International Weightlifting Federation
As part of our continuous effort to sensibilise the younger lifters to our anti-doping rules and programmes, the IWF is delighted to be partnering with the International Testing Agency (ITA) at the 2023 IWF World Junior Championships in Guadalajara and deliver an Anti-Doping Education Seminar...
Rappler.com
Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas president Monico Puentevella urges lawmakers to file a bill that will prohibit transgender athletes from competing in Philippine sports
International Weightlifting Federation
The 2023 edition of the IWF World Junior Championships is on, after today’s Opening Ceremony, held in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico. While the lifters enter into action this Wednesday, the 44 national...
Rappler.com
Hidilyn Diaz, the Philippines' first and only Olympic champion, hopes the academy located in Rizal will finish construction in four months as she gears up for a potential stint in the Paris Games next...
International Weightlifting Federation
Besides the outstanding sportive success, the IWF is pleased to announce that the 2023 IWF World Championships, held from September 4-17 in Riyadh (KSA), had no positive doping results among the 213 athletes from 61 different countries that were tested.
International Weightlifting Federation
Colombia topped the weightlifting medals table at the Pan American Games at Santiago in Chile, where the star individual performer was the 20-year-old American Olivia Reeves. Reeves set two junior world...
Sydney Morning Herald
Li Wenwen had a frightening lift in the women's +87kg category at the 2023 world weightlifting championships.
International Weightlifting Federation
After the mixed team event during the EYOF in July in Maribor, the European weightlifting family happily returned to Slovenia for the 9th edition of the European Union Cup, organised at the Sport Faculty of the University of Ljubljana on October 13-14.
International Weightlifting Federation
Weightlifting has today been confirmed on the programme of the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028, following a vote of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Mumbai, India. It comes after the...
International Weightlifting Federation
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) welcomes today’s recommendation that weightlifting be confirmed on the programme of the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028. The proposal, made by the International...
International Weightlifting Federation
After eight days of intense competition at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, the team honours went to DPRK and the top individual was Liu Huanhua from China. Seven world champions were beaten, but that...
International Weightlifting Federation
The month of November will be a busy one in terms of anti-doping education, with the staging of five webinars by the International Testing Agency (ITA). Every Tuesday, from November 7 to December 5, all participants will be able to be briefed and discuss on several topics related to anti-doping.
International Weightlifting Federation
The Electoral Congress of the Mediterranean Weightlifting Confederation (MWC), held in Sliema, Malta, on October 7, has chosen a new Executive Board, chaired by the three-time Olympic champion Pyrros Dimas, from Greece.
International Weightlifting Federation
After looking at ways of enhancing the three pillars that are at the core of the IWF activities – its Athletes, its Events, and its own Administration –, the fourth pillar of the 2024-2032 IWF Strategic...
International Weightlifting Federation
Forrester Osei, the Chair of the IWF Athletes Commission (AC) was the representative of our International Federation in the 11th International Athletes’ Forum (IAF) that gathered this week in Lausanne...
