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Call to nominate Technical Officials to the 2007 UWC, Lima

The IWF has sent to the National Federations a Call for TOs inviting them to propose Technical officials to the 2007 University Weightlifting World Cup, which will be held in Lima, Peru, 8-12 August. Nominations may be made by returning the NominationForm to the IWF before 31 May

Dr. Tamás Aján reelected as GAISF Vice President

Since 1989 Dr. Tamás Aján has been a Member - later on Vice President - of the leadership of the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF/AGFIS). The organisation, now comprising exactly 100 international sports-governing bodies and thus one of the most prestigious in the world of sport, held its annual General Assembly in Beijing at the end of April where the IWF President was once again given confidence by election to Vice President. Dr. Aján is thus the longest-serving official of the organisation. Find out more about AGFIS/GAISF:

Watch USA National Championships live

USA Weightlifting is organizing the 2007 National Weightlifting Championships in Chicago, this weekend May 11-13.Through the effort of the organizing committee USA Weightlifting secured a free live internet feed signal. This will offer the opportunity for many people around the world to watch weightlifting via internet video distribution.Anybody interested to watch the competition, for free, needs to just click on the link below for more info. 

UESAKA E-mail Club Tournament registered 1,050 entries

It is great news for weightlifting sent by Paul Coffa, OWF General Secretary from Samoa.The Uesaka Email International Club Tournament has just concluded and it has certainly set new records.1050 lifters from 128 clubs world wide entered the tournament. Organizers were delighted to see that clubs from each of the five continents took part.  You can find all the results on the Oceania Weightlifting Federation website 

Chinese sweep Asian Championships on home turf

China launched many of its Olympic and world champions at the Asian Championships held in Tai'an City, Shendong Province, and retained the bulk of honours at the event. In fact, in each of the seven women's categories there was a Chinese winner. Chen Xiexia (48kg), Li Ping (53kg) and Qiu Hongmei (58kg) set up new world and world junior records.In the men's field, Vietnamese prodigy Hoang Anh Tuan confirmed his position as the champion, defeating two Chinese rivals. In the absence of a few stars (e.g. Ilin from Kazakhstan or Reza Zadeh from Iran), the categories from 62kg to 85kg were taken by Chinese competitors, among them names like Shi Zhiyong or Li Hongli. Asian Games winner Syrian Ahed Joughili won in 105kg by a large margin over Qatar's former star Assad Saeed Said Saif. Even more surprising was the victory of an emerging Chinese superheavy, Sun Haibo, who beat Olympic medallist Jaber Salem with an impressive 431kg result he meant as an introduction.The men's only world record was born in the 62kg: 177kg clean and jerk by Yang Fan (CHN).For world records, see: http://www.iwf.net/iwf/events/wr/record_cur.phpFor results, see:

Youth Olympic Games

The IOC Executive Board met in Beijing and has approved unanimously to propose the creation of Youth Olympic Games (YOG) to the Session in Guatemala City in July. This project will allow the IOC to offer young people an event with competitions adapted to their age and development. The YOG will comprise a strong educational and cultural component. This will be a powerful initiative to expose young people to the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect, and it will be an opportunity to inform them about threats such as doping, violence and over-commercialisation of sport. The first edition of the Youth Olympic Games would be tentatively set for 2010. In his earlier conversation with IWF President Dr. Tamas Ajan, the IOC President had said "Weightlifting must be on the program" of the