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Rio Olympian Toomey crowned fittest women in the world

Toomey placed 14th in the 59kg bodyweight category at the Rio 2016 Games and now won the 2017 CrossFit Games in Madison, Wisconsin. Icelandic Annie Thorisdottir who competed at 2015 IWF World Championships in Houston finished third. Read the full article by the following link.  Source: Ásgeir Bjarnason, President of the Weightlifting Federation of

29th SEA Games weightlifting competitions started

The 29th South East Asian (SEA) Games weightlifting competitions started today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 7 (INA, MAS, MYA, PHI, THA, TLS, VIE) out of the 11 SEA countries participate with athletes, including Olympic Games and IWF World Championships medallists. Men 56kg was easily won by the clear favourite, 2010 YOG Gold medallist, 2014 Junior World Champion and bronze medallist of 2015 IWF World Championships, Thach Kim Tuan from VIE. Enthusiastic crowd could even see him trying to break his own Snatch SEA Games Record at 130kg. As a new initiative, every medallist receives a plant that will be settled around the stadium under his name – sustainability in

IWF thanks Taipei 2017 SU organisers

"Through all 6 days of exciting competitions the Organising Committee of the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade did an excellent job, for which they deserve our highest recognition and gratitude," - said Dr. Michael IRANI, IWF Executive Board Member, who also served as Doctor on Duty during the weightlifting competitions. "Us, Technical Officials, were treated with extraordinary and warm hospitality," - he added. He, alongside Matyas LENCSER, IWF Technical Delegate and Aniko NEMETH-MORA, FISU Technical Delegate presented a diploma of appreciation on behalf of the IWF to the host group, at the end of an event that welcomed  top-class weightlifters from 39 countries for women and 43 countries for men. A huge group of OC people and volunteers helped the event and with the international team made it one of the most successful sports at the Taipei 2017 Universiade. Thank you,

Minasyan and Kim wrap up splendid Universiade weightlifting events in due fashion

+105 – looked like a piece of cake for MINASYAN Gor, ARM, Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallist. However, as it often happens in sport, despite a 200kg snatch and a last-to-open 230kg, he was almost taken by surprise by local star, former Asian champion CHEN Shi-Chieh, who wanted to beat the Armenian leaving two attempts for the required 241kg clean and jerk. In the end, the expected pattern did work and MINASYAN remained in first position and - unusually for Taipei 2017 - no Universiade records were shattered. The women's last category, the +90kg also featured one competitor standing out from the field: Rio Olympics silver medallist (+75kg) KIM Kuk Hyang from PRK. She also delivered what was expected from her and wrapped up the women's competitions with an impressive 132kg in snatch and 160-167kg, both good and 170kg just missed = 299kg in total. Behind the North-Korean, several contenders were fighting for the medal positions. Among them, former Universiade second and World University champion from Thailand, PULSABSAKUL Chitchanok was most successful with her 270kg, taking silver. Great Britain's BROWN Mercy was happy to pick up the bronze. Universiade records, once set by the mighty KASHIRINA, were not in danger in this

First ever 90kg competition ends with Ukrainian gold

The first 90kg at Universiades: MSTIEVA Diana, RUS , European champion in 90kg and DEKHA Iryna, UKR, 2016 European champion of 75kg fought a duel on stage with DEKHA proving  stronger, especialy in clean and jerk where she completed 135kg in the second attempt for a winning total of 246kg. TPE LO Ying-Yuan was helped to a bronze medal by the cheering local fans. In the process, 7 new Universiade records were set, the first one by Tom Goegebuer's fledgling VANBELLINGHEN Anna from Belgium (Snatch, 106kg).  The rest of the records were shared between the winning Ukrainian and the silver medallist Russian

Martirosyan dominates the 105kg

Armenia's still rising star, this year's Junior world champion (+105kg) and 2016 Rio Olympic second MARTIROSYAN (just 20 years old!) overpowered the field. Although he failed twice with a new Universiade record of 192kg, the initial 180kg plus his only valid clean and jerk of 221kg, making 401kg in total was more than enough to capture the gold medal ahead of Russian BOCHKOV Rodion, who finished with 390kg. MARTIROSYAN tried for a new snatch Universiade record of 192kg - not successful - before attempting to slam two records at a time with 233kg in clean and jerk - also missed, but followed with excitement and expectation from the crowd.