León Review: Rizki and Olivia Reeves did it last time, now the stars of 2024 World Juniors are ready to shine
Updated: 2024-09-30 20:03:51
Before the 2024 Championships ended in León, Spain last week, the last time a World Junior Championships was held in an Olympic year was in 2021 in Tashkent. Among the winners in the Uzbekistan capital were the Paris 2024 Olympic champions Rizki Juniansyah from Indonesia and Olivia Reeves from the United States. Few people outside their own […]
The 2024 World Junior Championships ended with super-heavyweight victories for Cuba in the women and Korea in the men, and a first world record for Canada since the 1950s. Marifelix Sarria became Cuba’s first ever junior world champion when she made all six lifts for a wide-margin success. Sarria, 20 last month, improved her best […]
Two world records, another “holiday” victory for the champion from Turkmenistan, seven lifts of 200kg or more and an unforgettable arrival on the world stage for a Brazilian teenager. Those were some of the features of the most entertaining session so far at the World Junior Championships in León, Spain. There were two competitions within […]
Yekta Jamali made her mark in her sport’s history today when she became the first member of the Weightlifting Refugee Team to win medals. Jamali, who left Iran in 2022 and lives in Germany, finished third behind the Armenian Emma Poghosyan in the women’s 81kg on day seven of the World Junior Championships in León, Spain. By […]
Yedige Yemberdi is a name to remember. If his numbers are remarkable – four wins in four international competitions and 11 good clean and jerks in a row – his stage presence is even more impressive. For the second straight year 19-year-old Yemberdi, from Kazakhstan, overcame a big deficit in snatch to claim the junior […]
Around 75 participants in the IWF World Junior Championships, including athletes and support personnel, gathered this morning in the competition venue in Leon (ESP) for the IWF/ITA Clean Sport Seminar, an important educational tool to disseminate information on IWF’s Anti-Doping programme. This initiative normally takes place at IWF events and is lectured by an ITA […]