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Lima awarded 2019 Pan American and Parapan Games

Peru’s capital city Lima was today awarded the 2019 Pan American and Parapan Games after winning in the first round of voting. Lima won the right to host the Games for the first time after finishing ahead of Chilean capital Santiago, La Punta in Argentina and Ciudad Bolivar in Venezuela. Lima justified its position as […]

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Final Entries are up!

The IWF published the Final Entries for the 2013 IWF World Championships. All delegations are invited to participate at the Verification of Final Entries (VFE) to be held at 19:00 on 18 October in Hotel Orbis Wroclaw. Please remember that according to IWF TCRR 6.2.2 “A copy of each participating athlete’s passport must be presented […]

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Join us at the IWF Education Program in Wroclaw

We are happy to inform you that the IWF will hold two Education Seminars during the 2013 IWF World Championships in Wroclaw. We kindly invite all our Member Federations to participate! 21st October, 10:00 a.m. in Hotel ORBIS 23rd October, 10:00 a.m. in Hotel ORBIS The main topics will be: Anti-Doping, Nutritional supplements, ADAMS YOG, […]

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Elections of the Hellenic Weightlifting Federation

The elections for the Executive Board of Hellenic Federation took place on 29 September 2013. The composition of the new Executive Board is as follows: President: Pyrros Dimas Vice President: Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Anastasios Lagas, Evangelos Prokopidis General Secretary: Dimitrios Valasiadis Assistant Secretary: Charalampos Sfakianakis Treasurer: Maria Pantikidou Deputy Treasurer: Konstantinos Korlos Members: Vasi leios Georgiadis, […]

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Amended IWF TCRR published

During the IWF EB meeting in Beijing, the IWF TCRR has been amended, including clarifications and typing error corrections, but no essential rule changes. The amended version (IWF TCRR August 2013) has been uploaded to the website and can be accessed here.

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