IWF President visit boost for Bahrain President of the International Weightlifting Federation, His Excellency Mr. Mohammed Jalood Al Shammari, recently visited the Kingdom of Bahrain, during which he attended meetings with Bahrain sports leading figures. His visit also aimed to look into the Kingdom of Bahrain’s preparations to host the 2022 Asian Weightlifting Championships. The […]
With just 90 days to go until the start of the 2022 IWF World Championships, IWF opens the media registration for the first Paris 2024 Qualification event held between 5-16 December 2022 in Bogota, Colombia. Media registration is only available via the IWF media registration platform and the deadline of application is 31 November 2022. […]
The new International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board (EB) met virtually to discuss a number of pressing matters that will support the continued development of the federation. The upcoming IWF Athletes’ Commission (AC) election was discussed as Commission Chair Forrester Christopher Osei presented the changes the AC has made to the candidature forms for election, […]
On 23 August 2022 the new IWF leadership had its first official meeting with Mr Benjamin Cohen, Director General of the International Testing Agency (ITA) to discuss the future plan aimed at protecting clean athletes and promoting clean sport. On the meeting the IWF was represented by Mr Mohammed Jalood, IWF President, Mr Antonio […]
25th August 2022, Pan American Weightlifting Federation President, Mr. José Quiñones together with Colombian Weightlifting Federation President, Mr. William Peña met in Bogota, Colombia with Ms. Maria Isabel Urrutia, Minister of Sports of Colombia, Olympic Champion in weightlifting in Sydney, in 2000. During the meeting, IWF President, Mr. Mohammed Jalood joined virtually and expressed his confidence […]