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Olympic weightlifting comprises presently two basic lifts, which are performed successively: the athlete first executes up to three Snatch attempts, followed by a maximum of three Clean & Jerk lifts.
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From a star athlete to a CEO, Alex Rodriguez said he's shifted his routine to include less heavy lifting and more yoga and fasting.
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An IWF delegation, led by IWF CEO Achilleas Tsogas, was this week in Norway to discuss the present stage of preparation for the 2025 IWF World Championships, taking place in Forde, from October 2-11. The IWF group...
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IWF Member Federations are kindly reminded that the deadline to submit the final entries of their athletes taking part at the IWF World Youth and Junior Championships in Lima (PER) is on this Sunday, March 30.
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Born in February 1993, Deng Wei is 17 when she takes part in the first edition of the Youth Olympic Games, in 2010. The talented Chinese lifter gets the gold in Singapore, in what would be the premises of an outstanding career.
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The business had started 35 years earlier in a downtown neighbourhood of Tokyo: Uesaka was founded as an ironworks company, taking since then the best possible advantage of high-quality Japanese steel.
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The IWF is pleased to present, in co-operation with the ITA (International Testing Agency), its statistics concerning the 2024 anti-doping programme. Last year, a total of 3324 samples were collected around the world, including 1889 in-competition and 1435 out-of-competition.
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This story starts in Kullaa, a tiny town in the western part of Finland. On February 4, 1941 Kaarlo Kangasniemi is born there and is part of a big clan: he is one of the 11 children of the family. There are eight boys and three girls...
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Despite being hard to conceive, the first recognised “World Championship” contest took place in March 1891 in London. Fourteen years before the foundation of our International Federation, the event gathered seven athletes from six nations...
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A sports scientist whose grandfather was a world champion rower at 93 took up the sport himself. He says it's the "perfect" exercise for longevity.
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The ‘Hall of Fame’ concept first appeared in 1936, when the US Baseball League created its Pantheon to honour and celebrate the feats of its biggest stars. Other sports quickly adopted the idea (both on a national and international level)...
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He is the most titled Olympic athlete in the history of Georgia and one of the very few lifters with three gold medals at the Games: Lasha Talakhadze is presently the brightest star of our Sport! His successful trajectory starts with his first world title, in 2015, in Houston (USA).
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Throughout its history, the International Weightlifting Federation has incorporated many activities that have since then gained their independence in the sports scene. It starts from the very beginning...
International Weightlifting Federation
After some years of uncertainty concerning the Olympic future of our Sport, the IOC held its Session in Mumbai (IND) in 2023, and among its many decisions, one was particularly celebrated by the IWF: weightlifting was confirmed in the programme of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
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Following the announcement of the election of Mrs Kirsty Coventry at the IOC Session in Olympia (GRE), the IWF sent today a congratulatory letter to the new President-elect. Signed by the IWF President Mohammed Jalood (also present in Greece) and by the IWF General Secretary Antonio Urso...
