IWF Director General, Attila Adamfi paid an initial technical visit to Anaheim, USA, host of the 2017 IWF World Championships. Welcomed by Phil Andrews, CEO USA Weightlifting and Roy Edmondson, Vice President of Sports Anaheim they inspected the Venue and the hotels. The Anaheim Convention Center will accommodate the meetings, trainings and competitions under one […]
On 9th December 2016 the Independent Person (IP) investigative Commission appointed by WADA and chaired by Richard McLaren published the second part of its report claiming that more than 1,000 Russian athletes – in summer and winter Olympic sports as well as Paralympic athletes are involved in the state-sponsored doping scheme. The Report discloses that […]
One hundred and nine years ago on 9th December 1907, Robert Fein, the Austrian weightlifter was born, who became lightweight Gold medallist at the Berlin Olympic Games 1936 in an unprecedented tie for the first place. Fein got as far as 342,5 kg in total, the best in the competition, but Egyptian Anwar Mesbah performed the same result. […]
The Rio 2016 Olympic Games were iconic in so many respects. Over the course of 16 glorious days, it witnessed new records, personal bests, great emotions and inspiring sportsmanship that only the magic of the Olympic Games can create. “Someone called them the most perfect imperfect Games,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. “It’s actually quite […]
Elections took place in the Hellenic Weightlifting Federation this autumn, whereby Dimitris Valasiadis was re-elected to the President’s position and Konstantinos Korlos was confirmed as General Secretary.