As per the IWF Constitution, the annual membership fee for the affiliated National Federations is due in January of the year.This is the last call to those National Federations which have still not paid their 2009 membership fee of USD500 to the IWF to do so immediately, but latest before the IWF Congress on 14 […]
If the Olympics had a triathlon event that included balance beam, clean-and-jerk and sled push, Ingrid Marcum would be a lock to make the U.S. team. Marcum was an accomplished gymnast and still is an elite athlete in weightlifting and bobsled, a singular combination of athletic excellence yet one that so far has left her […]
The 1st EGAT Youth World Weightlifting Championships held in ChiangMai last month produced the first set of teams (National Federations) who will be able to send their athletes aged 16-17 in 2010 to Singapore, to the Youth Olympic Games. In accordance with the 2010 YOG Qualification Regulation, the following tables give the Youth Olympic slots […]
Former national weightlifter and Hall of Fame inductee Sum Kwok Seng, passed away on Saturday at the age of 84. The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) in a statement said, the late Sum was an active member of the Malaysian Amateur Weightlifting Federation (MAWF) from the 1950 to the 1990s. According to the statement, Sum […]