The Pan American Weightlifting Federation (PAWF) unveiled the 2020 inductees to PAWF Hall of Fame. Drawn from the ranks of athletes, coaches, technical officials, and leaders, the inductees are true luminaries of the sport.
With the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 postponed until 2021, the IOC, the IPC and Airbnb will bring the spirit of the Olympics and Paralympics online with a curated programme of activities hosted by athletes for the first time in history.
IWF is opening up the nomination process for its Athletes’ Commission. In order to fulfill the IWF Constitution and By-laws, the IWF has the responsibility to give athletes a voice in its governance and decision making process, as athletes are the building blocks of the sport itself.
After the cancellation and postponement of many IWF events in the first part of the year, sadly it has been announced by the corresponding Organizing Committees that more IWF Events shall be cancelled or postponed due to the virus.
Nobody would have thought at the beginning of the year that almost all events and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have to be cancelled or postponed due to a world pandemic. To build on the hiatus of events during the COVID-19 Pandemic...
Senegal and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have mutually agreed to postpone the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Dakar 2022 to 2026 President Macky Sall’s proposal was welcomed by IOC President Thomas Bach, following in-depth discussions on the subject.
After careful consideration, the International University Sports Federation (FISU) announced today the cancellation of the 2020 World University Weightlifting Championships that should have taken place in Gangjin (KOR) from 20 to 24 October 2020.
The Pan American Weightlifting Federation together with the International Weightlifting Federation held its fifth online seminar on 11th July 2020. The first one was about ‘How to live in times of Coronavirus’.
It is with great sadness that we have learned that, the Bulgarian born weightlifter Antonio Krastev passed away at the age of 58 due to a tragic accident in the United States. With his passing the weightlifting world has lost one of its greatest lifter of all time.
IWF reports that the sample of Mr Andrei DEMANOV (RUS) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone metabolite (4-chloro-18-nor-17b-hydroxymethyl, 17a-methyl-5aandrost-13-en-3a-ol) (S1.1 Anabolic Androgenic Steroids). As a consequence...
It is with great sadness that we have learned that John Lear, a hugely influential figure in the history of British Weight Lifting and one of the great characters of UK sport for over five decades, has passed away last week in his home town of Shrewsbury.
Ms Ursula Garza Papandrea, IWF Interim President's Newsletter with the latest updates of the International Weightlifting Federation.
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Iraqi weightlifter and Olympian Mr. Mohammed Yaseen Mohammed. He passed away on 24th June 2020 at the age of 57 in Sweden, reportedly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
