Colombia take team honours and American Reeves stars at Pan American Games weightlifting
Updated: 2023-10-27 15:26:26
Colombia topped the weightlifting medals table at the Pan American Games at Santiago in Chile, where the star individual performer was the 20-year-old American Olivia Reeves. Reeves set two junior world records at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Saudi Arabia in September and followed up in Chile with a sweep of continental […]
After the mixed team event during the EYOF in July in Maribor, the European weightlifting family happily returned to Slovenia for the 9th edition of the European Union Cup, organised at the Sport Faculty of the University of Ljubljana on October 13-14. The competition focused on the youth, with teams from 13 countries consisting of […]
Weightlifting has today been confirmed on the programme of the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028, following a vote of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Mumbai, India. It comes after the IOC Executive Board and Olympic Programme Commission recommended the sport for inclusion as part of their discussions last week. Today’s news […]
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) welcomes today’s recommendation that weightlifting be confirmed on the programme of the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028. The proposal, made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Programme Commission and approved by the IOC Executive Board, will be final if it is ratified by a vote of the IOC Session […]
After eight days of intense competition at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, the team honours went to DPRK and the top individual was Liu Huanhua from China. Seven world champions were beaten, but that was hardly surprising given they had less than four weeks between winning in Riyadh last month and lifting again in […]
The month of November will be a busy one in terms of anti-doping education, with the staging of five webinars by the International Testing Agency (ITA). Every Tuesday, from November 7 to December 5, all participants will be able to be briefed and discuss on several topics related to anti-doping. For the weightlifting family, this initiative is part of the […]