The 2014 IWF Junior World Championships Kazan, Russia ended with great medal distribution: 12 countries won Gold Medals while 22 countries from 4 continents won Medals at the competition. Altogether 109 Women from 30 countries participated while for Men it was 135 lifters from 40 countries. According to the Team classification, the first 6 best […]
The list of NOCs participating at the 2014 Nanjing YOG has been finalized. The qualification events concluded on 31 May 2014 with the Oceania competition. Universality places were previously allocated to the eligible NOCs and the process concluded with the reallocations strictly in line with the IOC approved Qualification Regulation. Altogether 64 NOCs from all […]
Chile Weightlifting Federation Elections held its elections on June 28 2014, where the following people were elected to the executive board and commissions, for a period of 4 years: Executive Board President: Italo Barattini Vice President: Esteban Villa-Lobos General Secretary: Roberto Meza Treasurer: Juan Carlos Aburto Director: Rodolfo Murillo Ethics Commission Members Claus Westphal Rodrigo […]
The International Weightlifting Federation and the Tunisian Weightlifting Federation mourns the death of 19 year old OUERTANI Marouan who tragically passed away yesterday in Tunisia. Promising young and talented athlete, OUERTANI competed in the 62kg bodyweight category. 2014 African Junior Champion, he won 3 Bronze Medals at the 2014 IWF Junior World Championships Kazan, RUS […]
Men’s 105kg The 17 years old KUROUSKI Rychard’s (BLR) lifted 177kg and won the Gold in the Snatch. With 7kg less than the Polish lifter in the Clean & Jerk he got only Silver, but still managed to make it to the highest sstage of the podium with a Total of 378kg. After a strong […]