Iran’s double Olympic champion, Hossein Rezazadeh, has been named as the manager and head coach of Iran’s national weightlifting team. Rezazadeh, known as the Iranian Hercules, was chosen by the Weightlifting Federation Technical Committee on Saturday morning. The 30-year-old weightlifter suffered a knee injury last year and has not taken part in international competition since. […]
Janusz Przedpelski (82), Honorary IWF Vice President, EWF President and President of the Polish Weightlifting Federation for 50 years, was buried in Warsaw, Poland, on 4th September 2008. Poland’s past and present champion lifters stood guard of honour by his bier, among them Szymon Kolecki and Marcin Dolega On behalf of the International Weightlifting Federation, […]
JANUSZ PRZEDPELSKI, the most senior President of a national Weightlifting Federations died at the age of 81 years. He would have been 82 on 9th September. He aged almost 82, withdrawn from the leadership of the Polish Federation.two years ago. He was, amongst other things, President of the Polish Federation from 1969 until 2006, for […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announceD the list of the flag bearers for the 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participating in the Closing Ceremony of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing. We had seven weightlifters among them. Eva Marias Dimas, El SalvadorItte Detenamo, NauruDika Toua, Papua New GuineaMaama Lolohea, Tonga and three new […]