Christine Girard was the first Canadian female weightlifter to win Olympic medals – a bronze in 2008 in Beijing and she is the Champion of the 2012 London Olympic Games. Christine originally ranked fourth in Beijing and third in London...
The 2019 IWF Grand Prix ODESUR CSLP in Lima, Peru was one of the highlights of the IWF calendar beside the World Championships, which concluded last weekend where the audience saw many impressive results and a Junior World Record.
Kuwaiti women have broken yet another social “glass ceiling” by entering the world of weightlifting, competing successfully in various tournaments both here and abroad. The Kuwaiti women weightlifting federation...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced that, in November 2019, the Agency will launch ‘Athlete Central’, its new App that will facilitate athlete compliance with Whereabouts rules under the global anti-doping program.
Young weightlifters from both North and South Korea demonstrated the power of sport to unite people in friendly and peaceful competition at the recent 2019 Youth and Junior Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Pyongyang.
The Sports Choice Encyclopedia is an English-language international publication promoting the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, that was produced in close professional...
The IWF Grand Prix in Lima started with a press conference where Mr. Iván Dibós, President of the Organizing Committee and IOC Member in the company of Dr. Tamás Aján, IWF President and Dr. Renzo Manyari...
The eighth edition of the Oceania Talent Identification Program (OTIP) has reached a record number of 9156 entries from 13 countries this year (5151 boys and 4005 girls)! In 2012, Dr Tamas Ajan, President...
The 2019 Alexander Cup was held between 1-4 December in Grodno, Belarus, in memory of the two-time Olympic champion, four-times World Champion, two-times European Champion and Member of the IWF Technical Committee, Alexander Kurlovich.
