International Weightlifting Federation
At 12 years and 352 days old, the majority of athletes are barely starting training and competing in the sport they love. Today, in Durres (ALB), Ivy Marie Buzinhani Brustello, from Canada, became the youngest-ever world champion in the history of the IWF...
International Weightlifting Federation
Ivy Buzinhani Brustello made weightlifting history on the opening day of the 2023 IWF World Youth Championships in Durres, Albania when she won a world title at the age of 12 years 352 days. Nobody under...
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Russia and Belarus will not participate in the European Weightlifting Championships 2023 due in Yerevan, according to Russian news media. The men's and women's teams of Russia and Belarus...
International Weightlifting Federation
Following the announcement by the IWF on March 1 about the launch of the IWF Refugee Team, our International Federation has already received several applications for this programme. According to the established milestones, potential candidates have until March 25, 2023 to manifest their interest.
International Weightlifting Federation
“Always a bridesmaid, never a bride”. The expression is self-explanatory and is used by US lifter Mattie Rogers to describe her past performances at the IWF World Championships: 13 medals, including nine silver and four bronze.
International Weightlifting Federation
The 16-year-old Colombian Ingrid Segura will be attempting to add to the six IWF World Youth Championships medals she has already won when she goes for a third straight world title in Durres, Albania next week.
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF continues to strengthen its #ILiftClean campaign, this time by holding an anti-doping educational booth at the IWF World Youth Championships, taking place in Durres (ALB), from March 25-April 1, 2023.
International Weightlifting Federation
Athletes from 22 nations are ready to take part in the 2023 edition of the Pan-American Weightlifting Championships, taking place from March 25-April 2 in Bariloche, Argentina. This event assumes a special importance this year...
International Weightlifting Federation
Coaches will not be able to work in the sport without a licence when a new programme comes into operation after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and will be held more responsible for doping violations. National Federations will also be required to sign up to the programme...
International Weightlifting Federation
At the end of the first deadline (March 1, 2023) to express interest in hosting the IWF World Championships 2024, five preliminary candidates from three continents sent their application to the IWF: Albania, Armenia, Bahrein, Peru and Venezuela.
International Weightlifting Federation
Forty years ago, in Moscow (RUS), the IWF Executive Board took a decision that would change the face of weightlifting: the acknowledgment that our International Federation needed to rule also on women competing in the sport.
Business Standard
Tokyo Olympic Games silver-medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has bagged the 2022 'BBC Indian Sportswoman Of The Year' award after a public vote.
The 28-year-old weightlifter from Manipur became the first athlete to win the award twice in a row after bagging it in 2021 as well.
International Weightlifting Federation
The leaders of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) were this Saturday in the office of the IWF Secretary General Antonio Urso in San Marino in order to hold their annual auditors’ meeting. The...
International Weightlifting Federation
As the smallest country in the European Union and one of the tiniest nations in the world, Malta is not often in the news headlines. Sport is no exception to this rule. Until June 2022, the archipelago (located in the Mediterranean) hadn’t produced any world champion in Olympic sports.
International Weightlifting Federation
Following the recent change of dates of the 2023 IWF Grand Prix I in Havana (CUB), now taking place from June 8-18, the deadline to submit preliminary entries for the competition was also modified: it is now March 8, three months before the start of the event.
