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Media&Press Registration – 2022 IWF Special and Electoral Congress

Media and Press registration is now open for the 2022 IWF Special and Electoral Congress which will be held between 25-26 June 2022 in Tirana, Albania. Accreditation requests will be only accepted via the IWF Media Registration System which can be found here. In case of question, please contact IWF at

Last Day of the 2022 IWF Youth World Championships

The last day of the 2022 IWF Youth World Championships featured the Women +81kg and the Men +102kg categories. Women +81kg Category In the Snatch portion of the program of the last female category of the 2022 IWF Youth World Championships, Johanna PFEILSTOECKER from Austria finished at third place with 96kg, Fatmagul CEVIK from Turkey placed second with 99kg and Yairan Sofia TYSFOROD RIVAS from Colombia was awarded as the Snatch World Champion with 100kg which she lifted on her third attempt. In Clean&Jerk Tysforod Rivas added another World Champion title to her collection with lifting 121kg on her third attempt. Cevik could also keep her podium finish with 120kg and this time Cevik's teammate Tuana SUREN could stand on the Podium with 116kg. The Total podium was as follows: Yairan Sofia TYSFOROD RIVAS (COL) - 221kg Fatmagul CEVIK (TUR) - 219kg Tuana SUREN (TUR) - 211kg Women +81kg Total Podium @IWF/Isaac Morillas Men +102kg Category In the last session of the Championships Slovakia won its first World Champion title of the 2022 IWF Youth World Championships when Vladimr MACURA placed first in all the disciplines with 151-181- 332kg.  In Snatch, Silver went to Jhon Mario MARTINEZ ROBLEDO from Colombia with 140kg, while the host country could enjoy another podium finish with Jose Manuel MEZA VIZCARRA lifting 136kg.   In Clean&Jerk Martinez Robledo collected another Silver medal with his lift of 175kg and Kevin Mateo ASTO SAITEROS from Ecuador secured the Bronze medal with 169kg. The last Total podium was as follows: Vladimr MACURA (SVK) - 332kg Jhon Mario MARTINEZ ROBLEDO (COL) - 315kg Marek Mateusz GUGALA (POL) - 302kg Men +102kg Total Podium @IWF/Isaac

Day 7 – 2022 IWF Youth World Championships

The seventh day featured the Women 81kg and the Men 102kg categories. Women 81kg Category In the first session of the day, the host country Mexico finally won its first Gold medal of the 2022 IWF Youth World Championships when Mairyn Vanessa HERNANDEZ LIZZARRAGA won with 95kg. Silver went to Busra CAN (TUR) with 94kg, while Shams Mohamed Ahmed ABDELRAZIM (EGY) finished third with 92kg. In Clean&Jerk only the order in the first two places changed. This time Can won with her second lift of 118kg, Hernandez Lizarraga took Silver with 116kg, and Abdelrazim collected her second Bronze medal of the day with 115kg. The Total podium was as follows: Busra CAN - 212kg Mairyn Vanessa HERNANDEZ LIZARRAGA - 211kg Shams Mohamed Ahmed ABDELRAZIM - 207kg Women 81kg Total Podium @IWF/Isaac Morillas Men 102kg Category In the Snatch portion of the program the competition for the Gold medal was decided between 2 athletes, Nikita ABDRAKHMANOV from Kazakhstan and Kutradbek SALIMJONOV from Uzbekistan. At the end Abdrakhmanov could hold a 1kg advantage and with 157kg placed first, while Salimjonov won Silver with 156kg. Bronze medal went Cristian Jesus BOJORQUEZ GRIJALVA from Mexico with 133kg. In C&J, Baki Sami KIYMET from Turkey placed third with 163kg, Salimjonov with just only one good lift of 171kg finished second and once again Abdrakhmanov won it all with a the huge difference of 20kg (191kg). In Total the following results were made: Nikita ABDRAKHMANOV (KAZ) - 348kg Kutradbek SALIMJONOV (UZB) - 327kg Baki Sami KIYMET (TUR) - 294kg Men 102kg Total Podium @IWF/Isaac Morillas The last day tomorrow will feature the Men +102kg and the Women +81kg categories. Follow the competition live on the IWF YouTube

