Tag: Weightlifting

  • Youth has future on 3rd day of Weightlifting

    Youth has future on 3rd day of Weightlifting

    Ashgabat, April 25, 2017: YOUTH FUTURE, Young lifters dominated the women’s 63kg on day three of the Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat, with 2016 Junior World Champion Rim Um Sim (PRK) taking the Combined gold. In the men’s 69kg, 2013 Junior World Champion Albert Linder (KAZ) ran away with the title.

  • World Weightlifting 2013 Lifter of the Year

    Budapest, Mar 24, 2014: At a ceremony held in Budapest, Hungary, Tatiana Kashirina (RUS) and Ruslan Albegov (RUS) were awarded the 2013 Lifter of the Year Trophy. According to the final results of the voting, the recipients of the prestigious titles in both genders became Russian weightlifters. During last year’s World Championships, Kashirina improved the…

  • Weightlifting reassembles Asian athletes in Pyongyang

    Budapest, Sept 9, 2013: The Asian Junior and Senior Cup & Interclub Championships will kick off on 12 September at the Ryugyong Jong Yu Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. At a meeting held in March 2013 at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) headquarters in Budapest, the IWF President Dr. Tamas Ajan…

  • IWF Grand Prix – President’s Cup 2012

    IWF Grand Prix – President’s Cup 2012

    Budapest – Hungary, Sept 8, 2012: The IWF Grand Prix – President’s Cup will be held from 12 to 14 October, 2012 in St. Petersburg, Russia at the Palace of Sports “Yubileyniy”. The training will also be organized in the same venue. The high organization level event delivered in 2011 will certainly be topped by…

  • IWF announced the Final Entry for Olympic

    IWF announced the Final Entry for Olympic

    Budapest – Hungary, July 18, 2012: The International Weightlifting Federation published the Final Entry List for the London 2012 Olympic Games (as of 10 July 2012). Beijing Olympic Gold Medallists to participate at the London 2012 Olympic Games: Women’s +75kg: Mi-ran JANG (KOR) Men’s 77kg: Jaehyouk SA (KOR) Men’s 85kg: Yong LU (CHN) Men’s 94kg:…

  • Deal signed by the IWF & Zhen-Ao Group China

    Deal signed by the IWF & Zhen-Ao Group China

    Budapest – Hungry, June 30, 2012: The International Weightlifting Federation and Zhen-Ao Group China signed a Sponsorship Agreement on 20 June 2012 in Budapest, Hungary. Among the 106 International Sports Organizations, weightlifting, strongly anchored in the Olympic Movement, displays a strong and reliable value for new partners. Zhen-Ao, a fast growing company in the health…

  • Newsletter of International Weightlifting Federation

    Newsletter of International Weightlifting Federation

    Budapest, HUNGARY, June 28, 2012: International Weightlifting, From 18th to 20th June, Attila Adamfi, Technical Delegate and Aniko Nemeth-Mora, IWF Director paid the last in the line of Technical Visits to London. During their meetings all departments and groups of the Games Organising Committee gave updates and preparations for welcoming Weightlifting in London were fine-tuned.…

  • IWF PRESIDENT DR.TAMAS AJAN RECEIVED MEDVEDEV’S ORDER OF FRIENDSHIP AWARD

    IWF Press Release: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev presented on 22 November 2011 the highest state awards of the Republic of Russia at a ceremony held at his Presidential Residence in Gorki, outside Moscow, Russia. The Russian President gave the Order of Friendship award to the President of the International Weightlifting Federation IWF president Dr Tamas…