The junior athletes taking part in the first competition of the Busan Junior World Championships, the 56kg category very well exploited the possibilities provided by the new 1-kilo rule in force since 1st May 2005. At what was the first major test of the new choice for the weight of the barbell, the participants quickly [...]

The second hundred years of the IWF will begin with a historic change in the sport of weightlifting. The progression of the weight of the barbell by 2.5-kg increments in competition, and by 0.5-kg increments for the records will be replaced by the new and universal standard of 1-kilo multiples, starting with 1st May 2005. [...]

It is with deep sorrow that we have to inform the World Weightlifting Family that our dear colleague and friend, an IWF Executive member since 1984, Ing. Jaromir Vitek (Czech Republic) passed away at the age of 71 years. A truly honest man with a great devotion to the sport of weightlifting, of which he [...]

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 [...]

Right on the next day following the elections, the IWF’s new Executive Board held its first meeting in Istanbul. The Board decided about the reallocation of the 2006 World Championships, after having studied 3 very strong candidatures: Azerbaijan, Dominica and Peru. Finally, the Dominican Republic’s Weightlifting Federation was selected to carry out the World Championships [...]

ELEIKO Scholarship applications available for 2005

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 [...]