The Moment of the Year by Anton Kislyakov

At the European Junior and Under 23 Championships held in Bucharest, Romania from 9 to 18 September 2011 two Russian female athletes wanted to enter the competition in the 53kg bodyweight category: Mariia Lubina and Ksenia Maximova. [...]

Moment of the Year by Masashi Inoue

Japanese ace Hiromi Miyake is determined to deliver a strong performance at the London Olympics this summer to provide encouragement to those still feeling the effects of one of Japan’s worst-ever natural disasters. [...]

Memorable Moment by Sultan Shokbytov

A child can deceive when he cries, but he cannot succeed in deceiving when he laughs. An adult can deceive, when he laughs, but can also deceive when he cries. This is the law of nature.

But in the modern world all moves to that adult start to deceive even when they cry. [...]

Memorable Moment by Kornel Jancso

Each competition – World Championships especially – is full of noteworthy moments; the only question is which one will be burned in your memory forever. The Paris 2011 World Championships Paris, France, was no exception: dramatic fights for the medals abounded and the intensity of duels, the bitter fights, [...]

Memorable Moment by EBSNIK DIZDARI

Look at this boy! In fact, he is a World Champion. Daniel Godelli, was born in 1992 in Peqin, a small town in Central Albania with only 9.000 inhabitants. I think it is not easy to find such a small town where a World Champion has been grown up. He is only 19 years old, but already became World Champion in 2011 [...]

Moment of the Year by Nickolai Dolgopolov

Vasily Alexeev was an extraordinary figure – in all senses of the word. I remember flying with him back from Montreal in 1976. [...]

Moment of the Year by Janis Schmees

The moment had finally arrived and the United States Team was summoned into the meeting room in Paris, France [...]

Moment of the Year by Anikó Németh-Móra

In my 34 years (!) with the IWF, I have been fortunate enough to witness and partake in many emotional and uplifting moments that burned into my memory. [...]

Moment of the Year by Emanuel Reinke

The nightmare of Matthias Steiner came suddenly without any warning. In September in the training camp organized  [...]

Moment of the Year by Horacio Reis

Four years ago, the Pan American Games were held on home soil, in Rio de Janeiro. Fernando Reis was just 17 and participated in an experiment to become a real athlete.

Moment of the Year by Kulsoom Abdullah

People asked me what the experience was like?

My weightlifting journey started by myself, I was determined to build strength. I did what I could do on my own, finding information on the Internet, [...]

Moment of the Year by Paul Coffa

What a tragic World Championships it was for a young weightlifter from Palau, Stevick Patris – especially as it was his first ever World Championships.  [...]