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The IWF Constitution as well as the Technical and Competition Rules & Regulations 2013-2016 approved by the Congress in Baku in effect with 1 January 2013 are now published on the website. Click here

In the framework of the IWF Development Program and under the leadership of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation, a large scale Coaching and Technical Seminar was held for the Pacific Island Countries. The different events took place in Fiji, Tonga, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas, Federated States of Micronesia and Guam with Paul Coffa, OWF General Secretary […]

Russian weightlifting Olympic champion Arkady Vorobiev has died at the age of 88. “On December 22, the outstanding athlete and scientist, two-time Olympic champion Arkady Vorobiev died at the age of 88,” the federation said in a statement published on its website. Vorobiev won the gold medal at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne and […]

Dato Ong Poh Eng was elected president of the Malaysian Weightlifting Federation (MWF) at the MWF annual general meeting (AGM) Saturday 29 December. Also IWF Executive Board Member, he organized the 2010 IWF Continental Clubs Grand Prix, Commonwealth Championships and the 2011 Junior World Championships in Penang, Malaysia. Ong, who is also Penang Amateur Weightlifting […]

It is full speed ahead for British Weight Lifting’s plans for the next four years, after both UK Sport and Sport England agreed to increased levels of funding for 2013-17. UK Sport today announced an overall increase in funding for the governing body of 7.5 per cent, with their total figure for Olympic weightlifting and […]