May 24, 2022 – Lausanne, Switzerland Today, the independent Eligibility Determination Panel (EDP) chaired by Swiss lawyer Gabriel Nigon released the official list of approved candidates for the upcoming IWF Electoral Congress. In a letter shared with the IWF Member Federations and candidates, Mr. Nigon, on behalf of the EDP, thanked all the candidates for their submission. […]
Weightlifting will once again feature at the Olympic Games, with five medal events for both men and women scheduled for Paris 2024. (…) After the excitement of Tokyo 2020, weightlifting will be once again back on the Olympic competition programme at Paris 2024 but with a number of differences compared to the last Olympic Games. […]
Parents and guardians of young athletes have many roles. As well as being their child’s number one fan, they are their taxi driver, nutritionist, psychologist. Alongside this, parents and guardians also have an important role in their child’s development as a clean athlete. This requires an understanding of anti-doping rules, and just as importantly, an […]
The entry list of the 2022 IWF Youth World Championships is now available here. Just as the entry lists of 2022 IWF Junior World Championships, this version includes the current ranking based on entry totals and it is automatically updated in case of any change in the athletes’ bodyweight category or entry totals.
IWF General Secretary, Mohammed Jalood visited the Southeast Asian Games currently running in Hanoi, Vietnam. This is the second time Vietnam is hosting the SEA Games, the first one being in 2003. The event was originally scheduled for 2021 but due to the COVID Pandemic it was postponed to 2022. Mr. Jalood also met the […]