International Weightlifting Federation
The United States had a debutant winner and a 17-year-old silver medallist on day six of the World Junior Championships in Guadalajara. Those results put Team USA clear at the top of the medals table with three days to go.
International Weightlifting Federation
Mariana Garcia gave her noisy supporters plenty to cheer when she won a world title not just in her own nation and home city, but at her home gym on day five of the World Junior Championships in Guadalajara.
International Weightlifting Federation
The organisers had announced it proudly: the 2023 edition of the IWF World Junior Championships, presently staged in Guadalajara, wouldn’t be limited to the great performances of the young lifters competing in Mexico.
International Weightlifting Federation
Athletes and coaches gathered this morning in the competition venue of the IWF World Junior Championships, taking place in Guadalajara (MEX), for the IWF Anti-Doping Education Seminar, organised in partnership with the International Testing Agency (ITA).
International Weightlifting Federation
An American teenager who trains at 3am after finishing his shift as an aircraft engine mechanic has become a junior world champion, only two years after he introduced himself to weightlifting via YouTube.
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...
