John Garhammer Clinic at American Open – USA weightlifting is proud to present a free clinic at the American Open in Mobile, AL, featuring world renowned biomechanist, Dr. John Garhammer. Dr. Garhammer will present Saturday night December 12th, following the final session of lifting. The clinic is titled: A History of Weightlifting Technique. The information […]
Armenia’s women weightlifters taking part at the World Weightlifting Championships in Goyang, returned home with gold and bronze medals. Gold medalist Nazik Avdalyan (69 kg) says the final results weren’t as important to her as being able to perform her best. “Honestly, I wasn’t thinking about winning. I wanted to justify the hope placed on […]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) celebrated the 10th Anniversary of its foundation on 1-2 December 2009 in Stockholm. At the Jubilee celebrations WADA Foundation Board Member Dr. Tamás Aján, IWF President, was among the few honoured for their valuable contributions to the activities of this organisation. Dr. Aján: “We founded WADA in February 1999 in Lausanne […]
The IWF is on the way of further tightening its already very severe anti-doping program and policy. In addition to the “regular” IWF-procedure of anti-doping controls (urine samples) involving more than 30% of the participating athletes, for the first time in history, the IWF took blood samples as well at the 2009 Goyang World Championships […]