Norway: LEADERS ARE RECONFIRMED
Norwegian Weightlifting Federation President Per Mattingsdal and Ms Trine Selbek Secretary General have been reconfirmed in their positions for the next
Sam Coffa: OUR SPORT IS MOVING FORWARD
Interview with the 1st Vice President of IWF - How could you sum up your opinion about the last four years IWF work? - From a technical point of view I can never be satisfied. Never. No matter how much work we do, no matter how much innovations, how much changes we made, we can never be satisfied. Satisfaction means we stop, to stop means we go backwards. - But you could be satisfied if you fulfilled your plans, could not you? - Yes, that is true. We had a four year plan with many items on this program, from that point of view we have fulfilled all the plans we introduced for the first and second four years. For 8 years as far as I am concerned on the technical side we have fulfilled all the obligations we wanted. - There is a great rivalry among sports to survive on Olympic program or at least to survive among so many newly born and hungry sports. How can you see the future of weightlifting? - I am satisfied in a sense that we are in the program for London and that was our objective. Obviously we were terribly worrying about doping 4-5 years ago. The fact that we are in London it means we have done a few things right and even the IOC is looking at us being stable sport, a sport which is fairly well governed and moving forward. - What is the next step by your head? - To well guard everything from technical to anti-doping, to administration, all things like that. In general always look at the future.(by Dezső
Jean-Paul Bulgaridhes re-elected to preside French Federation
Today, on 29 March 2009, at the General Assembly of the French Weightlifting Federation (FFHMFAC), one of the world's largest and oldest, Jean-Paul Bulgaridhes was re-elected as President for another term with 93% of the votes.President Jean-Paul Bulgaridhes has chaired various Organising Committees for World and Continental Championships and the French Federation will be the host of the 2011 World Weightlifting Championshis in Paris.
Peruvian Weightlifting President elected to the head of the NOC
Jose Quinones, President of the Peruvian Weightlifting Federation, was elected as President of his country's National Olympic Committee. Under his chairmanship, Peru was the host of the 2007 University World Cup and the Pan-American Olympic Qualification Championships in 2008.
Hayworth Sets Sights on London Olympics
Three-time Olympian Cheryl Haworth is off to train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Olympic bronze medallist (2000) Savannah weightlifter starts training for the 2012 Olympics in London. During an announcement Haworth also donated the uniform she wore at the 2008 Beijing Games during the Opening Ceremonies. She suprised SCAD president Paula Wallace with the uniform at a ceremony on the SCAD campus. (by WSAV3)
Pacific Islands Cup Email Tournament
127 lifters took part in this very successful first ever Pacific Islands Cup Email Tournament. There was some outstanding performances with Ele Opeloge from Samoa in the 75+kg category totaling 265kg and winning the best female lifter. Whilst in the men division, the best lifter went to Yukio Peter from Nauru with a total of 355Kg competing in the 85kg category. Other excellent performances came from Manueli Tulo of Fiji in the 56kg category, breaking the Oceania total junior total with 228kg. (by
