León Review: Rizki and Olivia Reeves did it last time, now the stars of 2024 World Juniors are ready to shine
Updated: 2024-10-15 20:53:28
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 […]
Alberto Miglietta is the new President of the Italian Weightlifting Federation (FIPE), after the electoral assembly held this weekend in Rome (ITA). Mr Miglietta was chosen with 99.68% of favourable votes from the delegates and succeeds Antonio Urso in the leadership of the Italian national body. Mr Urso, also the IWF General Secretary, was at […]
The Norwegian city of Forde, host of the 2025 IWF World Championships, will organise this Saturday (October 12), an exciting one-year-to-go event, featuring both local and international weightlifting stars. The lineup in the women’s field includes Norway’s historical Olympic gold medallist Solfrid Koanda competing with the Olympic gold and silver medallist Maude Charron from Canada, […]
The 2024 IWF World Junior Championships, held from September 19-27 in Leon (ESP), produced great performances on a sport level, but registered another very significant milestone: it was the IWF event with the highest proportion of athletes tested before its start. Out of the 327 lifters attending the competition, 280 (85.6%) underwent at least one […]
The IWF National Federations have received on 3 October 2024 all the necessary information concerning the IWF Ordinary Congress to be held in Diplomat Radisson Blu Hotel in Manama, BRN on 4 December 2024. On the Invitation that was sent to our 194 Members, it was namely written: Due to exceptional circumstances, it is expected that some Member Federations […]