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Online Registration to 2007 Royal WWC

Expecting a very high number of participating athletes, officials, media and visitors to the 2007 ChiangMai World Championships, in order to speed up the accreditation procedures, the Thai hosts are encouraging all participants to visit the homepage http://www.royalwwc2007.com and register online.

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2007 Royal WWC preparations in progress

A record number of nations – 94 – have so far indicated their participation in the 2007 Royal World Championships, a main Qualification Event for the Beijing Olympics, to take place 16-26 September in Chiangmai. Ten years after another great championship hosted by the city in Northern Thailand, the Organising Committee under the leadership of […]

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IWF Out of competition testing results

The IWF has carried out an extensive out of competition doping control testing in the past few month to try to ensure equal chances for all lifters at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships (WWC) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Based on the IWF Anti Doping rules all Adverse Analytical Findings (AAF) shall kept confidential until the cases […]

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Peruvian hosts celebrate first ever gold medal and team victory

On days Two, Three and Four of the 10th University World Cup, the medal distribution became more colorful as the neighbouring nations, USA, further Asians and Turkey also joined the line of winners in Peru. Meanwhile, Chinese men and women towered over their respective categories, wherever entered. The last day (12th August) with the two superheavyweight classes, saw […]

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Chinese students sweep all categories on first day in 2007 UWC

Both male and female Chinese competitors excelled in the four categories contested at the first day of the University Worlds in Callao (Region next to Lima) in Peru. The host country could also celebrate medals alongside other nations from Pan-America and Asia. Results are published on this homepage under events/results and you can follow the […]

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