Tracey Lambrechs says she trained "like a beast" to make the Commonwealth Games team.

Lambrechs dropped down a weight class to pursue selection for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to represent NZ at the Comm Games

You get to choose the 2017 Northern Advocate People's Choice Award

Weightlifter now eyes official male record of 4500kg.

Teenage girl claims 'Australia's strongest man' was "infatuated" with getting her pregnant

Trans-gender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has lost her case to compete at the Pacific Cup.

NZ's transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has delivered personal bests at WMG2017.

World Masters Games weightlifter Tony Ebert hopes to reclaim matrimonial bragging rights.

Could she also become our first transgender Commonwealth Games medallist? Alex Chapman investigates.

The difficult issue of transgender athletes, a steep learning curve for Warriors winger and a coach on the rise.

Hubbard will compete in the 90 kilogram-plus weight category and is now considered a leading contender for selection for the Commonwealth Games.

Hubbard's emergence forces Lambrechs to aim for a lower weight division.

The Colombian came fourth in the 63kg event at the Rio Olympics, yet her enthusiasm was not dimmed.

12 Olympic athletes have been sanctioned for failing anti-doping tests at the London 2012 Games, with nine of the athletes being weightlifters

It was going to take all of his concentration and a good deal of strength to pull this one off.

Source: Youtube/The Strength Doc An American powerlifter has recorded one of the most impressive world records in weightlifting history. Competing for Team USA at 2016 IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships in Texas, Ray Williams set a world record squat of 438 kgs (965.6lbs).

It has been 16 years since New Zealand selected a male and female weightlifter for a Games, and the two raise New Zealand's team number to 111.

Montel Tivoli says he is unrecognisable, physically and mentally, from the shy kid who was lacking confidence two years ago.

Tracey Lambrechs and Andrea Miller are in a seven-strong women's team to compete at the Oceania Championships in Suva.

Weightlifter booted out of Pacific Games after he posted photos of PNG with offensive hashtag.

Marven Yacoub testified that he had been taken from a Burger King against his will by a man called Smokey and two unknown gang associates to an office in Ponsonby.

A bodybuilder who became the victim of a kidnapping was allegedly tricked into attending a meeting with his kidnappers.

An Auckland bodybuilder allegedly arranged the kidnapping of a fellow bodybuilder who considered him to be like a “brother”, in an attempt to avoid being jailed.

The young weightlifter who alerted authorities to his coach’s attempts to supply him with steroids and performance-enhancing substances has been praised for his courage.

Weightlifting coach Daniel Milne has been suspended for six years by the Sports Tribunal for attempted trafficking in, and possession of, prohibited substances.

If you like sporting all-rounders, then you'll like 15-year-old MAGS Year 11 student Isaiah Papali'i.