International Weightlifting Federation
United States went to the top of the medals table a third of the way through the World Junior Championships when Miranda Ulrey won a desperately close women’s 59kg contest. Team USA has two golds and one silver on total after three days of action in León, Spain.
International Weightlifting Federation
After his Olympic medal this summer in Paris, he could have skipped the IWF World Junior Championships in Leon (ESP). He didn’t. He came and was world champion. Yesterday, on the second day of the event.
International Weightlifting Federation
Chen Guan-Ling, the senior world champion from Chinese Taipei, and the American Olympic medallist Hampton Morris were in dominant form on day two of the World Junior Championships in León. Chen claimed...
International Weightlifting Federation
There was plenty of excitement on the opening day of the World Junior Championships in León, Spain, when two of the three medal sessions were won by the Philippines and two B Group lifters were on the podium, including one from the host nation.
International Weightlifting Federation
With less than 24 hours for the start of the IWF World Junior Championships in Leon (ESP), the opening Press Conference of the event took place today in the Town Hall of the historical city. Vicente Canuria...
India.com
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, who won a silver medal at Tokyo Olympics, missed on a medal by the barest of margins in Paris Games last month.
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF learnt with great sadness about the sudden loss of Mr Gustavo Malgor, President of the Argentinean Weightlifting Federation, on September 15. In a letter of condolences sent to the National Federation...
International Weightlifting Federation
Hampton Morris will be hoping for a third world title and more world records when he brings his junior career to a close in Spain next week. Morris, who won Olympic bronze in his last competition six weeks ago...
Cyprus Mail
Cypriot weightlifter Maria Markou will be in action on Friday, competing in the 61-kilogram category. She is the last Cypriot Paralympian to compete in this year’s Games, after long jumper Viktoras Pentaras’ seventh-placed finish and swimmer Karolina Pelendritou’s two-medal haul.
International Weightlifting Federation
An IWF delegation led by President Mohammed Jalood met the International Testing Agency (ITA) this week in Lausanne (SUI) to discuss the ongoing partnership between the two entities and their common anti-doping strategies.
International Weightlifting Federation
Please be sure not to miss two important deadlines concerning the remaining events of the year, the IWF World Junior Championships and the IWF World Championships. The junior rendezvous will take place in Leon...
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF is pleased to announce that its membership to the Global Esports Federation (GEF) has been accepted and the Sport of weightlifting is now part of this exciting new family. The IWF application request was made in the final days of July and on August 1...
International Weightlifting Federation
If we had to measure the quality of the weightlifting performances in Paris, a good indicator would be the total number of records established in the French capital during the 2024 Olympic Games: 26! They are divided into three categories ...
International Weightlifting Federation
If Paris 2024 is a good guide, weightlifting is heading for a bright future. While the outstanding individual achievement was Lasha Talakadze winning his third gold, the best performance of the Olympic Games came from Karlos Nasar, who was 20 in May.
International Weightlifting Federation
Li Wenwen lifted her coach rather than the barbell on the way to claiming her second Olympic title in the last – and noisiest – session of weightlifting at Paris 2024. Her win helped China to continue its run of winning at least five weightlifting gold medals at every Games this century.
