Olympic and Commonwealth medal winners are amongst athletes appointed to the UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) Athlete Commission as it seeks to strengthen the athlete voice within anti-doping. Besides Jo Calvino, multiple British Weightlifting Champion; Olympic skeleton medallist Laura Deas, 50m backstroke world record holder Liam Tancock, and ex Gloucester Rugby Football Club second-row James Hudson are […]
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The IWF today expressed its surprise at the IOC Executive Board (EB)’s decision to continue the conditional nature of weightlifting’s inclusion for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games programme, but maintains its ongoing commitment to implementing robust anti-doping measures in order to protect clean weightlifters. The IWF had been confident weightlifting would be reinstated given it […]
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The Spanish Championships will kick off this Saturday, July 21 in the Municipal Pavilion of Culleredo (Galicia). A total of 153 athletes (85 men and 68 women) will compete at the competition. Participation at the event increased by 11.7% compared to last year. This will be the last national competition before the 2018 IWF World […]
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232 young men and women from a total of 48 countries gathered in the capital of Uzbekistan for the 2018 IWF Junior World Championships last week. An impressive range of talent was on display in Tashkent, with some young stars making clear statements in showing they could challenge for Senior titles in the very near […]
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The Cyprus Weightlifting Federation held its annual General Assembly and Election of it’s Executive Board. The following matters were discussed and voted: The updated, constitution of the CWF, aligned to the IWF Constitution, was voted unanimously The clubs were fully represented according to the constitution except one 3 inactive clubs were not represent and their […]
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