Indian Weightlifters

• Year 2010: Below-par performance by Indian lifters

  Dope menace ebbed a bit in Indian weightlifting but the country's lifters produced below-par performances in the two multi-sporting events of the year - Commonwealth Games and Asian Games - in which they were allowed to take part only after paying a hefty fine to the international parent body.

• Lifters Chanu, Rani dedicate medals to crisis-ridden Manipur

  Weightlifters Soniya Chanu and Sandhya Rani, who won a silver and a bronze respectively in the women's 48 kg class in the Commonwealth Games, on Tuesday dedicated their medals to crisis-ridden Manipur, hoping that peace would soon return to the insurgency-hit state.Part of the Indian contingent that won two silver and two bronze in the men's and wo...

• Lifter Soniya aims good show in CWG to boost Asiad chances

  Tipped to win a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games, top Indian woman weightlifter Soniya Chanu on Tuesday said a good show in the mega event will be a confidence booster for the Asian Games in China.

• Indian lifters will win at least four golds: Coach Harnaam

  Their build-up to the Commonwealth Games was marred by doping controversies but Indian weightlifting coach Harnaam Singh said the lifters will look to regain their lost glory by reaping a rich medal haul in next month's Delhi Games.

• Weightlifters look to erase dope shame in Commonwealth Games

  Saved from missing the Commonwealth Games by a last-minute loan from the Organising Committee, Indian weightlifters would look to erase the dope shame of the previous two editions with a rich haul of medals in the October 3-14 mega-event.

• Indian weightlifter Chanu fails dope test

  It comes as an embarrassment for the Indian sports fraternity. Ahead of the Commonwealth Games, weightlifter Sanamacha Chanu has failed the dope test. The weightlifter tested positive for methyl-hexa-neamine, a banned substance.This is the second time Chanu tested positive for drugs. She had tested positive for diuretics earlier during the Athens O...

• CWG OC releases Rs 1.75 cr to IWF to pay fine

  After weeks of uncertainty, decks were on Thursday cleared for Indian weightlifters' participation in the Commonwealth Games with the Organising Committee releasing Rs 1.75 crore to the Indian Weightlifting Federation so that it can pay the doping fine to the international parent body.

• Sports Ministry tells OC to pay weightlifting fine

  The prospect of Indian lifters taking part in Commonwealth Games brightened on Tuesday with the Sports Ministry directing the CWG Organising Committee to immediately release Rs 1.75 crore loan to the national weightlifting body for paying the USD 3,75,000 fine to its parent international federation.

• We will win 15 medals in weightlifting in CWG: Baishya

  Indian Weightlifting Federation on Saturday claimed that lifters would bag 15 medals in the Commonwealth Games though their participation depends on the national body paying a hefty fine of USD 3,75,000 to the international federation by this month.

• Now, harassment charges hit Indian weightlifting

  Indian Weightlifting Federation on Saturday constituted a three-member committee to probe into the charges of sexual harassment of junior lifters by an unnamed coach as alleged by Sydney Olympic bronze medallist Karnam Malleswari.

• IWF hands life ban on three lifters, including Vicky Bhatta

  Cracking the whip on dope offenders, Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) on Saturday handed life bans on three lifters, including 2006 Commonwealth Games silver medallist Vicky Bhatta for their second dope offences.

• IWF executive body to be reconstituted on Dec 27

  A new executive body of the IWF, the members of which resigned en masse last month, will be constituted by the IWF General Body in its special meeting on December 27.

• India's fate still undecided in IWF meet

  A decision on whether to ban the dope-tainted Indian Weightlifting Federation has been deferred till on Saturday by the sport's world governing body.

• IWF's fate to be known on Friday

  Dope-tainted Indian Weightlifting Federation's fate will be known on Friday after the sport's world governing body deliberates on whether to ban it or let it off with a fine.

• Ban threat looming large for Indian lifters

  Indian weightlifters' participation in the 2010 CWG in jeopardy, the sport's governing body meets on Wednesday to decide whether to ban the country for a spate of dope flunks last month.