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Winners of the 2011 Lifter of the Year voting: Two Russians!

At World Weightlifting’s traditional election of the Best Lifter of the Year, the majority of voters – 525! – agreed that the “Jeno Boskovics Challenge Trophy” for Women in 2011 should go to Svetlana Tsarukaeva from Russia. Tsarukaeva collected altogether 4,087 points – winning with a colossal advantage. Also Russian Khadzimurat Akkaev turned out to be the Best Male Lifter of 2011. He was voted into first position by 391 of his 643 voters, into second place by 143 and into third place by 109. He raised altogether 3,779 points. The election on the IWF website broke all previous records: 805 valid ballots came from 63 countries. Thank you,

WADA Media Symposium

WADA held a Media Symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland on 7 February where the IWF was represented by Lilla Rozgonyi, IWF Communication Assistant. The Hon. John Fahey, WADA President held a lecture entitled “WADA in 2012”. David Howman, WADA Director General explained “The challenges facing anti-doping in 2012 and how WADA will respond to those challenges”. Olivier Niggli, WADA Legal Counsel presented “The Code Review Process”. All lectures can be downloaded by following the

IWF Technical Visit in Almaty

IWF Competition Director, Attila Adamfi recently paid a visit to the headquarters of the Kazakh Weightlifting Federation in order to discuss several details in regard to the 2014 IWF World Championships to be organized in Astana. The Federation was represented by Mrs. Gapura Turlykhanova, Vice President, Mr. Alexei Ni, Executive Board Member and Head Coach and Mr. Tapsir Mendikhan, General Secretary. Attila Adamfi visited Almaty as Member of the National Bandy Team of Hungary participating on the XXXII. Bandy World Championships, where he was also re-elected as Vice President of the Federation of International Bandy (FIB) by the FIB

IWF Technical Visit in Almaty

IWF Competition Director, Attila Adamfi recently paid a visit to the headquarters of the Kazakh Weightlifting Federation in order to discuss several details in regard to the 2014 IWF World Championships to be organized in Astana. The Federation was represented by Mrs. Gapura Turlykhanova, Vice President, Mr. Alexei Ni, Executive Board Member and Head Coach and Mr. Tapsir Mendikhan, General Secretary. Attila Adamfi visited Almaty as Member of the National Bandy Team of Hungary participating on the XXXII. Bandy World Championships, where he was also re-elected as Vice President of the Federation of International Bandy (FIB) by the FIB

The Hellenic Weightlifting Federation has high ambitions

The Hellenic Weightlifting Federation (HWF) President Pyrros Dimas, three times Olympic Champion and bronze medallist made an official visit to the IWF Secretariat with Tasos Papachristou Communication Director in order to discuss cooperation opportunities between the two organizations. Pyrros Dimas, with his achievements highly contributes to the success of the IWF Anti-Doping Campaign launched during the 2011 IWF World Weightlifting Championships Paris, France. With his knowledge and outstanding personality he is one of the greatest role model for the grassroots generation. As an outstanding international event in the Calendar, the Hellenic Weightlifting Federation has expressed its intention to organize an IWF Grand Prix called Olympus Tournament in the course of the year. Greek weightlifting has always played a strong and active role on the international scene and with this renewal they wish to enter a new era and concentrate all their efforts to bring back the shining glory and fame of its past success. Yannis Sgouros, Governor of Attica Region, previous IWF General Secretary and Tasos Papachristou, Vice-President of the HWF will help to put into place projects of development to further consolidate and strengthen weightlifting activity in the

Junior World Championships and Pan American Olympic Qualification Event TIMETABLE

We re pleased to inform you that the Timetable of the forthcoming Junior World Championships and Pan American Olympic Qualification Event to be held in Antigua Guatemala in May 2012 is already available. Click here to download. Further documents to be published soon. Les informamos con mucho placer que el Programa del Campeonato Mundial Juvenil y Evento Clasificatorio Preolímpico que será celebrado en Antigua Guatemala en Mayo de 2012 ya esta disponible. Clique aquí para descargar. Los documentos adicionales serán accesibles