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RFWF delegation meets IWF President

The IWF regularly consults the leadership of the leading Weightlifting Federations. This time, the Delegation of the Russian Weightlifting Federation paid a visit to the IWF Secretariat to discuss topical items of the cooperation.

IWF President Dr. Tamas Ajan met the delegation which consisted of Sergey Syrtsov, RFWF President and Maxim Agapitov, RFWF Vice-President.

In the focus of discussions was the Junior World Championships to be held in Kazan, RUS from 20-28 June2014 as well as the 2014 Edition of the traditional President’s Cup.

The Russian Federation which is one of the leading powers of the sport has made an offer to provide qualified coaches for engagement in countries that wish to hire. A procedure about the application will be published soon.