International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF President Mohammed Jalood led the visit of an IWF delegation to Oslo (NOR) to meet the organisers of the 2025 IWF World Championships taking place in Forde. The IWF General Secretary Antonio Urso...
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The BYU 2ft Prosthetics Club is hosting their annual design competition, which will feature prototypes of a prosthetic for a former BYU student athlete.
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF is happy to announce its Refugee Team for the year 2024, comprised of four athletes: Parisa Jahanfekrian (originally from Iran, but residing in Germany), Aline de Souza and Monique Araujo (both from Brazil, but presently based in the USA), and Addriel Garcia (Cuba/Italy).
International Weightlifting Federation
Keydomar Vallenilla was a picture of calm even when lifting 212kg above his head on the way to victory for Venezuela at the Pan American Championships. The host nation ended the final day with three winners...
International Weightlifting Federation
The Tokyo Olympic champion Neisi Dajomes is in danger of failing to qualify for Paris 2024 after a mix-up over timing and numbers at the Pan American Championships in Caracas, Venezuela. Dajomes had already won the 81kg category by a wide margin with a lift to spare.
International Weightlifting Federation
Luis Javier Mosquera moved into the top 10 of the Olympic rankings on a night of red lights and high drama at the Pan American Championships in Caracas, Venezuela. Julio Mayora’s noisy army of fans watched their home-nation hero fail three times to finish off a clean and jerk...
International Weightlifting Federation
Josee Gallant made career-best numbers in claiming her first international victory at the Pan American Championships in Venezuela. The Canadian did it with the help of one of the biggest names in Bulgarian weightlifting.
International Weightlifting Federation
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.
International Weightlifting Federation
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.
International Weightlifting Federation
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.
International Weightlifting Federation
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.
International Weightlifting Federation
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.
International Weightlifting Federation
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.
International Weightlifting Federation
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.
