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5 cities bidding for the 2018 IWF Junior World Championships

The International Weightlifting Federation has received the Candidature of five Candidate cities bidding to host the 2018 IWF Junior World Championships. According to the procedure the list of cities that announced their intent is as follows: Minsk, BLR Eilat, ISR Pyongyang, PRK Anaheim, USA Tashkent, UZB The Hosting Right of the 2018 IWF Junior World Championships will be allocated on 22-23 June 2016 during the upcoming IWF Executive Board meeting held in Tbilisi, Georgia. Additional information on the timeline to follow in the candidature procedure: 22 May 2016 Member Federations submit the Candidature Questionnaire to IWF Secretariat 22 May 2016 Member Federations provide guarantee letter(s) / letter(s) of support (from Government / City / NOC / sponsor) 22 May 2016 Deposit fee to be paid by the Member Federations to the IWF as per IWF Constitution 22-23 June 2016 Delegations to present their Candidature at the IWF Executive Board meeting 22-23 June 2016 attribution of the hosting right by the IWF Executive

IWF Executive Board members visit USA Weightlifting Championships/ US Olympic Team Trials

3 times Olympic Champion, Mr. Pyrros Dimas and IWF Women's Commission Chair, MS Moira Lassen, both IWF Executive Board members visited Salt Lake City, Utah on the weekend to open the US Olympic Team Trials. The USA Weightlifting Federation also hosted multiple "meet and greet" opportunities with Mr. Dimas for athletes and coaches alike. Mr. Dimas declared the Olympic Trials open while Ms. Lassen wished the athletes and coaches the best for the competition. Congratulations to USAW Chair Ms. Ursula Garza Papandrea and CEO Mr. Phil Andrews for a successful

Continental Qualification current standing

As the European and Asian Championships also Qualification events for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games concluded recently, here is an update on the countries that earned quota: Europe: Men TUR ITA CZE HUN GBR FIN SVK Women GBR ITA FRA POL GER ESP Asia: Men JPN IRQ MAS KGZ SYR IND TKM Women VIE UZB IND MGL PHI TKM Check out the latest info on the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

New Youth World Record!

LOPEZ LOPEZ Yeison (COL) set 2 Youth World Records in the Clean and Jerk in the Men's 77kg bodyweight category with 186kg and in the Total with 334kg at the Pan-American Junior Championships in San Salvador, ESA. 3 athletes also set Pan American Youth Records. Check out the results

IWF Anti-Doping Seminar in Tashkent

Under the framework of the IWF Development Program an IWF Anti-Doping Seminar was held in cooperation with the Asian Weightlifting Federation on the occasion of the Asian Continental Qualification Event in Tashkent. The Seminar was a great success, with more than 90 participants from 30 Asian Member Federations. The Anti-Doping Education is one of the top priorities of the IWF and the Anti-Doping Commission thus wishes to ensure the protection of the clean athletes on their road to Rio! The IWF Anti-Doping Commission Chairman Dr Patrick Schamasch gave a through explanation about the overall anti-doping system and called upon all the athletes and coaches to fulfil their responsibilities. The IWF will continue its committed fight against doping and will do its best to spread awareness of rights and obligations connected to anti-doping along with the latest news and developments. Let’s lift CLEAN and

Pyrros Dimas lights the Olympic Flame in Athens

Three times Οlympic Gold Medallist Pyrros Dimas accompanied by his children lit the cauldron with the Olympic Flame in front of Parthenon temple atop of the Acropolis Hill in Athens on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. After traveling Greece for six days, the Rio 2016 Olympic Torch arrived on Tuesday at the Acropolis in Athens. The cauldron at the Acropolis Museum was lit by the secretary general of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, Manolis Katsiadakis. The sacred light had crossed the Acropolis in the hands of the Olympic champion Pyrros Dimas, Voula Kozomboli, Georgia Ellinaki, Aggeliki Karapataki, Evi Moraitidou, Virginia Kravarioti and Nikos Deligiannis. The President of the International Olympic Academy Isidoros Kouvelos carried the Olympic Flame at Dionysiou Areopagitou Street. Dimitris Valasiadis, Hellenic Weightlifting Federation President was one of the 450 people to carry the torch in Greece. The Olympic Flame will remain overnight at the Acropolis Museum until Wednesday, April 27, when it will be formally handed over to Brazil at a ceremony at the Panathenian Stadium in Athens, the venue for the historic 1896 Olympic Games that launched the modern Olympic movement. The flame arrives in Brazil on May 3, and will be relayed across the vast country by about 12,000 torchbearers before the Aug. 5 opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Source and more photos