With less than 80 days to go before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, an IWF delegation was in the French capital to discuss the last preparation stages of the event with the organisers. The group included Matthew Curtain, IWF Executive Board member and Paris 2024 Technical Delegate, Achilleas Tsogas, IWF CEO, and […]
The IWF President Mohammed Jalood and the IWF General Secretary Antonio Urso met today in Yerevan with the Prime Minister of Armenia, Mr Nikol Pashinyan, to discuss the preparation of the IWF World Championships, to be staged in the country in 2027. It will be the first time that the IWF showcase will be held […]
Two lifters – Ramiro Mora and Yekta Jamali – will be part of the Olympic Refugee Team at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, a group that comprises 36 athletes representing 12 sports. The announcement was made today by the IOC President Thomas Bach in Lausanne (SUI): “We welcome all of you with open arms. You are an enrichment to […]
The IWF President Mohammed Jalood was appointed as Visiting Professor of the Sports Science Faculty of the University of Ningbo (CHN), in a ceremony held on April 28, 2024. That was the highlight of an IWF delegation visit to China, who had the opportunity to be in Fuzhou and Ningbo (host of the 2026 IWF World Championships). On […]
The IWF World Cup, which ended in Phuket, Thailand on Thursday, was an exciting, high-quality, well organised competition that will live long in the memory. It was also unique. Weightlifting at the Olympic Games in August will be very different from what we saw over 12 days at the World Cup, which rounded off the Paris 2024 […]
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The final day of the IWF World Cup was not like the 11 that came before it. There were no world records, nobody knocked a team-mate out of the Olympic rankings, and the two biggest names in the men’s super-heavyweights were in the crowd rather than on the platform. Multiple world record holder Lasha Talakhadze […]
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China’s Olympic champion Li Wenwen built the biggest rankings lead in all 10 weight categories for Paris 2024 when she returned to the platform six months after suffering an elbow injury at the World Championships. The young Korean in second place in the women’s super-heavyweights at the IWF World Cup in Phuket, Thailand, also put […]
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