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Final Entries for Houston are up

5 London Olympic Champions and 10 Almaty World Champions announced to compete The Final Entry List for the 2015 IWF World Championships Houston, USA has been published on our website. As Qualification Event for the 2016 Olympic Games, this competition is the most important milestone on the road leading to Rio. The George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston will stage from 20-28 November the 82nd Men’s and 25th Women’s World Championships. The Verification of the Final Entries will set the final numbers on 18 November at 18:00, but according to the Final Entries, we have now 745 athletes from 105 countries who will compete in Houston. Paris 2011 topped the number of participating countries with 87, and Athens 1999 topped the participating athletes with 626 lifters. Considering the impressive figures, the Record participation is still expected. The 2015 IWF World Championships will showcase countries never or rarely seen on the occasion of such competition: Afghanistan, Curacao, Estonia, Guam, Kiribati, Kosovo, Marshall Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Cook Islands, Aruba, Island, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Solomon Islands. 5 London 2012 Olympic Champions are announced: W63kg MANEZA Maiya (KAZ) – now in 69kg making her debut after maternity break W75kg PODOBEDOVA Svetlana (KAZ) – 1st competition since London 2012 M56kg OM Yun Chol (PRK) M62kg KIM Un Guk (PRK) M77kg LU Xiaojun (CHN) 10 World Championships Title defenders will be there from the 2014 IWF World Championships Almaty, KAZ: W58kg DENG Mengrong (CHN) W63kg DENG Wei (CHN) W69kg RYO Un Hui (PRK) W75kg EVSTIUKHINA Nadezhda (RUS) W+75kg KASHIRINA Tatiana (RUS) M56kg OM Yun Chol (PRK) M62kg KIM Un Guk (PRK) M85kg ROSTAMI Kianoush (IRI) M94kg KYDYRBAYEV Zhassulan (KAZ) M+105kg ALBEGOV Ruslan (RUS) Among others, we will miss: 2008 Olympic Champion LIAO Hui (CHN), 2012 Olympic Champion SALIMIKORDASIABI Behdad (IRI) who will not compete due to an injury as well as two times Olympic Champion ILYIN Ilya (KAZ), 2012 Olympic Champion CHINSHANLO Zulfiya (KAZ) and 2012 Olympic Champion ZHOU Lulu (CHN). The list contains all the Athletes who were entered as possible participants for the Event, however the IWF retains the right to decide on the athletes’ and MFs' eligibility in line with the respective IWF Rules and

IWF visit in Rome

Upon the invitation of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) President, Giovanni Malago and Italian Weightlifting Federation (FIPE) President, Dr. Antonio Urso, IWF President Dr. Tamas Ajan accompanied by Attila Adamfi, Director General and Eva Moska, Development and Education Director paid a visit to Rome. Discussions were held on candidature of Rome for the 2024 Olympic Games, especially about the concept of the weightlifting competitions at the Games. After discussions at CONI the headquarter of the Italian team, the weightlifting facility at the Olympic Training Center was also visited.   Photo (from left to right): Giovanni Malago, CONI President, Eva Moska, IWF Development and Education Director, Antonio Urso, Italian Weightlifting Federation (FIPE) President, Dr. Tamas Ajan, IWF President, Roberto Fabbricini, CONI Secretary General and Attila Adamfi, IWF Director

Deadline Reminder: 2015 IWF World Championships Houston Final Entries

Member Federations are herewith reminded that the deadline for submitting the Final Entries to the 2015 IWF World Championships Houston, USA is running out tomorrow! Please submit your Final Entries without any regard to your current VISA status. In case you have not yet submitted the Final Entry, here is your last chance to do

Deadline Reminder: 2015 IWF World Championships Houston Final Entries

Member Federations are herewith reminded that the deadline for submitting the Final Entries to the 2015 IWF World Championships Houston, USA is running out tomorrow! Please submit your Final Entries without any regard to your current VISA status. In case you have not yet submitted the Final Entry, here is your last chance to do

Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships results and info

The 2015 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships are ending tomorrow in Pune, India. 22 countries are participating with 181 lifters. Check out the website of the event for results and more info: http://commonwealthweightlifting.com/ Watch the webcast here:

Continental statistics

With less than 1 year to go to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, results reached at weightlifting calendar events and especially Continental competitions can bring us some interesting statistics. The 5 Continental Championships / Games held in 2015 were as follows: European Championships Tbilisi, GEO Oceanian Championships Port Moresby, PNG Pan-American Games Toronto, CAN Asian Championships Phuket, THA African Games Brazzaville, CGO The first statistical chart compiles the points given to the best 6 Total places from each continent by bodyweight categories. Making a theoretical attribution of points, the second chart is a potential ranking allowing the countries to have an insight in what their current results worth on a continental level. The third chart presents the potential ranking by countries following the same structure. The point structure attribution is as follows: 1st place 7 points 2nd place 5 points 3rd place 4 points 4th place 3 points 5th place 2 points 6th place 1 point At the end you can find a combined ranking list in each bodyweight category including the best 6 from each Continental