The 2016 IWF Youth World Championships will be held in Penang on 19-25 October. The deadline to send your Final Entry Forms and related documents is 25 September 2016. All documents can be found on the IWF website, make sure to send them on time.
Madame Boossaba Yodbangtoey was re-elected as President of the Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association (TAWA) unanimously with the eligible votes from all weightlifting clubs in Thailand. She will hold the President position for a second consecutive term from 2016 to 2020. The congress, annual meeting and presidential election was perfectly organized last week in Bangkok Thailand, […]
The IWF reports that as a consequence of the IOC’s reanalyses of samples from the 2012 London Olympic Games, the sample of the following Athlete has returned with an Adverse Analytical Finding: CIRICU, Anatoli (MDA) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (S1.1 Anabolic agents) In line with the relevant rules and regulations, the IWF imposed mandatory provisional suspensions upon […]
DEARBORN, Mich. – A four-time Olympian and metro Detroit native died Wednesday night. Norbert “Norb” Schemansky, of Dearborn, died while he was being cared for in hospice. He was 92. Schemansky was an American weightlifter and the first to win four Olympic medals during his career. He won a silver medal in his first Olympic […]
By Brian Oliver in Rio de Janeiro A ‘brains trust’ of Olympic weightlifting competition managers met in Rio to talk about times past and future. There was Wang Yan from Beijing 2008, Matthew Curtain from London 2012, Pedro Meloni from Rio 2016 and the woman who will be in charge for Tokyo 2020, Reiko Chinen. […]