The women’s 64kg at the IWF World Championships will go down as one of the strangest in the sport’s history. Two Colombians who are not just from the same city but the same weightlifting club went head-to-head before one of them won the world title while the other was knocked off the podium by two […]
The Thai teenager Weeraphon Wichuma caused a sensation at the IWF World Championships by setting a junior world record and winning gold by a wide margin from the C Group in the men’s 73kg Olympic category. It is the first time a C Group lifter has ever won gold at a major competition. Wichuma, who […]
More than 85 athletes and respective support personnel were today present at the IWF/ITA Anti-Doping Education Seminar, organised in Riyadh on the occasion of the IWF World Championships in Saudi Arabia. It was a privileged opportunity for many lifters and their entourage to acquire updated information about the anti-doping activities carried out by the International […]