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In a country where Swimming is a national pride (the sport brought more than one-third of the medals won at the Olympics), Australia could however shine at the highest level in weightlifting on one occasion: in 1984.
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Starting in 2019 – the agreement had been signed in November 2018, at the IWF World Championships in Ashgabat (TKM) – the IWF partnered with the International Testing Agency (ITA) for the development of a transparent and independent strategy in the fight against doping.
International Weightlifting Federation
Historically considered one of the basic weightlifting exercises, the Press movement – whereby the bar is lifted onto the chest/shoulder level and then elevated overhead – had been left as one of the three movements in the Olympic programme since the 1928 edition in Amsterdam.
International Weightlifting Federation
Since it started its Olympic participation at the 1948 Games in London, Trinidad and Tobago has amassed until 2024 a total of 19 medals. Fifteen of them come from Athletics, undoubtedly a sport with great tradition and superb athletes in the Caribbean island.
International Weightlifting Federation
Weightlifting has been welcomed on to the programme of the European Games for the first time, raising the status of the sport after a strong campaign by the continental federation. “For sure, this decision...
International Weightlifting Federation
When thinking about weightlifting in Japan, a name is immediately mentioned: Miyake. From 1960 to the present day, members of this family have marked the history of the sport in the country and on the international scene.
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At the 1948 Congress In London, Vice-President Dietrich Wortmann from the USA, introduced an important subject into the discussion: the possible creation of continental federations. Forty-three years after the foundation of the IWF...
International Weightlifting Federation
One of the most emotive moments in Olympic weightlifting history happened in 2008, at the Beijing Games, in the +105kg category. Born in Vienna, in 1982, Matthias Steiner initially represents his native Austria.
International Weightlifting Federation
With the momentum created in 2022 with the election of a renovated IWF Executive Board and the subsequent structural reforms in the IWF Constitution, the creation of an IWF Strategic Plan was also deemed a necessity for our International Federation.
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Before the IWF officially recognised and implemented women’s events at the beginning of the 1980s, Karyn Marshall (USA) is already training in 1978 in the sport she would later excel at. In 1981, at 25, she wins her first national championships.
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In October 1950, on the occasion of the World Championships, the International Federation’s Congress was convened in Paris (FRA). Welcoming the delegates at home, President Jules Rosset expressed in his report a major concern within the weightlifting family...
International Weightlifting Federation
Being the most decorated Olympian in Greece, the birthplace of the Games, is an honour all Hellenic athletes aspire to have. This special status is for the time being reserved for a hero, arguably one of the best weightlifters of all time, Pyrros Dimas.
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Following the consolidation of the FIH (“Fédération Internationale d’Haltérophilie”, the French version of the IWF) after 1920, and the establishment of the weightlifting programme for the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam ...
International Weightlifting Federation
2022 was a turning point in terms of the athletes’ voice and representation within the IWF. If an Athletes Commission was already in place before that, the new Executive Board and updated Constitution...
International Weightlifting Federation
The foundation of the IWF in 1905 does not mean that the sport of weightlifting was only “born” then. From that important moment on, it became more structured, but its practice was popular by the middle of the 19th century.
