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Ana Lopez overtook three Mexican team-mates and moved from nowhere to a strong position in the Olympic rankings when she won the women’s 49kg on the opening day of the Pan American Championships in Venezuela.
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Don Opeloge broke records and made a significant move in the Paris 2024 rankings when he won the 102kg title for Samoa at the Oceania Championships in Auckland, New Zealand. Opeloge’s 175-215-390 was the best ever effort by any Samoan weightlifter on Sinclair points.
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Lasha Talakhadze’s long run of European titles came to an end in Sofia when he withdrew from the men’s super-heavyweights. Varazdat Lalayan from Armenia is the new champion after winning the final session of the 2024 European Championships on 205-250-455.
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National Federations wishing to register their best athletes for the 2024 IWF World Youth Championships, to be held in Lima (PER) from May 22-26, have until this Thursday (February 22) to proceed to their preliminary entries.
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Poland had its first winner at the 2024 European Championships when Weronika Zielinska made her final attempt to take the women’s 81kg. It was a first senior victory for 26-year-old Zielinska, one of two former track and field athletes on the podium.
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Europe’s “weightlifting family” heard about new projects focused on athletes, spectators and competition formats during the EWF Congress in Sofia, where IWF president Mohammed Jalood said there was evidence of “a new culture” in the sport.
Sun-Sentinel
Fiore recorded a 290 total in the Olympic competition. She had a 155 in the clean-and-jerk and 135 in the snatch.
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Karlos Nasar did not disappoint a European Championships sell-out crowd of 3,000 at Arena Sofia. “I love you all, you lifted the weights with me!” he told the noisy Bulgarian fans after winning the European 89kg title for a second time at the age of 19.
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Loredana Toma from Romania won her sixth European title despite missing her last two attempts in the women’s 71kg at the European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. The American Olivia Reeves, lifting as a guest and unable to win medals, made 14kg more than Toma.
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Mihaela Cambei wore her national colours with pride once more as she won her second senior continental title on the opening day of the 2024 European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Cambei broke her own 49kg European record in total as she made five good lifts for 90-109-199.
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The IWF is happy to announce the hiring of Achilleas Tsogas, as CEO of our International Federation, taking his functions from March 1, 2024 at the headquarters in Lausanne (SUI). With an extensive and solid experience in Sports Management...
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A rush of winners in the heavier weight categories for men and women took host nation Egypt clear at the top of the medals table at the 2024 African Championships in Ismailia. Sara Samir was among them as she claimed her ninth continental title as a youth, junior and senior.
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Olympic bronze medallist Man Asaad returned to the international platform for the first time in 14 months and achieved both his aims in an exciting super-heavyweight session in Tashkent – victory in the Asian Championships and a continental record in clean and jerk.
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Before today Akbar Djuraev had never lifted in the 102kg category. Now he is not only Asian champion at that weight, he is a very strong medal contender for Paris 2024. Olympic 109kg champion Djuraev gave host nation Uzbekistan its best result of the week at the Asian Championships in Tashkent.
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DPR Korea finished its campaign at the Asian Championships with a 100 per cent record after Jong Chun Hui won the women’s 76kg to make it 11 from 11. The collective winning margin by the seven women and four men in the team was 260kg.
