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University Worlds in progress

Competitions at the 9th University World Championships are in progress in Turkey?s third largest city, Izmir. As expected, Chinese and Thai lifters excel alongside the host nation, Turkey. Results can be obtained after each competition by clicking on

Record turnout expected at University Worlds

Thirty countries are sending their athletes to the 9th World University Championships in Izmir, Turkey, starting tomorrow. Among the 46 female and 92 male competitors Olympic and world championships are to compete. Competitions will run Friday to Sunday in the new Halkapinar Sports Hall. Strong performances are expected from the host Turkish, the Thai and the Chinese teams, but there may be surprise results or records by other student-athletes as

Nominate Technical Officials to Santo Domingo!

National Federations can send their nominations for Technical Officials (jury, referees, doctors, technical controllers) for selection to work at the 2006 Olympic Qualification World Championships in Santo Domingo, DOM. The Nomination Form can be downloaded here: Tech Off Nomination Form 2006 S Domingo.docDeadline for nominations: 20 July 2006. As a reminder: the IWF Annual Congress and the Technical Officials? Meeting will be held on 29th September 2006; Competitions of the World Championships will run from 30th September to 7th October

43 Weightlifters win Olympic Scholarship

The IOC Olympic Solidarity allocated its Olympic Scholarships for Athletes ?Beijing 2008? and as many as 43 weightlifters are among the awardees. The primary aim of the Olympic Scholarship is for the athlete to qualify for the Beijing Olympic Games and it includes an important subvention on a monthly basis, providing for an effective and smooth preparation of the athlete from now until the 2008 Olympic Games. Much to the IWF?s pleasure, in each Olympic cycle more and more weightlifters apply for and are granted such financial assistance (the procedure is application through the NOC). In the coming 28 months 32 male and 11 female weightlifters representing 23 nations, from Albania to Vietnam, can enjoy the benefits of this valuable

Iranian Superheavy World Champion also among the Juniors

The category of the heaviest juniors (+105kg) concluded with a big surprise. Newcomer 18-year old Iranian Saeid ALIHOSSEINI captured the gold medal in total. With his success, the superheavy champion?s titles are now retained by Iran both among the seniors (REZA ZADEH) and the juniors. The battle for the medals was unusually close: only 3 kilos separated the first from the 5th place winner.Ukrainian Ihor SHYMECHKO was unable to keep the 5-kg lead he had from the snatch until the end of the competition, because he jerked only 209kg against ALIHOSSEINI?s 215kg. Chinese LIU Guohui lifted most (225kg) in the clean and jerk but overall he came in only

105kg ? New Junior World Champion from Russia

The prolonged Russia vs. Kazakhstan duel eventually concluded in a success for the former in the 105kg category for men. The snatch was won by Belorussian Sergey ISTOMIN, but only on bodyweight over Russian Igor MERKUSHOV. In clean and jerk the Russian gained a massive 8-kg lead and pushed ISTOMIN back into bronze-medal position. MERKUSHOV captured the ultimate victory with a 379kg total, the runner-up being ISTOMIN and Roman RUSSYANOVSKY of Kazakhstan took the