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Technical Official Seminar held in Kathmandu, Nepal

A Technical Official Seminar was organized by the Asian Weightlifting Federation and IWF in Kathmandu on the occasion of the Asian Championships within the framework of the IWF Development Program on July 23, 2017.

The IWF was represented by Mohammed JALOOD, IWF General Secretary and Intarat YODBANGTOEY, IWF 1st Vice President while other Asian leaders joined the Seminar as well.

Lecturer Reiko Kato CHINEN, IWF Technical Committee member has given a complex lesson on the modified TCRR.
The seminar was very interactive as the participants (in total around 60 people) completed a quiz on the Classification of Athletes. Ten minutes were given for them to solve the quiz and the answers were shown on screen. Ms. Chinen also talked about the Buenos Aires 2018 YOG Qualification System and about Continental Qualification.
Information regarding IOC Agenda 2020 and IOC’s decision on Tokyo 2020 were also given.  Relevant to the topic, the importance of Anti-Doping was emphasized.

Everybody was paying serious attention and all participants found the seminar successful praising the knowledge obtained.