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9th Mediterranean Cup organized in Malta

The Malta Weightlifting Association organized, with success the 9th edition of the Mediterranean Weightlifting Cup. Eleven countries participated in this team event with the Tunisian team winning the competition with 1891 points. They were followed by France with 1754 points and Italy with 1607 points. The Maltese team placed fourth, with 1482 points followed by Turkey’s 1321 points, Spain, Israel, Slovenia, Greece, Bosnia & Herzegovina and San Marino. 18 Mediterranean records were broken, 11 of which were achieved in the women section whilst the remaining 7 in the male section. The Best Male athlete was the Tunisian athlete, Karem Ben Hnia, and the Best Female athlete was also taken by a Tunisian lifter, Yosra Dhieb. This year, the Fair play award was given to Andreas Andrén, for devoting and promoting the sport of weightlifting. Apart from the competition, a seminar took place at the Plaza Regency hall, with the support of IWF, conducted by Dr. Michele Attolico, with the subject new approaches and therapeutic prospects in weightlifting. Check out the: Classification by Category Team Classification Men & Women Individual Ranking Source: Jesmond Caruana, MWF

WADA Symposium in Lausanne

More than 470 anti-doping experts from IFs, NADOs, RADOs, Laboratories, Major Games Organisers, WADA and first time Media representatives met in Lausanne, Switzerland from March 24-26 for the 11th edition of WADA’s annual Symposium for Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs) – the largest annual gathering of anti-doping practitioners. The goal of the Symposium was to optimize the Practice of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. This was a perfect opportunity also for the IWF representatives (Dr. Patrick Schamasch, IWF Anti-Doping Commission Chairman, Dr. Magdolna Trombitás, Legal counsel, Ms. Melody Exhenry, Administrative Assistant) to get together with the Anti-Doping Community and discuss the experiences regarding the new IWF Anti-Doping Policy which entered into force on the 1st January 2015 and which has a clear focus on protecting the clean athletes. For the first time in the history of the WADA Symposium the representatives of the Laboratories and Media were also invited and this enable the anti-doping community to discuss a wider range of issues connected to Anti-Doping. The IWF is enlightened to announce that also a random Anti-Doping Commission meeting took place during the aforementioned Event. The Symposium provided practical workshops and training sessions related to education, testing, intelligence and investigations, the Athlete Biological Passport, results management, therapeutic use exemptions, ADAMS, and other key areas of the fight for clean sport. For more news related to the Symposium click on the following links: WADA ADO Symposium WADA / Optimize World

IWF interviews IOC President Thomas Bach – Weightlifting embraces Olympic Agenda 2020

On 24 March, Thomas Bach, IOC President gave an exclusive interview to the crew of the IWF and Hungarian Television, as well as to World Weightlifting at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne. Answering questions by Anikó Németh-Móra, IWF Director, the IOC President confirmed that weightlifting has made its contributions to the Olympic Movement and highlighted some of the immediate impacts of the Olympic Agenda 2020, among those the changes in the Olympic Games Bidding process or the increased manifestation of sustainability in the staging and the management of the Games. In particular, weightlifting's approval of an existing venue with temporary overlays for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics can be referred to as a good example. - The President stressed that the 40 recommendations of the Olympic Agenda 2020 make up a complex unit where all organisations involved in sports have their relevance and must find their share of contributions to keep Olympism alive 365 days a