Both the women’s and the men’s Grand Prix titles were captured by the champions of the home country on the first day of the International Baku Cup. According to the start list, in the women’s 53kg, local favourite Cristina Iovu, silver medallist of the recent World Championships, had to face challenge from Mo Fengjiao, however, the Chinese was unable […]
The IWF President, Dr Tamás Aján, currently in Azerbaijan on the occasion of the 2nd International Baku Cup, today continued a series of discussions – started earlier – with Azerbaijan’s Minister of Sport, Olympic Committee and Weightlifting Federation leaders about the possible inclusion of weightlifting in the program of the 1st European Games. Baku will […]
At a meeting held in Astana on 27 November 2013, Zhanat Tusupbekov was elected President of the Kazakh Weightlifting Federation. Zhanat Tusupbekov is Director General of The Rompetrol Group. The new General Secretary of the Kazakh Weightlifting Federation is Dimash Sultanov. The former President Kairat Turlykhanov became Honorary President.
Vasily Alexeev, double Olympic champion in Munich 1972 and in Montreal 1976, eight times World Champion passed away on 25 November 2011. At a Ceremony held exactly two years after his death, a Memorial was inaugurated in Shakhty to commemorate the outstanding achievements of this legend of weightlifting and great figure of Russian sport. As […]
In its ongoing effort to support athletes and doping-free sport, WADA has launched the free ADAMS app for smartphones to more than 25,000 athletes worldwide. The app, which is available immediately to athletes using iPhone devices at the iTunes App Store will be of particular interest to those athletes in a registered testing pool who […]