News

American Samoa weightlifting team returns home with three medals

The American Samoa weightlifting team have returned to Pago Pago with three medals after competing at the Oceania Junior and Youth Championship held in Brisbane, Australia last week. Local lifter Pita Fanolua Jr, who competed in the men’s 77kg bodyweight category won the gold medal and female lifter Temple Fuimaono, who competed in the women’s +75kg bodyweight category won a silver and a bronze. Samoa News quotes team coach Faafouina Popoali’i saying that it’s a great feeling for him to be part of this team who won three medals for American Samoa. He says it wasn’t an easy task as there were a lot of top lifters from several countries competing in the tournament. Popoali’i says that though this was the first competition for some of the six-member team, all of them put up their best during the competition and they’re looking forward to competing at next year’s tournament hosted by Samoa. Source:

President of Kyrgyzstan awarded athletes

CA-NEWS (KG) - President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambaev met with prize winners of Asian Games and FISU Universiade. The President presented watches with inscribed names and 31 cash gifts to winners and prize holders of the Asian Boxing Championship in Indonesia, Asian Indoor Games in South Korea, Asian Youth Weightlifting Championship, Asian Wrestling Championship in Thailand, and World Student Games. Gold medal winners received cash gift of 150,000 som, silver medal winners – 100,000 som, bronze medal winners – 70,000 som. “Sportsmen illustrated a very good example for Kyrgyzstan. Your victory will remain in history of our country. This is not only your personal victory, this is victory of entire nation,” President Atambaev stated. Source:

ADAMS Update Information

The ADAMS environment will be shut down on Tuesday, July 23, from 00:00 to 06:00 GMT. WADA is planning an optimization of its current IT infrastructure that supports ADAMS and this work is designed to improve its overall function. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation, The ADAMS

Pakistan Weightlifting Federation Elections

The Elections of Pakistan Weightlifting Federation was held on 7 July 2013 under the supervision of representative from the Pakistan National Olympic Committee Mr. Rizwan Ul Haq. The following office bearers were elected Chairman: Mian Amer Mahmood President: Mian Muhammad Aslam Chief Executive Officer: Hafiz Imran Butt Vice Presidents: Muhammad Javed Anwar, Muhammad Rashid Malik, Abdul Aziz Khan, Sheeraz Muhammad, Nafees Ahmed, Ms. Nuzhat Jabeen General Secretary: Amjad Amin Butt Treasurer: Ali Aslam Chaudhry Executive Member: Hafiz Salman Butt, Malik Mazhar Ullah Khan, Muhammad Tanveer, Rashid Mahmood, Mushtaq Ahmed

Medal Transfer – To the rightful owner

In a simple, but very significant ceremony, the Vice President of the Puerto Rico Weightlifting Federation, Mr. Jose Delerme, awards three medals to Rusmeris Villar Barbosa (COL) for her victory in the 53kg category at the San Salvador CUP held in 2010. The puertorrican athlete, who won these medals was found with an Adverse Analytical Result, therefore transferred the medals to the rightful owner, Villar from Colombia. Serves as witness the head coach of the Colombian National team, Mr. Osvaldo Pirillo. All this happened during the Pan American Championships 2013 at Isla Margarita, Venezuela.   A la verdadera ganadora En una simple, pero significativa ceremonia, el Sr. José Delerme, Vicepresidente de la Federación de Halterofilia de Puerto Rico le hace entrega a Rusmery Villar tres medallas por su victoria en la categoría de los 53kg en la Copa San Salvador celebrada en el 2010. La atleta puertorriqueña quien ganó en esa ocasión obtuvo un Resultado Analítico Adverso, por lo que se hace la transferencia de medallas a su justa ganadora de Colombia. Sirve como testigo el Sr. Osvaldo Pirillo, entrenador en jefe de la Selección Nacional de Colombia. Esta ceremonia ocurre durante el Campeonato Panamericano de Halterofilia 2013 celebrado en Isla Margarita,

Incredible finish to Kazan Universiade with world-class lifting

Nothing could have better symbolized the level of weightlifting at the Kazan 2013 Summer Universiade than the last attempt in the +105kg category. Already holding the silver medal in his hands but still ambitious to take the gold away from Russia's stupefying champion Ruslan ALBEGOV, young Iranian Bahador MOULAEI needed to lift 10kg more than the best previous clean and jerk of both of them (254kg). That happened to be exactly 264kg: one kilo more than Rezazadeh's famed world record alive since 2004. This last attempt failed though, it was still a worthy ending to the superheavyweight event of an incredibly high standard. In fact, the whole weightlifting event of 6 days was studded by top-class performances and records. A total of 137 new Universiade records were established = about 80% of all the Universiade records set so far in Kazan, in all sports. Great thanks and congratulations to the organisers and to FISU on a wonderful weightlifting event. Also thanks to the IWF Technical Officials for their professional contribution to this success. (From Anikó Németh-Móra, FISU Weightlifting Technical Delegate -