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Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships (Senior and Junior) fixed date

Paul Coffa General Secretary of Commonwealth Weightlifting Federation officially informed us that after lengthy consultation with the Organising Committee of the 2009 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships for Senior and Junior the exact period is October 18th - 23rd, 2009. The host city of the Championships will be Penang (Malaysia). The program is as follows; October 18th Arrival of delegates October 19th CWF Congress and Opening Ceremony October 20, 21, 22, Competition dates October 23 Sight seeing tours and for some countries departure Full details will be sent out in early

Ethiopia President: High ranking NOC official

The newly elected Olympic Committee of Ethiopia is strengthened by President of Weightlifting Federation.Dr. Gobena Kebede. The board of high ranking officials: MR. BIRHAN KIDANEMARIAM - PRESIDENTMRS. BISRAT GASHAWTENA - 1ST VICE-PRESIDENTDR. GOBENA KEBEDE - VICE-PRESIDENTMRS. DAGMAWIT GIRMAY - GENERAL SECRETARYMR. GEBEYAW TAKELE -

German sports journalist Hilmar Bürger turned 70

Famous weightlifting sports journalist Hilmar Bürger from Germany celebrated his 70th birthday in March. Bürger was Vice President of the AIPS Weightlifting Commission 1986-1994, a Member of the same 1994-2002 and a Honorary Member since 2002. A citizen of Berlin and a passionate statistician and historian of the sport, he founded and has maintained one of the most comprehensive and valuable International Weightlifting Databanks under the name of „IWA" and has serviced a whole series of Olympic Games, World and European Championships with athlete profiles and data for the media. Hilmar became a Member of the Weightlifting Hall of Fame in 1995. Many happy returns to 70-year old Hilmar Bürger!

Special guests of IWF Electoral Congress

Special guests of IWF Electoral

Lucky week

President of the Polish Federation Zygmunt Wasiela was lucky enough to grab one of the Vice Presidents position in IWF (next to his Vice President position in EWF) at the Madrid Electoral Congress and three days later he had a nice time to enjoy the result of the Polish Olympic Committee's election as - after being its Treasurer in the past cycle - he was now elected as a Member of the Executive Board. At the end of this month another reason to celebrate will be his 58th birthday. Along with Mr. Wasiela,  Zygmunt Smalcerz the Olympic champion from Munich  was also elected to the Executive Board of the Polish Olympic Committee. Jan Hawrylewicz from Mazovian District Weightlifting Federation was elected as a member of  the Auditors

Lena Berntsson fifth in the 60 m sprint

The Swedish weightlifting champion in the 53 kg category, Lena Berntsson (Mosseberg AK), surprisingly qualified for the 60 m final at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Turin. Her personal bests in weightlifting are 70 kg in the snatch and 89 kg in the clean and jerk of the 53 kg category. In the first round in Turin she finished second in the 60 m sprint with 7.32 sec. In the semi-final she finished fourth with 7.34 sec and qualified for the final. In the final Lena set a new personal best with 7.26 sec and came fifth. (Eleiko News).