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2020 OWF Cup – Online Tournament

The Oceania Weightlifting Federation is holding its next online real-time competition, the 2020 OWF Cup online tournament between 5th and 6th December 2020. After the Eleiko Email Tournament and the Oceania League Torunament this will be the third opportunity for the lifters in the Oceania region to compete in the time of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Altogether 44 lifters will compete during the virtual event and there will be a complete gender equality as among the lifters there are 22 female and 22 male lifters.
According to the program female weightlifters will compete on the 5th December while male lifters will compete on the 6th December 2020.

Athletes can participate from their home gym or, where permitted, at their regular training venue or competition venue. The results of online competitions will not be valid for OWF records. However the online competition results from this tournament will be recognised in the OWF Rankings.

The best five (5) athletes (male and female) based on the Sinclair formula will also receive prize money.

More information on the regulation and entry list can be found here.