International Weightlifting Federation
This is the successful story of a lifter who could have remained in the most strict anonymity but ended up being the first Chinese female athlete in our Sport to win two (consecutive) Olympic gold medals.
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TEHRAN, May 05 (MNA) – Hossein Yazdani of Iran snatched a gold medal in the 2025 World Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships on Monday.
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Armenia has no Olympic gold medallist in weightlifting so far, but the triumph of Yurik Vardanyan at the 1980 Moscow Games and the additional six titles at the World Championships makes him the best lifter so far in the country’s history.
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There was a remarkable sight at the medal presentation after an entertaining women’s 71kg session at the World Youth and Junior Championships in Lima, Peru – weightlifters from Canada and New Zealand standing on the podium above an athlete from China.
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His name is Fares Ibrahim El-Bakh, but everyone knows him in the weightlifting world as Meso Hassona. Born in June 1998 and representing Qatar, he descends from an Egyptian family deeply connected to the sport...
En.mehrnews.com (sports)
TEHRAN, May 03 (MNA) – Iranian female weightlifter Alma Hosseini won silver and bronze medals at the World Junior and Youth Championships in Peru.
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On the third day of the IWF World Youth and Junior Championships, the IWF/ITA Clean Sport Seminar took place this morning in Lima, Peru, with the attendance of around 100 participants in the event. As usual...
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In 1997, when the International Olympic Committee decided on the introduction of women’s weightlifting in the Games programme (from Sydney 2000), Soraya Jimenez (MEX) was 20 years old. Years before, with her sister, she practiced basketball, but her relatively low height soon became a challenge.
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President Donald Trump delivered a speech for graduating students at the University of Alabama on Thursday. While delivering a speech to the students, Trump interspersed with impressions of transgender weightlifters.
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Albert Delos Santos from the Philippines was the star of a hectic second day at the 2025 World Youth and Junior Championships in Lima, Peru. He won the Junior 67kg title in dramatic fashion, posting 51kg more than his last competitive total after recovering from a bad back injury.
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Born in July 1969 in what was then the German Democratic Republic, Ronny Weller was an accomplished example of an athlete successfully coping with the political changes that occurred in his country at the end of the 1980s.
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In an effort to introduce innovation in the way our sport is presented to fans and reaches new audiences, the IWF, in collaboration with the Swiss Weightlifting Federation and Eleiko, organised in 2022 the first edition of the Street Weightlifting Championships, staged in Lausanne (SUI).
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Before the start of the 2025 IWF World Youth and Junior Championships, taking place in Lima (PER) from April 30 to May 5, the Pan-American Weightlifting Federation (PAWF) hosted today a “Good Governance Seminar”...
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Lifters from Italy were quite successful at the Olympic level in the 1920s, when four of them earned gold at the Games – Filippo Bottino, in 1920, Pierino Gabetti, Carlo Galimberti, and Giuseppe Tonani, all in 1924.
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Athletes from DPR Korea started their participation at the Olympics from the Munich 1972 edition onwards, but have already accumulated a total of 58 medals in nine sports. In 1980, in Moscow, tiny Ho Bong-chol...
