Hadi Choopan Wins Again, Mattie Rogers Out of Olympic Contention — Strength Weekly 3/22
Strength weekly is bringing you everything you need to know from around the barbell game! This week, we’re covering: Hadi Choopan Wins 2024 Arnold Classic UK Mattie Rogers’ “Soul-Crushing” Injury Ends Her 2024 Paris Olympic Games Hopes Victoria Long Retires From Competitive Strongwoman Mitchell Hooper on the Value of Body Composition in Strongman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjiPdXFQvycVideo can’t […]
Mattie Rogers’ “Soul-Crushing” Injury Ends Her 2024 Paris Olympic Games Hopes
Mattie Rogers has withdrawn from campaigning for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in August because of a painful and “soul-crushing” injury. Rogers, who lifted at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, announced her decision on social media, saying she will focus on local and national meets until her planned return to the international stage at the 2024 […]
Watch 19-Year-Old World Record Holder Karlos Nasar Squat 280KG (617.2LBS)
If you follow weightlifting, you know who Karlos Nasar is. The 19-year-old Bulgarian prodigy is at the top of the sport right now, having claimed multiple world records well before his 20th birthday. A large part of his success on the weightlifting platform is owed to his extraordinary raw strength, and nowhere is that more […]
Olympic Medalist Zacarias Bonnat Receives 4-Year Ban for Doping After ‘Erectile Dysfunction’ Plea Fails
Weightlifter from the Dominican Republic Zacarias Bonnat, an Olympic medallist who sat on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board briefly in 2022, has been banned from weightlifting for four years for a doping offense. Bonnat tested positive in an out-of-competition test on Nov. 13, 2022, for the androgen receptor SARMS RAD140, a prohibited substance […]
21 Doping Cases of Young Turkish Weightlifters; Fallout Drags on 12 Years Later
In 2022, Dr. Tamas Ajan and Olympic champion Nicolae “Nicu” Vlad were banned from weightlifting’s bureaucracy for life, one year after being charged with “tampering and collusion” in the now-famous McLaren report. Alongside them was Hasan Akkus, then-president of the Turkish Weightlifting Federation (TWF). In Jan. 2023, Akkus was banned from the sport’s governance for […]
2024 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Full Results
2024 is starting off with a bang for fans of weightlifting. February has hosted four different continental championships in a row as the Paris 2024 Olympic Games draw ever closer. This year, the Pan American Weightlifting Championships (PAWC) are being held in Caracas, Venezuela, from Feb. 23 to 29. This event will help decide the […]
Laura Horvath Takes 7th at 2024 European Weightlifting Championships
The 2024 European Weightlifting Championships have just concluded in Sofia, Bulgaria, and among the world’s strongest athletes in the competition was none other than 2023’s Fittest Woman on Earth, Laura Horvath. Just four months ago, Horvath won the 2023 Hungarian Weightlifting National Championship in the 76kg weight category with a total of 215 kilograms: 95-kilogram […]
IWF General Secretary Antonio Urso To Retire From Weightlifting
Antonio Urso, one of the leading campaigners against corruption in weightlifting over the past three decades, and overseer of Italy’s recent rise to prominence on the weightlifting platform, is leaving the sport. Urso announced his decision at the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria, which was held alongside the 2024 European Weightlifting Championships […]
World Record Holder Lasha Talakhadze Suffers Knee Injury, Withdraws From 2024 European Weightlifting Championships
In a historic turn, weightlifter and seven-time European Champion Lasha Talakhadze (+109KG, GEO) withdrew from the final day of the 2024 European Weightlifting Championships (EWC) as he reportedly nurses a minor knee injury. This is the first time Talakhadze has retracted his name from a major weightlifting meet in his career, which began in 2010. […]
World Record 1,053 Pound Squat (and What If Tom Haviland Did Strongman)? — Strength Weekly 2/16
Strength weekly is bringing you everything you need to know from around the barbell game! This week, we’re covering: Sheffield Insanity: Powerlifting Records Fall Jesus Olivares (+120KG) Sets IPF Raw Squat World Record of 478 Kilograms at 2024 Sheffield Mitchell Hooper Thinks Tom Haviland Can Win the World’s Strongest Man HYROX to Expand to Canada […]