British Weight Lifting has announced the appointment of the Leeds United CEO, Angus Kinnear as the new Independent Chairman of the Board. Fresh from a successful season, which saw Leeds narrowly miss out on promotion to the Premier League, Angus brings a wealth of sporting, marketing and commercial expertise and an understanding of both professional, […]
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12 Schools from the greater Suva area are taking advantage of the 2019 IWF Junior World Championships by participating in its “Voices of the Athletes” Schools Program. Weight training is basic to all sports and the physical development of young sportspeople. By exposing the students to such a high caliber competition, Weightlifting Fiji, under the […]
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The men’s 102kg competition ended with the great victory of CHKEIDZE Irakli, obtaining the first gold for Georgia on the Junior World Championships. The 2018 Junior World and Junior European Champion IRAKLI was second in the Snatch behind overall silver medallist ARLIONAK Andrei (BLR), but managed to turn the odds in the Clean and Jerk. […]
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On the sixth day of the IWF Junior World Championships in Suva, Fiji, KUZGANBAYEVA Karina (KAZ) took all three golds in the women’s 81kg competition with six good lifts. In the Snatch, she scored 126kg, that second finisher, Korean JANG Hyeonju tried to match, but could not lift, leaving her with a 124kg score in […]
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MAHMOUD Rania Mohamed Ezzat won the day’s second overall gold for Egypt in the women’s 76kg bodyweight category, with a 97kg Snatch and 122kg Clean and Jerk. MAHMOUD has a history of winning every single international competition she participated in so far, most recently the African Championships in the 71kg category. ANDREWS-NAHU Kanah Shenelle pinched […]
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