The test event – also serving as a Silver Level Qualification event – for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games weightlifting competition begins this weekend at the Tokyo International Forum. The training hall...
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu was only 11 when she won her first-ever competitive gold medal. The weightlifting champion, who made her debut at the 2016 Rio Olympics, was faced with bitter disappointment when she was only one of two lifters who did not finish at the entry-level category.
Egypt’s Minister of Education honoured Rania Mohamed Ezzat, the Egyptian junior weightlifting champion, who recently made history by winning first place in the IWF Junior World Championships, bagging three medals–two golds and one silver in Suva, Fiji last month.
United World Wrestling is organizing a series of cadet training camps named ‘More than Medals’ for their young wrestlers. As weightlifting is a core sport and is known as one of the important modules in Strength & Conditioning training for all sports...
British Weight Lifting (BWL) is canvassing opinion from volunteers in a bid to help clubs maximise their success. The governing body has released a survey which it hopes will produce the information required to help clubs move forward.
Successful IWF Anti-Doping Outreach and iLiftClean Booth were established for athletes and officials again during the 2019 IWF Junior Championships in Suva, Fiji. The iLifClean Booth was set up near the field of play...
Chaired by Ursula Papandrea, IWF Vice President, the IWF Women’s Commission met in Suva to identify and discuss immediate and long-term tasks. In addition to members from Austria and New Zealand, several IWF officials were interested in the discussions, including Dr.
IWF congratulates Gerhard PEYA, President of the Austrian Weightlifting Federation, on being decorated with the Prestigious Award of the Republic of Austria. The ceremony was initiated by Ensemble Wild with the Camellia polka by Johann Strauss.
IWF reports that the sample of Ms. Nahil DYAB (SYR) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for methasterone and its metabolite 2α,17α-dimethyl-5α-androstane-3α,17β-diol. (S1.1 Anabolic agents). As a consequence...
The weightlifting family is mourning: Argentine Claudio Leveque, who was not only a great athlete but a big personality in weightlifting passed away recently. He was born in France but naturalized to Argentina and started to lift weights in the ’60s.
A 14-year-old incoming freshman at Middleton High School (Hillsborough County, Fla.) collapsed and died after struggling through an offseason conditioning drill, setting off concern across Florida’s Gulf Coast.
IWF reports that the sample of Mr. Cristopher PAVON FUNES (HON) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for stanozolol metabolites and dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone metabolites (S1.1 Anabolic agents).
