Some 181 athletes from Bahrain, Jordan, Gaza, Palestine, Yemen, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq and Syria participated in the event.
Weightlifting is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
Publish Date: 31 December 2018 - 19:37
Iranian weightlifter Mohammad Hossein Golparvar in the weight category of 89 kg earned a gold medal in West Asia Weightlifting Championship.