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Parents & Guardians: A Guide to Clean Sport

Parents and guardians of young athletes have many roles. As well as being their child’s number one fan, they are their taxi driver, nutritionist, psychologist. Alongside this, parents and guardians also have an important role in their child’s development as a clean athlete. This requires an understanding of anti-doping rules, and just as importantly, an ability to positively influence their child’s values and behaviours, which in turn can prevent doping. We invite parents, guardians, all athletes, and others who work with young athletes, to tune in as our expert panellists discuss this important topic. Joining us are Dr Lubna Sibtain, whose daughter was the first female swimmer and youngest female Olympian from Pakistan, and Jodi Brown, a former international netball player, parent, and member of Drug Free Sport New Zealand’s Education Team. They will share their experiences and provide practical tips on how parents and guardians can learn about, and take an active role in clean sport. As always, we are pleased to deliver these webinars in English with simultaneous translation to four additional languages – Arabic (العربي), Spanish (español), French (français) and Russian (русский). Topic: Parents and Guardians: A Guide to Clean Sport Registration Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aGL42DYbRx6x8WEeVgAj0g Event date: Tuesday 31 May 14:00–15:00 CET Panelists: Dr Lubna Sibtain, IOC Certified Sport Physician and parent of young Olympian Jodi Brown, Drug Free Sport New Zealand and International Netball Player Moderator:  Mairi Irvine, ITA Education Team

31st SEA Games

IWF General Secretary, Mohammed Jalood visited the Southeast Asian Games currently running in Hanoi, Vietnam. This is the second time Vietnam is hosting the SEA Games, the first one being in 2003. The event was originally scheduled for  2021  but due to the COVID Pandemic it was postponed to 2022. Mr. Jalood also met the official mascot of the Games, Sao La, both supporting the clean sport. The weightlifting competitions last 4 days and athletes are competing in 14 categories. One of the biggest name competing at the event is Hidilyn Diaz (PHI), Tokyo 2020 Olympic

The ITA imposes two-year sanctions on six Egyptian weightlifters

THE INTERNATIONAL TESTING AGENCY (ITA), LEADING AN INDEPENDENT ANTI-DOPING PROGRAM FOR THE INTERNATIONAL WEIGHTLIFTING FEDERATION (IWF), REPORTS THAT SIX EGYPTIAN WEIGHTLIFTERS HAVE ACCEPTED EACH A TWO-YEAR PERIOD OF INELIGIBILITY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR ANTI-DOPING RULE VIOLATIONS (ADRVS) STEMMING FROM SAMPLES COLLECTED DURING THE 2019 AFRICAN GAMES IN RABAT, MOROCCO. The six cases concern Adverse Analytical Findings (AAFs) for the presence of the prohibited stimulant 5-methylhexan-2-amine (1,4-dimethylpentylamine) collected on 29 and 30 August 2019 during the 2019 African Games in Morocco. The prohibited substance is classified as a Specified substance by the World Anti-Doping Code. The cases were first prosecuted by the Organizing Committee of the African Games (COJAR). Following the conclusion of the results management process by COJAR, the individual results of the athletes obtained at the African Games were disqualified and the matter was referred to the ITA for the continuation of results management under the applicable IWF Anti-Doping Rules in order to determine the applicable sanction for the period following the African Games. The ITA reports that in line with the IWF Anti-Doping Rules the following athletes have accepted a retrospective period of ineligibility of two years – 22 January 2020 until 21 January 2022: Samar Habashy; Mohamed Abdelrahman Elsayed; Ibrahim Moustafa Wahid Shaaban Sara Samir Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed Farag Salma Ahmed Mahmoud Awad Abdelalim Mahmoud Selim The athletes have not participated in any event since the date of sample collection, therefore there are no additional results to disqualify. Under Article 12 of the IWF Anti-Doping Rules when three or more ADRVs sanctioned by the IWF are committed by athletes, officials or athlete support personnel within a 12-month period, the member federation can be suspended, fined and/or have other rights withdrawn. As a result, the matter of the consequences to be imposed on the Egyptian Weightlifting Federation will be referred by the ITA to the IWF’s Independent Member Federation Sanctioning Panel for its determination.

