IOC Executive Board recommends 25 core sports for 2020 Games The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today agreed on the 25 sports it will propose to the 125th IOC Session for approval as the core sports for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The 25 sports are: athletics, rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, [...]

Dr. Patrick Schamasch, former IOC Medical Director – still IOC Advisor for Sotchi 2014 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games paid a visit to the International Weightlifting Federation’s offices in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Schamasch had a fruitful meeting with both the IWF President Dr. Tamas Ajan and the IWF General Secretary Ma Wenguang.

The IWF came out with a magnificent Book titled “LIFTING THE ROOF”, a full album of weightlifting at the 2012 Olympic Games. For those lucky enough to witness these unforgettable competitions “LIFTING THE ROOF” gives a chance to relive the fantastic memories and for others who watched weightlifting on TV it provides an insider look. [...]

International Sports Information System (ISIS) kick-off meeting was held today in Lausanne. The project, managed by ASOIF includes all Summer Olympic International Sports Federation and 25 International Federations participated at the meeting, including IWF represented by Attila Adamfi, Competition Director. The ISIS will create a Common Data Platform where data will be gathered form International [...]

Over 1,300 verified votes took part in the election of the Lifters of the Year for 2012 on this website, launched by World Weightlifting. Among the men, Iranian Behdad SALIMIKORDASIABI was elected as the Best Lifter for the last year by a large margin. Ilya ILYIN from Kazakhstan received the second largest number of votes [...]

At a recent visit to the Tatarstan capital, Kazan, FISU Technical Delegate Anikó Németh-Móra approved the competition venue for this summer’s Universiade. The “Ak Bure” (“White Wolf”) Sports Hall, now serving the one of Kazan’s ice hockey clubs, will be used for weightlifting at the University Games coming up in July. The construction of the [...]

The VII Mediterranean Weightlifting Cup was held in the southern Italian city of Brindisi on January 26. Twelve countries participated in the event that took place at the Palazzetto Leonardo Da Vinci sport centre. It was the first time in the history of the Mediterranean Cup, that athletes from Israel and Palestine competed in the [...]

On 25 January 2013, the Mediterranean Weightlifting Confederation held its elections with the participation of 12 countries: ALB, BIH, FRA, ESP, ITA, ISR, LBA, LIB, MAR, SLO, SMR, and TUN. Maurizio Lo Buono, single candidate, was reelected to another four years as President of the Mediterranean Weightlifting Confederation; the 1st Vice President is Mohamed Nadir [...]

The Call for Candidatures and the Candidature Forms have been sent to the Member Federations of the IWF by electronic mail and normal post. With that move, in accordance with the newly approved IWF Constitution and By-Laws, the candidature process began for the Elections that will be held at the IWF’s Moscow Congress on 20th [...]

The Austrian Weightlifting Federation held their election for the period 2013 to 2016 on 19th January 2013. Gerhard Peya is the new President, further Executive Board members are Gottfried Langthaler (Vice-President), Robert Horacek (Treasurer), Dipl.-Ing.Andreas Degwerth (Secretary), Katharina Rimböck-Peya (Referee Chairwoman), Markus Koch (Public Relation Manager), Ludwig Schadler, Ewald Fischer and Christian Kathrein (Vice Sport [...]

On Friday, 18th January a delegation from the International Powerlifting Federation, led by the IPF President Gaston Parage, visited Budapest for a meeting with the IWF President,  Dr. Tamás Aján. Mr. Gaston Parage is also the General Secretary of the Luxembourg Weightlifting Federation. Background of this visit in the beautiful City of Budapest was to inform Dr. Aján, who is  [...]