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The Start List for the 2019 IWF JWC is up!

  The START LIST for the 2019 IWF Junior World Championships to be held in Suva, Fiji is now published on the IWF website. Check it out! The post The Start List for the 2019 IWF JWC is up! appeared first on International Weightlifting Federation.

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With First Qualifying Period Over, Here’s A Look At Who Could Form U.S. Olympic Weightlifting Team In Tokyo

As of the close of the first of three qualification periods on April 30, 2019, these are the athletes who are in Olympic position from team USA: CJ Cummings (73 kg.), Wes Kitts (109 kg.) and Caine Wilkes (+109 kg.) on the men’s side and Jourdan Delacruz (55 kg.), Alyssa Ritchey (49 kg.), Olympic medalist […] The post With First Qualifying Period Over, Here’s A Look At Who Could Form U.S. Olympic Weightlifting Team In Tokyo appeared first on International Weightlifting Federation.

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IWF Fulfils Final Criteria For Confirmation On Paris 2024 Sports Programme

The International Weightlifting Federation has completed that last outstanding criteria required for the IOC’s March 2019 decision, lifting the conditional status of weightlifting’s place on the Paris 2024 sports programme, to be enforced. The IOC’s March decision was based on a comprehensive series of measures established and implemented by the IWF in recent years, all […] The post IWF Fulfils Final Criteria For Confirmation On Paris 2024 Sports Programme appeared first on International Weightlifting Federation.

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The Arafura Games successfully concluded

The Weightlifting event at the 12th Arafura Games held in Darwin (AUS),  concluded with many Oceania records broken along the way. The weightlifting event held at the new Darwin Convention Centre from the 27th to 29th April produced some excellent results with a packed house every session. Seventeen countries took part in the event. At […] The post The Arafura Games successfully concluded appeared first on International Weightlifting Federation.

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