Olympic Solidarity Course in Cyprus

The Weightlifting Federation of Cyprus organized a Coaching Course in Cyprus, in March 2022 which was supported by the IOC's Olympic Solidarity program and IWF. The seminars were conducted on 3 weekends in March and due to some travel restrictions still in place, the theoretical parts were arranged via Zoom webinar. For the final weekend all 3 experts, Ms. Denise Offermann from Cyprus, Mr. Georgios Saroglakis and Mr. Dimitris Ioannidis from Greece traveled to Cyprus to have 3 full days of practical sessions.  Alltogether 19 participants took part and listened to various presentations among others on: Theory of the Coaching Pathway, Coaching Skill development, Competition Preparation and End Phase Theory, Code of Ethics and Fair Play and The Winning Attitude – athlete’s mind set. The course was a major step in the development of the Weightlifting Federation of Cyprus in all regions and therefore a great success. The Weightlifting Federation of Cyprus appreciated the support of IWF, Olympic Solidarity and Cyprus Olympic Committee in organizing this

Last lift = New Junior World Record for Yousefi – Last Day of the 2022 IWF Junior World Championships

The last medals were distributed on the 9th and last day of the 2022 IWF Junior World Championships in the Women +87kg and Men +109kg categories. The competition came to a excellent conclusion as the last lift of the event was a new Junior World Record. Women +87kg Category The last female category of the Junior World Championships started the day at 12:00 local time with 11 athletes competing for the medals. In Snatch, Hyejeong PARK (KOR) at her first World Championships won Gold with 120kg, Aisamal SANSYZBAYEVA (KAZ) winner of the IWF Online Youth World Cup took Silver with 112kg and Abdeek Noemi RODRIGUEZ LUGO from Mexico finished third with 111kg. In the Clean&Jerk portion of the program, Rodriguez collected her second Bronze medal with 141kg, Hyoeon KIM (KOR) went 3-from-3 with 135-141-145kg placed second, and Park won another Gold with 161kg. The last female podium of the 2022 IWF Junior World Championships was as follows: Naturally Park won with 281kg, her teammate Kim collected her second Silver medal with 253kg and Sansyzbayeva won her second medal of the day, this time a Bronze with 252kg. Women +87kg Total Podium @IWF/Steve Galvan Men +109kg Category Current Junior C&J World Record holder Alireza YOUSEFI was the biggest name of the category who repeated his performance from the 2021 IWF World Championships and broke the Junior C&J World Record of the Men +109kg category. In Snatch, Bohdan TARANENKO from Ukraine got the Bronze with his third attempt of 167kg. The Gold and Silver medal was decided between Mirkhosil MIRZABAEV from Uzbekistan and Alireza YOUSEFI from Islamic Republic of Iran. They both went 3-from-3 but Yousefi could always keep the 1 kg advantage between him and Mirzabaev, therefore he won Gold with 177kg and Silver went to Mirzabaev with 176kg. In C&J the difference between Yousefi and all the athletes were clearly shown as he started the C&J portion when all the athletes already finished their attempts. Atajan DAYIYEV (TKM) finished at third place with 208kg and Mirzabaev collected his second Silver medal with 212kg. The show however just started after they finished with their lifts. Yousefi started his attempts at 215kg and already on his second attempt increased to a weight which would have meant a new Junior World Record with 239kg. Even though he missed his second attempt, on his - and the Junior World Championships' last lift he broke his own previous record of 238kg. In the last Total of the competition the medals were awarded as follows: Yousefi won it all with 416kg, the Silver was awarded to Mirzabaev with 388kg and the last Bronze medal went to Taranenko (UKR) with 374kg. Men +109kg Total Podium @IWF/Steve Galvan The footage of the entire 2022 IWF Junior World Championships is available on the IWF Facebook and YouTube