The Weightlifting Competition came to end yesterday in Delhi, India at the XIXth Commonwealth Games with the Men’s +105kg bodyweight category.According to the Entry List, 204 weightlifters competed during the Games with the determination of winning medals for their countries. The competition proved to be exciting, and the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was full of curious […]
The Commonwealth Weightlifting Federation Electoral Congress was held in Delhi, India during the last day of Competition on the 11th of October 2010. The Banquet Hall of the Ashok Hotel gave place to the meeting where besides the IWF President Dr. Tamás Aján the Commonwealth Games Federation’s two top officials Michael Fennell, President and Mike […]
A check of 3,000 dollars and a brand new set of ELEIKO barbells was the first prize of the 2nd International Tournament in Memoriam Janusz Przedpelski, that took place in a perfect technical and atmospheric setting in Spala, on 9th October 2010. The lineup included world champions and other prominent lifters from Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine […]
The invaluable merits of the late Janusz Przedpelski, President of the Polish Federation through a record 46 years, founder and first President of the EWF, are not forgotten in his country. In the presence of dignitaries of Polish Sport, TV, media, the IWF’s Director and the Przedpelski family, a commemorative stone and plaque was unveiled […]
One of the oldest, strongest and most successful of the 187 IWF affiliated National Federations, the Polish Weightlifting Federation (PZPC) celebrated the 85th Anniversary of its Foundation on 9th October 2010. A commemorative Executive Committee meeting of the Federation took place under the chairmanship of Zygmunt Wasiela, President, in Spala, one of Poland’s 7 top […]