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Nine Olympic gold medallists, nine current world champions and 13 world record holders will lift over the next two weeks in the Olympic qualifier in Doha Qatar. There will also be a formidable DPRK team featuring three women who set world records eight weeks ago.
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The IWF recently informed all its National Member Federations on the summary of the amendments to the 2024 IWF Anti-Doping rules, to be applicable from January 1, 2024. The main novelties include: TESTING...
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Eileen Cikamatana was in tears after winning at the Pacific Games in Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands. The Australian was highly emotional not because she improved her best qualifying total in the Paris 2024 rankings, but because so many members of her family were there to see her do it.
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Alireza Yousefi won the men’s super-heavyweights by a wide margin, and his team-mate Taha Nemati set a youth world record in second place to complete a strong finish by Iran at the World Junior Championships in Guadalajara.
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The IWF President Mohammed Jalood received the prestigious Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Creative Sports Award prize in the category “Arab Administrator” of the year. This award, given annually in several categories...
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Another home champion for Mexico, a first win for Iran and yet another debutant medallist for Japan were the highlights on day seven of the 2023 World Junior Championships in Guadalajara. All six medallists on total were teenagers...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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...
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Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas president Monico Puentevella urges lawmakers to file a bill that will prohibit transgender athletes from competing in Philippine sports
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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...
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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...
