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2017 Universiade allocated to Taipei City, Chinese Taipei

At its meeting now ongoing in Brussels, after careful evaluation the FISU Board attributed the 2017 Summer Universiade to Taipei City, Chinese Taipei. Taipei City won against another strong candidate: Brasilia, Brazil. ‘I thank FISU for choosing my city to host the 2017 Summer Universiade', Taipei City Mayor Hau said. ‘After bidding five times to get the Games we finally got them! We promise a close collaboration with FISU to make these Games one of the best Universiades in FISU history.' FISU President Gallien added: ‘A lot of the EC members were convinced of the quality of the bidding book and the presentation and preparations of Taipei City. The National University Sport Federation of Chinese Taipei is a very active one. It has hosted many World University Championships, it will host the Forum in 2012 and now FISU's flagship event, the Universiade, in 2017. I'm confident Taipei City will deliver some wonderful Games.' We may remember that the 2nd World University Weightlifting Championships were hosted by Taichung, Chinese Taipei, in 2010. Congratulations to our friends in Chinese Taipei! At the same time, the organisation of the 28th Winter Universiade 2017 was attributed to Almaty, Kazakhstan. Source: FISU; A.Németh-Móra, FISU CT

FISU communication on +105kg medalists at SU 2011 Shenzhen

FISU officially confirmed the disqualification of Mohamed Masoud Ihssan (EGY), originally +105kg gold medal winner at the 2011 Universiade in Shenzhen, China due to his positive doping result. According to the updated results, the new Universiade Champion is Péter Nagy (HUN) who achieved the same Total of 412kg.

Asian Inter-Club Championships in Tashkent

The Asian Inter-Club Championships was officially opened yesterday by Mr. Jasur Akramov, 1st Deputy Minister on Sports Affairs of Uzbekistan. Tashkent already hosted the 2010 Asian Youth and Junior Championships and will organize the 2013 Youth World Championships. The enthusiastic Organizing Committee, led by UWF General Secretary, Mr. Shakrillo Makhmudov made again an outstanding effort to fulfill the athletes' requirements on the highest

Weightlifting mourns: Vasily Alexeev died

Vasily Alexeev, double Olympic champion in Munich 1972 and in Montreal 1976, eight times World Champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, and Honored Coach of the USSR died today. Vasily set 80 world records and 81 records of the USSR, including eternal world record Total in three lifts (645kg). Alexeev was a Member of the Weightlifting Hall of Fame 1993 and voted as the all-time best sportsman of his country. Probably he was the best known weightlifter of all times in the world. 7 January 2012 he would have turned 70 years old. At home in the city of Rostov region a great celebration was prepared, however since early November he was hospitalized in Badenhausen, Germany at a cardio clinic where he died today. The IWF offers its deep condolences to his family and the Russian Weightlifting Federation. Source: Russian Weightlifting

Belgorod – Technical Visit

Attila Adamfi, IWF Competition Director together with Anton Kislyakov, Russian Weightlifting Federation Vice President visited Belgorod, Russia in order to coordinate the preparation of the IWF Grand Prix - President's Cup taking place on December 16-18, 2011. The city is very excited to host such international event, the official hotel and venues are ready to welcome participants from all over the world. The world's strongest weightlifters as well as the strongest representatives of the Russian team are invited to participate in this tournament. Live TV coverage in High Definition with 14 cameras will be provided to broadcast this successful event deploying entertaining elements aiming to attract the attention of the viewers. The barbell supplier of the competition will be UESAKA. The company delivered brand new equipment received by Mr. Oleg Serdyukov, Minister of Sports of Belgorod Region. The IWF wishes great success to the organisers and to the participants! For more information go to:

2011 Asian Inter-Club Championships Tashkent, Uzbekistan

The AWF Electoral Congress was carried out in March 2011 in Tashkent. After this successful event Uzbekistan is again to host a significant meet. The 2011 Asian Inter-Club Championships is held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 25 November to 2 December. Last year, this series of the competitions was held in Amman, Jordan. It's remarkable that two years ago, the Uzbeks were the host of the Asian Inter-Club Championships that did very well in handling the competitions. These championships are held after the World Senior Championships and provide a field of an evaluation of the weightlifters or the countries that couldn't participate in the Worlds or might not do well in that event. 11 countries and approximately 123 athletes are expected to participate at Asian Cup & Interclubs Weightlifting Championships (AFG, IRI, KOR, THA, KGZ, PAK, PLE, QAT, TJK, TKM, and UZB). In the framework of the IWF Development Program, the Uzbekistan Weightlifting Federation will host an International Weightlifting Seminar for coaches and referees during the competition. For the referee part Mrs. Reiko Chinen from Japan will intervene as expert and for the coaching topics Mr Andras Szabo from Hungary will hold the