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Continental statistics

With less than 1 year to go to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, results reached at weightlifting calendar events and especially Continental competitions can bring us some interesting statistics. The 5 Continental Championships / Games held in 2015 were as follows: European Championships Tbilisi, GEO Oceanian Championships Port Moresby, PNG Pan-American Games Toronto, CAN Asian Championships Phuket, THA African Games Brazzaville, CGO The first statistical chart compiles the points given to the best 6 Total places from each continent by bodyweight categories. Making a theoretical attribution of points, the second chart is a potential ranking allowing the countries to have an insight in what their current results worth on a continental level. The third chart presents the potential ranking by countries following the same structure. The point structure attribution is as follows: 1st place 7 points 2nd place 5 points 3rd place 4 points 4th place 3 points 5th place 2 points 6th place 1 point At the end you can find a combined ranking list in each bodyweight category including the best 6 from each Continental

PUBLIC DISCLOSURE

The IWF reports that sample of Ms. Faina Sivanbayeva (KAZ) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for (S1.1 Anabolic Agents) dehydrochloromethyltestosterone. As a consequence, the athlete is provisionally suspended in view of a potential anti-doping rule violation. In any case where it is determined that the athlete did not commit an anti-doping rule violation, the relevant decision will also be

WARNING

On 16 September 2015, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Executive Committee approved the 2016 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods, which will come into force on 1 January 2016. You may find the new list here The IWF Anti-Doping Commission would like to specifically call everyone’s attention to a new prohibited substance called MILDRONATE (Meldonium) which was in the WADA Monitoring Program in 2015 and will be prohibited from the 1st January 2016. The most used trade names for the substance are: mildronate, meldonium, Quaterin, Kvaretin, THP. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list. There may be other medications, supplements which could contain mildronate (labelled or not labelled). According to recent scientific publications of the WADA accredited laboratories Cologne and Moscow, 2-17 % of doping control samples collected in 2014 and 2015 contained mildronate. The IWF ADC strongly advise everyone to carefully review the new list and comply

6 strong candidates for the 2018 IWF World Championships

Member Federations from 3 continents are now candidates to host the major event in the IWF calendar for the year 2018 being the World Championships. Six cities sent in their candidatures within the IWF deadline and the IWF President Dr. Tamas Ajan is happy to welcome them. Following the IWF’s circular to Member Federations in August, these are the cities that expressed their interest as host of the 2018 IWF World Championships: Antalya, Turkey Lima, Peru Phuket, Thailand Tbilisi, Georgia Tirana, Albania Tokyo, Japan These outstanding, highly qualified and experienced hosts all organized major weightlifting events in the recent period and / or future major events will be organized in the city. Antalya organized the 2010 IWF World Championships and 2012 European Championships. Lima, under the leadership of Mr. Jose Quinones, NOC and Weightlifting Federation President organized the 2013 IWF Junior and 2015 Youth World Championships; the city is also the host of the 2019 Pan American Games. Phuket concluded recently the 2015 Asian Championships. Tbilisi organized the 2015 European Championships, led by the President of the Georgian Federation President, 3 times Olympic Champion, Kakhi Kakhiashvili. Tirana hosted the 2013 European Championships. Tokyo will organize the 2016 Asian Youth and Junior Championships, the 2017 IWF Junior World Championships and the 2020 Olympic Games. According to the published candidature procedure, the cities / Member Federations will have to send their Candidature File together with guarantee / support letters to the IWF before 17 October. The cities / Member Federations will have to present their candidatures at the next IWF Executive Board meeting in Houston, TX, USA, where the host will be selected by the

