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Asian Championships: ‘Beautiful memories’ for Rahmat Erwin, agony for Olympic champion Rizki – and China wins 57 medals

16 May 2025 10:05 International Weightlifting Federation

Rahmat Erwin said farewell to the outgoing body weight categories with a memorable performance at the Asian Championships in Jiangshan...

‘Exciting new chapter’: Hidilyn Diaz serves as Palaro weightlifting tournament director

24 May 2025 07:42 Rappler.com

Hidilyn Diaz plays a pivotal role in the Palarong Pambansa as she serves as the tournament director for weightlifting, which is now a demo sport in the annual tiff for elementary and high school student-athletes

Asian Championships: ‘Beautiful memories’ for Rahmat Erwin, agony for Olympic champion Rizki – and China wins 57 medals

16 May 2025 10:05 International Weightlifting Federation

Rahmat Erwin said farewell to the outgoing body weight categories with a memorable performance at the Asian Championships in Jiangshan, China, where he set his fifth 73kg clean and jerk world record in 30 months.

Sickest weightlifting injuries including snap ‘like gun going off’ that crowd could hear as World’s Strongest Man begins

15 May 2025 13:02 TheSun.co.uk

STRONGMAN competitions see some of the world’s most powerful people test themselves to the absolute limits.

IWF120y/94 – 1964: Isaac Berger (USA), three Olympics, three medals

15 May 2025 11:51 International Weightlifting Federation

In the second half of the 1950s and the first years of the 1960s, the United States had in Isaac (‘Ike’) Berger one of its most accomplished and successful lifters. Born in 1936 in Jerusalem, his father was a rabbi and diamond setter, who then moved with the family to New York in 1949.

IWF120y/93 – 1958: Asian Federation is founded in Tokyo (JPN)

14 May 2025 10:11 International Weightlifting Federation

After the foundation of the first continental federation – Pan-American – in 1951, a coordinated effort in Asia allowed the establishment in 1958 of the second continental body in the history of the IWF, the Asian Weightlifting Federation (AWF).

IWF120y/92 – 1997: Last major title for Bulgarian ace Yoto Yotov

13 May 2025 13:02 International Weightlifting Federation

In a country of great weightlifters in the history of the Olympic Games and World Championships, Yoto Yotov certainly ranks among the most illustrious athletes of Bulgaria. Born in May 1969, he still competes in the junior category when he earns his first medals at international level ...

IWF120y/90 – 1952: The start of an Olympic saga for Arkady Vorobyov (URS)

11 May 2025 09:10 International Weightlifting Federation

In the multitude of Soviet lifters that excelled at Olympic and world level between the 1950s and 1980s, Arkady Vorobyov emerges as the most successful and prolific one at the Games level, with two gold and one bronze medal.

IWF120y/89 – 2008: Maryam Usman, Nigeria’s strongest woman

10 May 2025 08:38 International Weightlifting Federation

Besides Egypt, an early and traditional powerhouse in our sport, the continent of Africa only medalled with two other countries at Olympic weightlifting events: Nigeria (one silver and one bronze) and Cameroon (one bronze).

IWF120y/88 – 2000: Iran celebrates its new star – Hossein Rezazadeh

09 May 2025 12:05 International Weightlifting Federation

Weightlifting symbolises strength, and the super heavyweight category is often associated with the ‘strongest men’ on earth. Lifters shining in this category are often elevated to a stardom status, both in the history of the sport and of their respective country.

IWF120y/87 – 1967: World Championships, an (almost) annual tradition

08 May 2025 13:40 International Weightlifting Federation

The 2024 IWF World Championships represented the 89th recognised edition of the IWF showcase, with the first one taking place in London, in the now distant year of 1891. There are more than 89 years between that founding date and the present...

Lima, Review: Many ‘firsts’ and new countries shining at the highest level in Peru

08 May 2025 10:16 International Weightlifting Federation

There were plenty of ‘firsts’ at the 2025 World Youth and Junior Championships, which ended in Lima, Peru this week. This was the first time two age group World Championships were staged at the same time...

Update on IWF Bodyweight Categories

08 May 2025 09:54 International Weightlifting Federation

The IWF sent on May 7, 2025 the following communication to all its Member Federations: Following the recent decision of the IOC to include five (5) Women’s and five (5) Men’s Bodyweight Categories for the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028, the Men’s 98kg BW Category has been adjusted to 94kg.

IWF120y/86 – 2024: History in the making for Karlos Nasar (BUL)

07 May 2025 11:58 International Weightlifting Federation

It is not frequent to report on a 20-year-old athlete, still active and necessarily at the beginning of his career, in a series of historical milestones of an international federation. Karlos Nasar, from Bulgaria...

IWF120y/85 – 1952: John Davis (USA) completes a 14-year winning streak with second Olympic gold

06 May 2025 11:09 International Weightlifting Federation

He was one of the weightlifting heroes in the years following World War II: US legend John Davis. Born in January 1921 in Brooklyn (New York), he was only 17 when he won in 1938 his first world title in Vienna (AUT).

IWF120y/84 – 2008: Chen Yanqing (CHN) – fighting against all odds

05 May 2025 12:08 International Weightlifting Federation

This is the successful story of a lifter who could have remained in the most strict anonymity but ended up being the first Chinese female athlete in our Sport to win two (consecutive) Olympic gold medals.

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