Győző Veres, two times Olympic bronze medallist Hungarian weightlifter, and also World Champion of 1962 and 1963, died Tuesday at the age of 74 in Melbourne. Born in Berekböszörmény on 13 June 1936, he was the first Hungarian weightlifter winning the World Champion title. He laid the foundations of modern weightlifting in the early ’50s […]
The IWF continues supporting the National and Continental/Regional Federations in 2011 in the framework of the IWF Development Program. We are delighted that the IWF Member National Federations as well as the Continental and Regional Federations have the possibility again to develop their organizational, coaching, training, educational and anti-doping activities or improve in any other […]
The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, welcomed United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, where the two leaders reviewed the joint activities that the organisations had put in place in 2010 and reaffirmed their commitment to a number of upcoming initiatives using sport as a […]
Cyclones also hit the island of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Fortunately there were no human casualties but flash flooding caused enormous damage. The Oceania Weightlifting Institute was closed for a few days due to the institute being flooded. Water at one stage at the Institute was almost one metre high. The Institute is built very […]
Unprecedented weather has caused drastic loss and devastation in the Oceania region. The floods which have devastated the state of Queensland in Australia have also come with the tragedy of losing two members of the weightlifting family in Australia. On the 10th January, Steve and Sandra Matthews were swept away in tragic circumstances as a […]