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Lima 2025: Verification of Final Entries closes on April 16
International Weightlifting Federation
National Federations (NF) are kindly reminded that the deadline for Verification of Final Entries for the 2025 IWF World Youth & Junior Championships to be held in Lima (PER) is April 16, 2025 (Wednesday), at 12h00/Noon, CET.
IWF120y/63 – 1983: Start of a successful story for ZKC
International Weightlifting Federation
In northern China, in the Hebei province, the city of Botou has about 300,000 inhabitants, a small town according to the country’s standards. But for the weightlifting world, it assumes a special importance...
IWF120y/62 – 1981: Re-setting milestones in the IWF history
International Weightlifting Federation
In May 1980, while the Olympic world was busy, trying to minimise the impact of the boycott on the Moscow Games, the IWF celebrated in Montreal (CAN) the “100 Years of Modern Weightlifting” and the “60 Years of the International Weightlifting Federation”.
Astrit Hasani is new President of EWF
International Weightlifting Federation
Astrit Hasani from Kosovo is the new President of the European Weightlifting Federation. In a head-to-head between two candidates, Hasani polled 24 votes against 19 for the incumbent Italian Antonio Conflitti from Moldova.
IWF120y/61 – 2007: Olympian Marcus Stephen becomes President of Nauru
International Weightlifting Federation
It is not uncommon to see successful weightlifters reaching, upon their retirement, high positions in the sports administration (Federation or Olympic Committee) of their respective countries. There are also several cases of former athletes choosing a political career...
IWF120y/60 – 1976: David Rigert (URS), the lifter improving 65 WR!
International Weightlifting Federation
Some say he was quite inconsistent, but statistics are there to confirm that David Rigert, representing the Soviet Union, was one of the greatest lifters of the 1970s, establishing no less than 65 World Records during his career!
IWF acknowledges IOC decision on LA 2028 quotas
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF acknowledged the recent decision of the IOC Executive Board concerning the allocation of athletes and event quotas for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles (USA). Weightlifting will remain with a quota of 120 athletes (60 men and 60 women)...
IWF120y/59 – 2008: Eko Yuli Irawan (INA) starts his Olympic harvest
International Weightlifting Federation
Indonesia’s most prolific sport in terms of Olympic medals is undoubtedly Badminton – with 22 out of the 40 podium presences (including eight of the 10 gold won so far) of the Asian nation at the Games.
IWF120y/58 – 1964: Norbert Schemansky clinches fourth Olympic medal!
International Weightlifting Federation
Norbert Schemansky was already 40 when in 1964 in Tokyo he became the first lifter in history to win four Olympic medals! In the Japanese capital, the US champion, competing in the +90kg category, clinched the bronze, 16 years after his first achievement at this level.
2026 Commonwealth Games: Qualification System defined for Weightlifting
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF recently published the Qualification System for the 2026 Commonwealth Games, in which weightlifting is one of the 10 sports on the programme of the competition. The upcoming edition will take place in Glasgow (Scotland) from July 23 to August 2...
IWF120y/57 – 2009: Creation of the IWF Development Programme
International Weightlifting Federation
The idea had been launched 30 years earlier, at the end of the 1970s, when a “Development and Assistance Programme” was initiated to “support member countries of a low standard of weightlifting”, but the implementation of this project as we know it nowadays was set in 2009.
IWF120y/56 – 2016: The first, third Olympic medal for Lydia Valentin
International Weightlifting Federation
No, there isn’t any mistake in the way the title of this story is written. In 2016, at the Rio Olympic Games, Spain enjoyed its first-ever medal in weightlifting, a feat brilliantly achieved by Lydia Valentin, in the women’s 75kg.
Olympian Peter Nagy at the helm of the Hungarian Federation
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF congratulates Mr Peter Nagy for his recent election as new President of the Hungarian Weightlifting Federation. A former international athlete, Mr Nagy took part in three Olympic Games (London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020ne), getting his best result in the Japanese capital (seventh place).
IWF120y/55 – 1980: Oceania Federation is born in Melbourne
International Weightlifting Federation
On November 6, 1980, the vibrant Australian city of Melbourne hosted the inaugural meeting of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation (OWF), the fifth and last (in time) IWF continental body. To lead the newly-formed organisation...
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