When Tuana Suren (TUR) won the final women’s contest of the 2023 IWF World Youth Championships in Durres, Albania on Saturday she made sure that Turkey would finish top of the medals table. Of the 57 nations that sent athletes to Durres, 30 had athletes on the podium. Among those who performed well were several nations that […]
USA and Ecuador shared the medals at stake in the sixth and last day of the Pan-American Championships, organised in Bariloche (ARG). In the four last finals of the event, the new continental champions were Dayana Mina Torres (ECU) in the women’s 87kg, and then US Mary Theisen-Lappen in the women’s +87kg, Wesley Kitts in […]
He was the last winner of the 2023 IWF World Youth Championships in Durres (ALB) and he earned gold in a very convincing way in the men’s +102kg category. Irakli Vekua, from Georgia, completed 16 years old on February 3 but has clear ideas about his future in weightlifting. For the time being, he was […]
For the third time in eight days a young Canadian was on the podium at the IWF World Youth Championships – a remarkable achievement for a nation that has never yet staged a national youth championship and never entered a youth athlete in an international competition until 2021. Turkey and Georgia had the last two […]
Athletes from the United States won two out of three events at stake in the fifth day of the Pan-American Championships, currently being held in Bariloche (ARG). In the men’s field, Nathan Damron was the best in the 96kg category (with a total of 340kg), while his teammate Ryan Sester is also continental champion in […]