IWF Athletes and respective support personnel were recently invited to attend a “Clean Sport Webinar”, hosted by the International Testing Agency (ITA) on behalf of the IWF, on this Friday July 21, 2023. This online gathering will cover the following matters related to anti-doping strategy: Athlete and Athlete Support Personnel (coaches, doctors etc.) Roles & […]
Following the announcement of the project on April 21, the IWF is pleased to announce that it has selected the 10 lifters to be included in the IWF Athletes Direct Support Programme, as follows: Rachel ENOCK, KenyaDavis NIYOYITA, UgandaPark HYEJEONG, KoreaReza DEHDAR, IranTham NQUYEN, IrelandYusuf GENC, TurkeyMaria Luz CASADEVALL, ArgentinaOmarie MEARS, JamaicaDika Loa TOUA, Papua […]
More than 250 members and stakeholders of the global weightlifting family have so far been consulted as part of a process to develop a first-ever Strategic Plan for the IWF. It represents the largest and widest consultation in the federation’s history and comes a year after the election of a new IWF Executive Board with […]
The second edition of the Swiss Street Weightlifting successfully took place on July 8-9 in Lausanne (SUI), the Olympic capital. During the weekend, in a very central location of the city – the Flon – many hundreds of adults and children had the opportunity to see weightlifting exhibitions and even to have an initiation to […]
The IWF Secretary General Antonio Urso was recently in Lausanne (SUI) to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the International Testing Agency (ITA) and to sign the yearly contract renewal between the IWF and the ITA. This partnership, in place since 2019, includes most of the activities connected with the IWF anti-doping rules, namely the athletes’ […]