Gujranwala teen sisters aim big in weightlifting
- 28-Sep-2021
GUJRANWALA: More women are opting for sports that were previously considered to be the domain of man. Among them are two teenage sisters from Gujranwala who aim to make their mark in weightlifting. “I am training for the National Women’s Weightlifting Championship but my main target is the South Asian Games,” said 14-year-old Shafaq Dar, […]
World record and gold for Iranian weightlifter
- 13-Aug-2016
RIO DE JANEIRO: Kianoush Rostami broke his own world record to win gold in the men's 85kg weightlifting at the Rio Olympics on Friday and clinch Iran's first medal of the Games, before promising it would not be the last.
Olympics weightlifter blacks out, falls off stage
- 12-Aug-2016
RIO DE JANEIRO: Mullet-haired Finnish weightlifter Milko Tokola wildly celebrated a successful lift, then blacked out and fell head first off the stage at the Rio Olympics on Friday.
Kulsoom Abdullah — world's first hijab-wearing weightlifter
- 24-Sep-2015
KARACHI: Kulsoom Abdullah, Pakistani-American, has been weightlifting at both national and international level since 2010, but what is most interesting about her is that the lady is always sighted with hijab even though lifting enormous weights.