The IWF wishes to add an explanatory note to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Qualification Regulation in order to help its members in better understanding the system. For a clear picture you can refer to the Qualification Regulation, however, we wish to note that in addition to the World and Continental Championships, only the following two […]
Following the endless commitment to fight against doping, specially that 2008 is an Olympic year the IWF conducting numerous Out-of-Competition doping controls in all member countries. As an unfortunate outcome of our strong fight the IWF confirms that an unannounced Out-of-Competition doping control took place in Greece on the 7th March 2008. 13 athletes were […]
Hungary’s Olympic Champion weightlifter, who took the gold medal in Moscow, 1980, after having won bronze in the Montreal Games in 1976, Péter BACZAKÓ died in Budapest at the young age of 56 years.Baczakó won Hungary’s 111th Olympic gold medal, which was at the same time the second Olympic title in weightlifting. He was also three times […]
Thanks to the enthusiastic New Zealand Federation, the Oceania Championships, at the same time the chance for Olympic qualification for the continent’s countries, was held at a high level in Auckland.The Olympic Qualification Team Classification was open till the last but one attempt in the +105kg category where AUS defeted NRU in a dramatic fight with […]
Four years after the last Electoral Congress (Istanbul, 2005), the International Weightlifting Federation will organise its next most important administrative gathering in Madrid, on 31 March and 1 April 2009.Accepting the invitation and the offer of the Spanish Weightlifting Federation, the Executive Board decided that the IWF Family should meet in Madrid to elect its […]