Last competition day crowned 2 Chinese champions

Men’s 85kg Awaiting for a Chinese fight between LU and ZHONG, we got it between YUFKIN Alexey (RUS) and the Silver Medallist at the London 2012 Olympic Games LU Haojie (CHN). LU had only 1 successful attempt in the Snatch with 165kg missing the next two at 170kg and 173kg, but still took the lead. In the Clean and Jerk, he went up to 200, and won with a 3kg advantage over YUFKIN. The European Champion in 2009 and 2011 Russian attempted the 204kg Clean and Jerk, but wasn’t successful. His Total of 362kg got him the Silver Medal. LINDER Semen (KAZ) came up third with 351kg. World Champion in 2014 ZHONG Guoshun (CHN) ended 5th with 350kg missing twice the Snatch and the Clean and Jerk. Women’s 69kg 9 consecutive good lifts with each lifters coming after themselves – they didn’t competed against each other. First attempt of the Chinese lifter ZHANG coming out last at 113kg and after 2 no lifts finally managed to control the weight. The Clean and Jerk competition followed the same scheme, however we’ve seen some more missed attempts. The Kazakh lifter failed to lift 115kg, while the Egyptian AHMED couldn’t lift the weight of 135kg. With no international records registered, ZHANG Wangli (CHN) jumped from a first successful attempt at 135kg to 145kg then to 150kg – all good lifts. The last bodyweight category at the 2015 IWF Grand Prix Fuzhou, China ended with the victory of the Chinese lifter ZHANG for her Total of 263kg. The 2013 and 2015 Youth World Champion and 2014 Youth Olympic Champion AHMED Sara Samir Elsayed Mohamed (EGY) came up second with 5 successful attempts and a Total of 235kg. Third place was awarded to SADYKOVA Assem

First World Record attempt by LIAO Hui at the Grand Prix

Chinese women won all two bodyweight categories on the second competition day. Women’s 58kg LI Ping (CHN) missed a couple of years in international competitions won the Snatch with 102kg, the Clean and Jerk with 128kg. The several times World and Asian Champion ended with 230kg on the first place of the podium here in Fuzhou. Ending on exactly the same weights – 102kg, 128kg and 230kg – her compatriot CHAI Lina (CHN) had a higher bodyweight and therefore could only took over the Silver Medal. The Bronze Medal and the Prize Money of 3000 USD went to DAENGSRI Nawaporn (THA) Youth World Champion in 2015. She ended with a Total of 206kg – far from the 2 leaders. Women’s 63kg CHEN Guiming (CHN) had only 3 successful attempts – 1 in the Snatch and 2 in the Clean and Jerk – but still made with first place with a good advantage of 15kg. Afro-Asian Champion in 2014, she had only one good Snatch with 100kg, she was 1kg behind KHLESTKINA Natalia (RUS) who in the Clean and Jerk was far behind CHEN. KHLESTKINA attempted the 130kg Clean and Jerk, but this 11kg raise seemed too heavy. The Kazakh SADUAKASSOVA Saule (KAZ) closed the podium with 208kg and a Bronze Medal. The ultimate category to watch was the Men’s 77kg where a long standing World Record almost broke. With LIAO Hui moving up from his original 69kg bodyweight, we expected lifts never seen before and we were not disappointed. Men’s 69kg ZHANG Jie (CHN) World Champion in 2011 and several times Asian Champion ended the Snatch with 145kg followed by KIM Alexandr from Kazakhstan with 141kg. With 140kg, and being third only by bodyweight, the Russian PETROV Sergey was 6kg away from his European Championships Snatch of 146kg. With two missed attempts in the Clean and Jerk, ZHANG registered a successful lift at 170kg and with his Total of 315kg, he was victorious getting the Gold Medal. In the Clean and Jerk, it was PETROV’s time to get back the 1kg advantage over KIM and ending with the same Total of 308kg, the lighter Russian won over the Kazakh. The Total Result of the Gold Medal winner LIAO at the 2014 IWF World Championships in Almaty was 44kg’s away at 359kg. Men’s 77kg Starting at 160kg in the Snatch and missing his first lift, LIAO Hui ended the Snatch 4kg above his own World Record achieved in the 69kg bodyweight category. His jump from 160kg to 170kg was a risky one, but he controlled the weight perfectly and got a serious advantage. At a bodyweight of 73,72kg, he Clean and Jerked 190kg, enough to secure for him the victory, and also to have 2 more attempts to try to break the World Records in both Clean and Jerk and Total. The 2001 Clean and Jerk Record of PEREPETCHENOV is a long standing one, and was attempted by many - like at the IWF World Championships in Paris where both LU Xiaojun (CHN) and SA Jaehyouk (KOR) failed breaking it. LIAO also couldn’t make it, even if during his first attempt, he managed to Clean the 211kg. Winning the 77kg bodyweight category with a Total of 360kg, he finished before second place winner PAVLOV Kirill (KAZ) ending with 350kg. PAVLOV won the Bronze Medal at the 2014 IWF World Championships in Almaty with 352kg. Third place was also attributed to a Kazakh lifter, KAZOV Aidar with