National Federations can send their nominations for Technical Officials (jury, referees, doctors, technical controllers) for selection to work at the 2006 Olympic Qualification World Championships in Santo Domingo, DOM. The Nomination Form can be downloaded here: Tech Off Nomination Form 2006 S Domingo.doc Deadline for nominations: 20 July 2006. As a reminder: the IWF Annual Congress [...]

The IOC Olympic Solidarity allocated its Olympic Scholarships for Athletes ?Beijing 2008? and as many as 43 weightlifters are among the awardees. The primary aim of the Olympic Scholarship is for the athlete to qualify for the Beijing Olympic Games and it includes an important subvention on a monthly basis, providing for an effective and [...]

The category of the heaviest juniors (+105kg) concluded with a big surprise. Newcomer 18-year old Iranian Saeid ALIHOSSEINI captured the gold medal in total. With his success, the superheavy champion?s titles are now retained by Iran both among the seniors (REZA ZADEH) and the juniors. The battle for the medals was unusually close: only 3 [...]

The prolonged Russia vs. Kazakhstan duel eventually concluded in a success for the former in the 105kg category for men. The snatch was won by Belorussian Sergey ISTOMIN, but only on bodyweight over Russian Igor MERKUSHOV. In clean and jerk the Russian gained a massive 8-kg lead and pushed ISTOMIN back into bronze-medal position. MERKUSHOV [...]

Still one year away from running out of the junior age group (19 years old), Katsiaryna SHKURATAVA of Belarus collected three silver medals last year. This time, in the last women?s competition in Hangzhou, the +75kg, she performed a total eleven kilos more than in 2005: the 258kg gave her two gold medals. Her strong [...]

Kazakhstan?s 18-year old prodigy ? Ilya ILIN -  picked up the thread where he dropped it in 2005. Before last year he was unknown to the weightlifting world, but he came, a 17-year old young man, and captured the junior then the senior world championships titles. No wonder he was elected Best Lifter of 2005. [...]

The first senior world record was born in the women?s 75kg at the Junior World Championships. Russian Svetlana PODOBEDOVA had already boasted both senior and junior world records in snatch and in total. This time in Hangzhou, she changed her compatriot?s Natalia ZABOLOTNAIA?s total record from 285kg to 286kg. By now, PODOBEDOVA has a collection [...]

In what was so far the most exciting competition of the Junior World Championships, the Chinese competitor came out victorious. In the men?s 77kg, SU Dajin ? unknown to the international stage ? preceded last year?s junior bronze medallist, Polish Mikalai CHARNIAK by the smallest one kilo margin. The bronze went to Alexei YUFKIN of [...]

In the women?s 58kg class, GU Wei, the defender of the world title and holder of all the world records, surprised enormously capturing only third place in total ? despite the familiar environment in Hangzhou, China. She fell 36kg behind her own record. Two women outclassed her: Svetlana TSARUKAEVA (RUS) and PEREZ Mercedes (COL), lifting [...]

After three competitions at the 2006 Junior World Championships in Hangzhou, China, Europe has only two medals, thanks to Genny PAGLIARO, Italy, in the women?s 48kg. As expected, Asian competitors dominate. In the men?s 56kg, Chinese LI Zheng performed a great bravura: taking the junior world title with a total five kilos higher than the [...]

The 2006 Junior World Championships were launched today in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, China. 103 female and 118 male competitors up to the age of 20 years representing 44 countries are expected to perform in the next 7 days on the platform of the magnificent Sports Center in an event that is generally considered [...]

Last year’s world champion and Olympic Games silver medallist JANG Mi-Ran of Korea set two new world records in the +75kg category at the International Friendship Weightlifting Tournament recently held in Wonju, Korea. JANG improved the Snatch record to 138kg, but – more importantly – she brought up the so far best total for the [...]