With exactly a month to go until the start of the Olympic Games on July 27, promotion of London as the host city moved into top gear with the positioning of a set of giant aluminium Olympic rings suspended from the landmark Tower Bridge above the River Thames. The rings, costing £312,817 ($488,042) to produce […]
The 5 Continental Qualification events ended and the IWF has concluded the Qualification process including Individual Qualifications, Tripartite Commission Invitation places (wild cards) and Reallocations. As the result of the implementation of the Qualification Regulation, 84 NOCs from all the 5 Continents obtained quota. Please click here to find the chart containing the up-to-date data.
The 22nd Men and 20th Women European Masters Weightlifting Championships were held from 2 to 9 June 2012 at the Olympic Sport Complex in Lankaran, Azerbaijan. Nearly 300 athletes out of 25 countries competed at the event. The Azerbaijan National Team was represented by 4 female and 33 male athletes. In the Men’s Team Classification, […]
From 18th to 20th June, Attila Adamfi, Technical Delegate and Aniko Nemeth-Mora, IWF Director paid the last in the line of Technical Visits to London. During their meetings all departments and groups of the Games Organising Committee gave updates and preparations for welcoming Weightlifting in London were fine-tuned. The visit to ExCel, the Olympic venue […]
Weightlifter Khadija Mohammad on Thursday became only the second woman to be chosen for the United Arab Emirates Olympic team. The athlete, who will compete in the 75kg category in London, was named after the country’s women’s weightlifters secured one place at the London Games by finishing fifth in the Asian Championships in South Korea […]