The IWF Masters Executive Board and active Co-opted Members decided to cancel the 2020 IWF MASTERS World Championship in Orlando and to offer to the USA Masters committee to host the event in 2022, which was thankfully received by the USA Masters committee under Michael Cohen.
Dear IWF Athletes, Coaches, Member Federations, contributors and supporters to the sport of weightlifting, I would like to preface this message with my well wishes to all weightlifting athletes. I know you are facing extraordinary challenges in a sport that is already laden with arduous demands.
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...
