The IWF has learnt with great sadness about the loss of Mr Marcello Zoratti, a prominent administrator of our sport in Italy. For more than 60 years deeply connected with weightlifting, Mr Zoratti has been also an important official within the European Federation (EWF). At home, he was namely one of the founders, in 1965, […]
After the completion of the third Qualifying Event for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the Olympic Qualification Ranking is updated on the IWF website. Following the IWF World Championships in Bogota (COL) last December, the Pan-American Championships at the end of March in Bariloche (ARG), and the recent European Championships in Yerevan (ARM), the provisional […]
More than 4,000 people turned up hoping to cheer their Armenian heroes to victory on the final day of the European Weightlifting Championships here in Yerevan, but instead they saw another masterful display by Lasha Talakhadze. The audience of 4,400, the biggest crowd this century to watch a single session at the European Championships, roared […]
Europe’s female weightlifter of the year Solfrid Koanda won another continental title on an entertaining day at the European Championships in Yerevan, her final outing before she cuts weight to lift in the Olympic 81kg category. In her past three competitions Koanda has won two continental titles and become Norway’s first ever female world champion. […]
Weightlifters from host nation Armenia were roared on to the podium by a big crowd at the European Championships here in Yerevan. Davit Hovhannisyan and Ara Aghanyan, first and second last year in Albania, repeated the feat in front of their own fans, helped by a slew of red lights for rivals from France and […]