On 4th March 2005 in Istanbul, the delegates from 5 continents representing 112 countries settled down to the important business of the quadrennial Congress of the IWF. After the reports of the IWF President, General Secretary and Committee Chairmen, two new members were affiliated to the Federation: Scotland and Oman. With them, the IWF’s membership […]
P class=szoveg>In agreement with the IWF, the Qatar Organising Committee confirmed the final dates of the 2005 Centenary World Championships in Doha: 9-21 November 2005. The time schedule within this period will soon be finalized.
The 21-member Executive Board of the IWF, complete with Dr. Patrick Schamasch, Medical Director of the IOC, Tom Dielen, European Director of WADA, as well as experts from eight further European, Asian and Panamerican countries, held its extraordinary meeting in Budapest, on 2nd and 3rd February 2005. The primary objective of the meeting was to […]
Visitors of our website must have noticed an approximately week-long interruption in the operation of www.iwf.net around the turn of 2004 and 2005. We feel we owe you an explanation for this failure which obviously caused some annoyment for those interested in weightlifting and in the IWF and wishing to visit our homepage. Our traditional […]