International Weightlifting Federation
Always serene in his chair, he speaks in a fluent way, without hesitations. He doesn’t take any calls or reply to any messages during the interview. At 33, Eshaq Ebrahim Eshaq is about to accomplish the unthinkable: to hold the first-ever World Championship of an Olympic sport in Bahrain.
International Weightlifting Federation
PRK’s formidable women’s team looks likely to dominate at the IWF World Championships in Bahrain, which starts next Friday and runs for 10 days. Since returning from a four-year absence after the Covid pandemic...
International Weightlifting Federation
Karlos Nasar can round off his spectacularly successful year at the IWF World Championships in Bahrain by setting more world records and claiming the one major title that has eluded him at his preferred weight of 89kg.
New York Post
An Italian Olympic weightlifter won bronze at the 2024 Paris Games while on trial for rape in his home country, according to a new report on Tuesday. Antonino Pizzolato placed third for Italy in the Snatch...
TheSun.co.uk
ITALIAN Olympic weightlifter Antonino Pizzolato was reportedly on trial for rape during his bronze medal success at the Paris Olympics.
International Weightlifting Federation
The International Testing Agency (ITA) released its “Paris 2024 Pre-Games Report” (link here) and weightlifting appears as one of the very few sports to have tested all its participating athletes in the period of six months before the Olympics!
International Weightlifting Federation
IWF Member Federations entered for the 2024 IWF World Championships have until this Friday, November 22, at 12h00 (noon) CET to proceed to the verification of their final entries. In this last step before the participation of their teams in Manama (BRN)...
International Weightlifting Federation
Cyrille Tchatchet II is the candidate from the weightlifting family to the WADA Athlete Council, an election that will take place between December 10-12. Now representing Great Britain, Cyrille is a Cameroon-native athlete who joined Europe as a refugee and...
Grindtv.com
The clean is an explosive full-body movement that helps develop total body power and strength.
International Weightlifting Federation
Lasha Talakhadze will miss the IWF World Championships for the first time since 2015. He has barely trained since winning his third Olympic title in Paris three months ago and is not among the final entries for Bahrain, where the 2024 World Championships run from December 6-15.
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF is launching today its renovated Photo Gallery, where you can find a selection of photos from the IWF events, namely the Senior, Junior and Youth World Championships. The upload of images will be made during the competition...
International Weightlifting Federation
Armenia had seven winners, including the top individual performers for men and women, at the European Junior Championships in Raszyn, Poland which ended at the weekend. Türkiye, whose nine medals were more than any other European nation at the World Junior Championships in León...
International Weightlifting Federation
The beginning of a new Olympic cycle is often synonym with new elections in our national member federations. That was recently the case in Finland, New Zealand and Türkiye, where the incumbent presidents were re-elected for a new term.
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF National Federations are kindly reminded that the deadline for confirming their final entries for the 2024 IWF World Championships in Manama (BRN) is November 6, 2024. At this stage, and through the IWF E-entry system...
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSA), so that new and reinforced ways of co-operation can be implemented in the years to come.
