A two-time European weightlifting champion, Pielieshenko finished fourth in the 85kg light-heavyweight category at the Rio Games in 2016. He had not competed since 2018 when he failed a drug test ...

while heavyweight Yuri Zaitsev benefitted from the expulsion of Bulgaria's Valentin Hristov. The Eastern Bloc boycott of the Games means that the most dominant forces in weightlifting at the time ...

Flagler Palm Coast's Cody Strawser (third and fourth place) and FPC heavyweight Matt McFall (fourth place) took home some medals at the Class 3A state weightlifting championships.

Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko, has died during the conflict with Russia. Pielieshenko finished fourth in the light-heavyweight 85kg classing at the Rio Olympics in 2016 was ...

while heavyweight Yuri Zaitsev benefitted from the expulsion of Bulgaria's Valentin Hristov. The Eastern Bloc boycott of the Games means that the most dominant forces in weightlifting at the time ...