Weightlifting will line up a record number of nations at the Beijing Olympic Games: 85. /The previous record was set up in Atlanta by 77 nations/ The following countries will send weightlifters for the first time to the Olympic Games: – from Africa: RSA (South Africa) – from Asia: KSA (Saudi Arabia), TJK (Tajikistan), VIE […]
Lausanne, Switzerland � An agreement between the Iraqi government and the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday clears the way for Iraqi participation in the Olympic Games in Beijing. In a productive meeting at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, the IOC and the Government of Iraq agreed on a series of steps that will lead to […]
Since the WADA accredited laboratories are completely overloaded with pre-Olympic sample analysis, the samples from the IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships are not yet finished. We hope that before the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games we will be able to announce the final ranking list of the competition!
Olympic Champion in the +105kg at Sydney and Athens, *Hossein Rezazadeh *(IRI) announced that for health reasons and on medical advice he would not participate in Beijing.
Olympic champion (weight category under 105 kg) Dmitriy Berestov will miss Beijing Games because of backbone’s hernia. In April Berestov returned after 2 years of disqualification caused by positive non-contest doping-test. He had won European championships in Lingano Sabbiadoro though had suffered leg injury during the snatch. “I totally recovered, but never stopped training, – […]