Day 6 – 2022 IWF Youth World Championships

On day 6 of the 2022 IWF Youth World Championships the action continued with the Women 76kg and Men 96kg categories. Women 76kg Category In Snatch Estefany ESPINOZA URESTI from Mexico placed 3rd with 90kg which she lifted on her third attempt. Second place went to Nigora SUVONOVA from Uzbekistan with 91kg who after last year Youth World Championships repeated her performance only this time she needed 1 kg less for that. The Snatch Youth World Champion title at the end went to Rahma Ahmed Abdelrazek Hassan ELSAYED from Egypt with her third attempt of 95kg. In Clean&Jerk the same podium followed: Espinoza finished third with 110kg, Suvonova 2nd with 119kg, which was 5kg more than her best lift last year in Jeddah, and Elsayed placed first with her 2nd lift of 120kg. The Total result were as follows: Rahma Elsayed (EGY) - 215kg Nigora Suvonova (UZB) - 210kg Estefany Espinoza (MEX) - 200kg  Women 76kg Total Podium @IWF/Isaac Morillas Men 96kg Category In Snatch Gervasi TABAGARI (GEO) proved to be the strongest as he lifted 7kg more (140kg) than the second and third placed athletes, Saparly MUHYYEV (TKM) and Abrorbek MARUFBEKOV (UZB). In C&J Muhyyev collected another medal, this time a Bronze with his second lift of 167kg. Silver medal was awarded to Pablo MEDINA CONTRERAS (MEX) with his third attempt of 169kg, while the absolute winner was Tabagari with a C&J of 177kg. In Total, Medina Contreras added a Bronze medal to his collection with 300kg, Muhyyev won Silver with the same Total and Tabagari became the Youth World Champion with 317kg. Men 96kg Total Podium @IWF/Isaac Morillas Tomorrow the event continues with the Men 102kg and Women 81kg categories. Follow the competition live on the IWF YouTube

IWF Welcomes Decision from CAS

The IWF has taken note and welcomes this decision put forth today by the Court for Arbitration of Sport (CAS) regarding two individuals, former International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) leaders, both of whom have now been suspended from the sport for life. In recent years, the IWF has invested a significant amount of time and resources to eradicate doping from the sport. Working together with the International Testing Agency (ITA), the IWF has outsourced all anti-doping activities including testing and education to these experts to run. IWF Interim President Michael Irani commented, “We welcome the decision by CAS which closes a chapter in IWF history. The IWF has learnt a lot and continues to move forward in governance reforms and clean sport in order to avoid anything like this from happening again in the future. With this behind us we can fully focus on the completion of tasks which were given to us by our Olympic partners concluding with the upcoming election end of this month.”  The CAS decision can be read

New Youth World Record for Egypt – 2022 IWF Youth World Championships

The fifth day here in León Mexico featured the Women 64kg, the Men 89kg and Women 71kg categories. In the Men 89kg we could witness an extraordinary perfomance from an Egyptian athlete which brought him the Gold and a Youth World Record. Women 64kg Category In the Women 64kg category there was a clear distinction between the first placed athlete and the rest of them.  In Snatch Ingrid Vanesa SEGURA GRUESO (COL) only started her lifts when the rest of the athletes have already finished.She went 3-from-3 with 87-91-94kg and easily won Gold. Silver went to Nadezhada LI (KAZ) with 85kg, while Keily Carolina SILVA FERNANDEZ (VEN) completed the podium with 84kg. In the Clean&Jerk we witnessed a medal from Group B for the second time at this Youth World Championships, when Brianna MARQUEZ (USA) took Bronze with 105kg. Her teammate Anna SIERRA finished second with just 1kg more, with 106kg. Then came Segura, who after her Gold in Snatch, went 3-from-3 again and with the difference of 11kg collected her second Gold medal of the day. The Total podium followed the Snatch one, Segura was awarded Youth World Champion with 211kg, Li finished second with 190kg, while Silva won Bronze with 187kg. Women 64kg Total Podium @IWF/Isaac Morillas Men 89kg Category This category brought the second new Youth World Record of the Championships when Mahmoud Hosny Elsayed HASSAN from Egypt broke the C&J Youth World Record. In all the disciplines the podium stayed the same. Carlos Enrique LEON AVELLA from Venezuela collected 3 Bronze medals with 125-155-280, while Nikoloz ESARTIA from Georgia won Silver with 141-174-315. The clear winner of the category was Mahmoud Hassan who not only won 3 Gold medals with 150-193-343, he also broke the C&J Youth World Record. On his second attempt he lifted 175kg and then with his team they decided to jump to 193kg which was a new World Record attempt. Much to the excitement the crowd he executed the lift perfectly and broke the record. Men 89kg Total Podium @IWF/Isaac Morillas Women 71kg Category In Snatch the competition was really close between the athletes who made a podium finish. Janette YLISOINI from Finland placed at 3rd place with her 2nd attempt of 89kg, Ildem Burcu GERCEKDEN from Turkey took Silver with 91kg and with Mia RHODES (USA) lifting 92kg on her last attempt, USA collected ist first Gold medal of the Championships. In C&J portion of the program Rhodes proved to be the strongest and with her third lift of 110kg won the competition. Ylisoini finished at 2nd place with 106kg. On her third attempt she tried 111kg however it was a no lift. Ivanna Gabriela CERQUERA MONTOYA even though she placed 7th in Snatch, was strong enough to lift 104kg in C&J, which earned her the Bronze medal. In Total, Mia Rhodes collected her third Gold medal with 202kg, Ylisoini placed 2nd with 195kg, and Gercekden completed the podium with 194kg. Women 71kg Total Podium @IWF/Isaac Morillas Tomorrow the competition continues with the Women 76kg and the Men 96kg categories. Follow the action live on the IWF YouTube