resident of Almaty oblast, 76, sets Guinness World Record in kettlebell lifting
76-y.o. resident of Almaty oblast has set a world record and has been included into the Guinness Book of World Records.
16 December 2013
Airline's pay-by-weight fares take off with passengers
The head of a tiny Pacific airline that pioneered a fare system based on passengers' weight said Wednesday the move had been so successful the carrier is upgrading its fleet.
11 December 2013
Boxing: Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin ready to lose weight to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The star boxer from Kazakhstan Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin is ready to move to a new weight division to face the American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.
27 November 2013
New weight loss surgery made in Almaty
A professor from Lithuania has made an advanced weight loss surgery in Almaty.
22 November 2013
Obesity linked to early onset of puberty in US girls
Girls of all races are entering puberty earlier than ever before, and US research out Monday suggests that obesity may a contributing factor, particularly in white girls.
05 November 2013
US teens' dangerous obsession with 'thigh gap'
It's the latest weight loss craze among American teens striving to emulate the models they see in magazines: the "thigh gap", in which slender legs, when standing with feet together, do not touch.
01 October 2013
55% in Kazakhstan are overweight
More than a half of the Kazakhstan population have excess weight.
25 September 2013
Plus-size women in focus, in NY fashion week first
Full-figured women had their day on the catwalks of New York on Friday when hometown designer Eden Miller unveiled her plus-size collection -- a fashion week first.
07 September 2013
Young Australians getting fatter: study
Young Australians have a reputation for being fit and enjoying a sporty, outdoorsy lifestyle, but research released Monday found they are stacking on more weight than any other age group.
19 August 2013