The ChiangMai Worlds in photos
Photos of the wonderful and colourful events of the Royal WWC now appearing on this website. Please go to Photo Gallery
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World Championships live on the web – Immediate Results here
Live webcasting from ChiangMai is provided for subscribers – outside Europe – at www.jalipo.com. Go to Live Events. At the same time, as usual, we publish the Results immediately after each category’s A Group on this website. http://www.iwf.net/events/results/results_search.php
Royal World Championships kicked off in ChiangMai
HRH The Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Thailand declared the 2007 Royal World Weightlifting Championships open in ChiangMai yesterday. The Opening Ceremony was a spectacular show in true Thai Royal style, worthy of what may become the biggest World Championships in history. According the Start List, even the all-time record attendance of Athens 1999 […]
Paris can organise the 2011 World Championships
The allocation of the 2011 Olympic Qualification World Championships was one of the key items on the agenda of the IWF Executive Board at its ChiangMai meeting today. Two equally strong candidates – Los Angeles, California, USA, and Paris, France – presented brilliant bids rated by IWF President Dr. Aján as being on par with […]
“In Chiangmai preparations are very well advanced” – say IWF officials
Anikó Németh-Móra, Director, and Attila Ádámfi, Competition Director, who arrived in Chiangmai, site of the 2007 Qualification World Championships on 10 September, stated that the Thai hosts were well on time with the preparations to welcome the Weightlifting Family. TAWA Organizing Committee has set up its facilities in the two hotels offering hospitality to the […]