With 46 sports and events, including 13 Olympic sports, the 2011 Arnold Sports Festival was held in Columbus, Ohio in the US. The festival has expanded into the world’s largest multi-sport weekend since its 1989 beginning. More than 100,000 sports fans came to see the competitions in a variety of more than 40 sports and […]
Our Newsletter SPO(R)TLIGHT reaches a broad audience and gives bi-weekly up to date information about our activities since its first edition on 5th October 2010. Besides the English version, we launched Spanish and Russian editions. To register for the English/Spanish or Russian version please go to the subscription link of the Newsletter on the IWF […]
The second day of the IWF World Anti-Doping Conference pursued with presentations giving a useful knowledge to the participants in order to bring us closer our main goal: eradicating doping in sport and fight even more determinedly in the future. Ms. Sophie Berwick, Venue Cluster Manager for the River Zone area LOCOG gave up to […]
The Iranian athlete Behdad Salimikordasiabi has been named the Best Male Lifter of 2010, while the Best Female Lifter of 2010 became Svetlana Podobedova from Kazakhstan. They earned significant number of votes and received the “Jenő Boskovics Lifter of the Year Trophy” from IWF President Dr. Tamás Aján and the World Weightlifting Magazine’s Editor in […]
Applications for London 2012 Olympic Games tickets are open. You can apply for tickets any time before 11.59pm on 26 April 2011. There is no advantage to submitting your application on the first day or the last day. Applications for Paralympic Games tickets will be open in September 2011 and will follow a similar sales […]