The list of the 122 lifters competing in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been finalised and is now available here. It comprises the 120 athletes who completed the qualification process, plus the two competitors who are part of the IOC Refugee Team. At the end of this procedure, we now know the start list […]
After being the first-ever weightlifter from Palestine to compete at the Olympics – he was 13th in the 96kg category in Tokyo 2020ne – Mohammed Hamada is confident in obtaining a universality place for the upcoming Games, in Paris. At 22, Hamada arrived this weekend in Doha, Qatar, where the local federation will provide him […]
The IWF is happy to announce the 2023 statistics concerning its Anti-Doping activities, in co-operation with the ITA (International Testing Agency). Last year, a total of 3192 samples were collected around the world, including 1766 in-competition and 1426 out-of-competition. Moreover, in terms of urine/blood proportion, there were respectively 2403 and 789 samples. This amount of collected samples resulted in […]
Canada had a 1-2 in the women’s super-heavyweights when the World Youth Championships came to a close in Lima, Peru. Etta Love, who was third last year, came out after everybody else had finished and won with a career-best total of 243kg. Her team-mate Angel Billen was 24kg back in second place and Karen Mancilla […]