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Deadline Reminder: 2015 IWF World Championships Houston Final Entries
Member Federations are herewith reminded that the deadline for submitting the Final Entries to the 2015 IWF World Championships Houston, USA is running out tomorrow! Please submit your Final Entries without any regard to your current VISA status. In case you have not yet submitted the Final Entry, here is your last chance to do
Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships results and info
The 2015 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships are ending tomorrow in Pune, India. 22 countries are participating with 181 lifters. Check out the website of the event for results and more info: http://commonwealthweightlifting.com/ Watch the webcast here:
Continental statistics
With less than 1 year to go to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, results reached at weightlifting calendar events and especially Continental competitions can bring us some interesting statistics. The 5 Continental Championships / Games held in 2015 were as follows: European Championships Tbilisi, GEO Oceanian Championships Port Moresby, PNG Pan-American Games Toronto, CAN Asian Championships Phuket, THA African Games Brazzaville, CGO The first statistical chart compiles the points given to the best 6 Total places from each continent by bodyweight categories. Making a theoretical attribution of points, the second chart is a potential ranking allowing the countries to have an insight in what their current results worth on a continental level. The third chart presents the potential ranking by countries following the same structure. The point structure attribution is as follows: 1st place 7 points 2nd place 5 points 3rd place 4 points 4th place 3 points 5th place 2 points 6th place 1 point At the end you can find a combined ranking list in each bodyweight category including the best 6 from each Continental
Continental statistics
With less than 1 year to go to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, results reached at weightlifting calendar events and especially Continental competitions can bring us some interesting statistics. The 5 Continental Championships / Games held in 2015 were as follows: European Championships Tbilisi, GEO Oceanian Championships Port Moresby, PNG Pan-American Games Toronto, CAN Asian Championships Phuket, THA African Games Brazzaville, CGO The first statistical chart compiles the points given to the best 6 Total places from each continent by bodyweight categories. Making a theoretical attribution of points, the second chart is a potential ranking allowing the countries to have an insight in what their current results worth on a continental level. The third chart presents the potential ranking by countries following the same structure. The point structure attribution is as follows: 1st place 7 points 2nd place 5 points 3rd place 4 points 4th place 3 points 5th place 2 points 6th place 1 point At the end you can find a combined ranking list in each bodyweight category including the best 6 from each Continental
PUBLIC DISCLOSURE
The IWF reports that sample of Ms. Faina Sivanbayeva (KAZ) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for (S1.1 Anabolic Agents) dehydrochloromethyltestosterone. As a consequence, the athlete is provisionally suspended in view of a potential anti-doping rule violation. In any case where it is determined that the athlete did not commit an anti-doping rule violation, the relevant decision will also be
WARNING
On 16 September 2015, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Executive Committee approved the 2016 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods, which will come into force on 1 January 2016. You may find the new list here The IWF Anti-Doping Commission would like to specifically call everyone’s attention to a new prohibited substance called MILDRONATE (Meldonium) which was in the WADA Monitoring Program in 2015 and will be prohibited from the 1st January 2016. The most used trade names for the substance are: mildronate, meldonium, Quaterin, Kvaretin, THP. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list. There may be other medications, supplements which could contain mildronate (labelled or not labelled). According to recent scientific publications of the WADA accredited laboratories Cologne and Moscow, 2-17 % of doping control samples collected in 2014 and 2015 contained mildronate. The IWF ADC strongly advise everyone to carefully review the new list and comply
