15 April; During an online meeting, the IWF Executive Board today approved the retirement of Tamas Ajan, accepting his resignation as IWF President after 43 years of service to weightlifting. “The IWF thanks Tamas Ajan for more than four decades of service to weightlifting...
Today, 14 April 2020, the Weightlifting Family mourns the passing away of Gottfried Schödl (AUT), IWF Honorary Life President. Since 1964 on the IWF Executive Board, Mr. Schödl became President of the International Weightlifting Federation in 1972 and remained in this position until 2000.
Dear Fellow Athletes Hope you are doing well and we wonder how you are spending your days at troubled times like this. No one could ever have begun to imagine how bewildered and irritated you are that you are losing your opportunity to train like you used to...
IWF reports that the sample of Mr. Al Ajmi Murshid Mohamed Murshid (OMA) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for Oxandrolone metabolite 18-noroxandrolone (S1.1 Anabolic Androgenic Steroids). As a consequence...
Following hearings and the careful consideration of relevant evidence, the Independent Member Federation Sanctions Panel (IMFSP) has imposed disciplinary sanctions on the Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association and Malaysian Weightlifting Federation.
The Pan American Weightlifting Federation held an online Executive Board meeting, where among other discussions related to the problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic, they decided to postpone the Pan American Youth Championships that was due to be held 23-28 June 2020.
