Anikó Németh-Móra, Director, and Attila Ádámfi, Competition Director, who arrived in Chiangmai, site of the 2007 Qualification World Championships on 10 September, stated that the Thai hosts were well on time with the preparations to welcome the Weightlifting Family. TAWA Organizing Committee has set up its facilities in the two hotels offering hospitality to the [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

36 years after the last Weightlifting World Championships held in Lima, a total of 128 weightlifters are expected to participate in the University World Cup, running from 9th to 12th of August in Callao, next to the Peruvian capital. A strong Pan-American presence is also noted. Chinese excelled in the first two categories (56kg men [...]

This is to remind all National Federations that the deadline to submit Final Entries to the 10th University Word Cup 2007, Lima is 25th July. In order to comply with FISU Rules, to prove the eligibility of your athletes to the competition, please fill out and send back together with the Final Entry forms the attached FISU [...]

Dr. Sonny Lumban Tobing (Indonesia) passed away at the age of 62 years on 4 July 2007 in Jakarta, having suffered a stroke. The untimely and unexpected end took away a man everybody used to like: a quiet, always smiling, devoted, generous and gentle person. Dr. Tobing served the sport of weightlifting for decades; i.a. [...]

Following an intervention by the IWF, as a gesture of friendship and goodwill, the Organizing Committee and the Thai Government agreed to reduce the daily room and board rates for the 2007 Chiangmai World Championships to US$100 per person in double room, and to US$130 per person in single room (in 5 star hotels). More [...]

The schedule of the 2008 Junior World Championships, which will take place in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, has been fixed between the Canadian Weightlifting Federation and the IWF. IWF Committee meetings: 11th June; Executive Board will meet on 12th June; IWF General Congress and Opening Ceremony: 13th June; Competitions: 14th to 20th June 2008. The IWF [...]

Mercedes Perez (227kg in 63kg) of Colombia was chosen to receive the ELEIKO-IWF Press Commission’s Best Female Lifter Trophy of this year’s edition of Junior World Championships, held in Prague. Perez helped her team of seven members to gold medals and to becoming winner of the team ranking over China, which brought only six lifters [...]

National Federations may forward the nomination of Technical Officials to the IWF, before 30 June 2007, to the 2007 World Championships.You can read the conditions of the nomination here: TOff_call_letter.pdf Download Nomination Form: TONomForm.doc