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It is normally a feat associated with strong countries in the Olympic arena, those winning many dozens of medals in a single edition of the Games: to place two of their athletes on the podium within a difference of hours.
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The first day of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games was on and among the weightlifters it was the moment of the weigh-in for the initial category (men’s 60kg) of the competition, to be held the following day.
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Her tiny morphology (she is 1.58m high) hides a strong woman and a hero in the Philippines: Hidilyn Diaz. Initiated in the sport of weightlifting almost by accident – through one of her cousins, after trying basketball and volleyball ...
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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.
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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...
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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”.
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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.
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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...
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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!
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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)...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
