London 2012 is seeking to recruit a Weightlifting Services Manager responsible for the planning, organization, management and conduct of the administration functions of the Weightlifting event at the London 2012 Olympic Games and the Paralympic Powerlifting event at the Paralympic Games. Those interested in the position can get more details on the following link.
From the 515 athletes participating at the 2010 World Championships held in Antalya, Turkey 141 were subjected to doping control. The International Weightlifting Federation states that in its fight against doping, this high percentage (approximately 28% of the athletes competing in Antalya were tested) has to be maintained.
For the 5th time since the IWF has launched its Education Program it is running as a great success. The most recent edition of the lectures took place during the 2010 World Weightlifting Championships in Antalya on the 18th and the 22nd of September with translators working simultaneously in 4 languages: Chinese, Spanish, Russian and […]
At the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Weightlifting Championships Antalya, the Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, Mehmet Ali Sahin said during his inaugural speech that „There is one language which is spoken as a common one by mankind, and it’s the language of sports.” He also said that this competition will contribute to […]
Across both Europe and Asia there was extensive ‘live’ coverage of this year’s World Weightlifting Championships from Antalya, Turkey including: Eurosport’s pan European coverage to over sixty European countries in nineteen languages – plus Eurosport’s Asia/Pacific service to a further fourteen countries including Australia, Brunei, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tonga […]