2025 IWF Refugee Team ready to compete in Forde (NOR)
The IWF is pleased to announce the composition of the 2025 IWF Refugee Team, which is composed by three athletes: Ramiro Mora and Yekta Jamali, both IOC Refugee scholarship holders), and Clémentine Meukeugni Noumbissi. If Mora and Jamali were already in the 2024 IWF Refugee Team, it is a first for Noumbissi, a Cameroon-native lifter, now based in Great Britain.
Ramiro Mora
Ramiro Mora, from Cuban origin, also integrated the Olympic Refugee Team at the Paris 2024 Games, finishing seventh in the men’s 102kg. His result of 166-210-376 largely improved the performance he had done some months earlier at the IWF World Cup in Phuket (THA), where he achieved 162-197-359. In December 2024, at the IWF World Championships in Manama (BRN), he competed in the 96kg, concluding in the 10th position (166-203-369). Mora was born in September 1997.
Yekta Jamali
Jamali is also a regular presence in the last IWF major events. Together with Mora, she was one of the two weightlifters in the Paris 2024 Olympic Refugee Team. In the French capital, she performed 103-128-231, concluding the women’s 81kg category in the ninth position. Originally from Iran, Jamali was born in 2004 and could still compete at last year’s IWF World Junior Championships, where she placed third in her category (104-127-231) – she was the first-ever IWF Refugee athlete to win a medal in an IWF event. At the senior Worlds in Bahrain, she improved her performance, lifting 104-133-237 and finishing seventh.
Clémentine Noumbissi
Clémentine Noumbissi, born in October 1990, represented her country until 2022, getting significant results on a continental level – she was gold medallist in the 2021 African Championships, but also at the 2019 All-African Games. She was third at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and took part in the Tokyo 2020ne Games, finishing 11th in the women’s 87kg category,
The manager of the 2025 IWF Refugee Team is Luz Adriana Soto , from Colombia, while the physiotherapist is Hussein Elsettawi, from Egypt.
The three members of the IWF Refugee Team will be in action in the upcoming edition of the IWF World Championships, taking place from October 2-11 in Forde (NOR).
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