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World Weightlifting’s brand new issue has appeared

In the 2010/2 edition readers can find a full preview of the upcoming main qualification event in Antalya. Moreover, it also includes the summary of the Junior World Championships held in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. You can subscribe to World Weightlifting by contacting IWF.

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Men’s last two categories wind up successful Youth Olympic Games

Singapore – 19 August 2010: The last two men’s categories – 85kg yesterday and +85kg this morning – wound up the 1st Youth Olympic Games in Singapore: for weightlifting an entirely successful debut. Suspense and drama were both prevalent in the men’s 85kg category, when Russian Alexey Kosov, after convincingly in the lead in snatch […]

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IOC Member tells remarkable story from YOG weightlifting

Last evening I attended the weightlifting event.  It was the 85kg weight class for young men.  There was a bit of a drama at the beginning because the athlete from Pakistan, Irfan BUTT was not yet properly entered.  There had been some difficulty in finding his coach. As it turned out, the young man did […]

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