While two Americans tried to improve their Olympic qualifying prospects on day five of the IWF Grand Prix here in Havana, their former team-mate Mattie Sasser made huge strides towards a place at Paris 2024. Sasser, who lifted for the Marshall Islands at Rio 2016, switched nationality to win medals for the US and has […]
Eko Yuli Irawan posted the best numbers of his career at the age of 33 here in Havana, and is on course to set a weightlifting record for the ages. In more than 120 years since the sport featured at the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896 no weightlifter has ever won five medals […]
Manama, the capital of Bahrain, will host the 2024 edition of the IWF World Championships, after the vote of the IWF Executive Board today in Havana (CUB). The Middle East bid received more support that the two other candidatures for next year’s IWF top-event, Yerevan (ARM) and Tirana (ALB). This will be the most important […]
Just outside the best 10 in the Olympic ranking before competing in the IWF Grand Prix in Havana, Arley Calderon was the home hero on the third day of the event after getting two bronze medals in the men’s 61kg. At the IWF World Championships, last December in Bogota (COL), the Cuban ace lifted 280kg […]
Ricko Saputra from Indonesia won gold, while Hampton Morris from the United States and Arley Calderon from host nation Cuba moved up the Olympic ranking lists on day three of the IWF Grand Prix here in Havana. On a good day for USA, Jourdan Delacruz won despite declining four of her lifts in the women’s […]