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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...
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Nigeria finished top of the medals table at the African Championships, which ended in Mauritius at the weekend. Nigeria’s four female champions, led by 20-year-old Onome Didih, finished first, second, third and fifth in the individual rankings.
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More than 500 of the world’s best young weightlifters will be in Lima, Peru over the next week when, for the first time, the IWF Youth and Junior Championships are staged concurrently. It will be a very busy six days (April 30 to May 5), with 26 sessions on two platforms.
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Traditionally, the rules of weightlifting stipulated that the minimum increase of weight in a bar between two lifts should be of 2.5kg. This meant that whenever an athlete was successfully lifting for example a bar of 150kg...
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Nikolay Peshalov is one of the very few lifters to have won four Olympic medals throughout a very accomplished career! Born in Bulgaria in 1970, he represented his country until 1998, then switching to Croatia.
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Born in May 1938, Imre Foldi had a challenging childhood and teenage years, but became the greatest-ever Hungarian weightlifter and arguably one of the best in our sports’ history. Having lost his mother during World War II, he works as a miner and his extraordinary strength is quickly noticed.
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On September 17, 2000 the weightlifting family was in a celebratory mode at the Sydney Olympics. On that day, after more than 100 years only with male participation, the Games presented the first-ever female competition, the women’s 48kg category.
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The Weightlifting Federation of Africa (WFA) held its electoral congress on April 22, 2025 in Mauritius and unanimously re-elected Mr Khaled Mehalhel for a new term until 2029. In a significant display of unity...
International Weightlifting Federation
The Weightlifting Federation of Africa (WFA) held its electoral congress on April 22, 2025 in Mauritius and unanimously re-elected Mr Khaled Mehalel for a new term until 2029. In a significant display of unity...
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Olympic champions Karlos Nasar and Solfrid Koanda were the top individual performers at the 2025 European Championships in Chishinau, Moldova which finished this week. Seven other Paris Olympians were among the winners.
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Together with the Snatch, the Clean & Jerk is one of the two basic lifts in Olympic weightlifting. Considered in the early days a rudimentary test of strength, it became a highly technical movement...
