A new addition to the IWF Calendar 2009! – With a view to the 1st Youth Olympic Games to be hosted by Singapore in 2010, a Youth World Championships will be held for the IWF youth age group (up to 17 years) sometime in May 2009, as the main Qualification event for the Games.Details of […]
Thirty-seven nations are represented in the Start List of the 1st official World University Championships under the auspices of FISU, an event just kicked off in Komotini, a University city in North-East of Greece.All categories among men and women are impressively fielded by representatives from university sports organisations all over the world, from Pan-America to […]
Young Iranian giant, Saied Alihosseini upset all previous Junior World Records in the +105kg category at the Asian Inter-Club Championships in Goyang City, Korea. Alihosseini changed the under-20 Snatch world record to 205kg, the Clean and Jerk Junior World Record to 241kg and thus the Total to 446kg in the Junior part of the Championships. […]
Since one of the two buildings of the new Oceania Institute will not be completed in time for the Opening Ceremony, the local Organising Committee and the IWF decided to postpone the World Cup from January to 3-7 May 2009. The IWF World Cup in Noumea, New Caledonia’s capital will be held in combination with […]