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Asian Inter-Club Championships in Tashkent

The Asian Inter-Club Championships was officially opened yesterday by Mr. Jasur Akramov, 1st Deputy Minister on Sports Affairs of Uzbekistan. Tashkent already hosted the 2010 Asian Youth and Junior Championships and will organize the 2013 Youth World Championships. The enthusiastic Organizing Committee, led by UWF General Secretary, Mr. Shakrillo Makhmudov made again an outstanding effort to fulfill the athletes' requirements on the highest

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Weightlifting mourns: Vasily Alexeev died

Vasily Alexeev, double Olympic champion in Munich 1972 and in Montreal 1976, eight times World Champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, and Honored Coach of the USSR died today. Vasily set 80 world records and 81 records of the USSR, including eternal world record Total in three lifts (645kg). Alexeev was a Member of the Weightlifting Hall of Fame 1993 and voted as the all-time best sportsman of his country. Probably he was the best known weightlifter of all times in the world. 7 January 2012 he would have turned 70 years old. At home in the city of Rostov region a great celebration was prepared, however since early November he was hospitalized in Badenhausen, Germany at a cardio clinic where he died today. The IWF offers its deep condolences to his family and the Russian Weightlifting Federation. Source: Russian Weightlifting

Belgorod – Technical Visit

Attila Adamfi, IWF Competition Director together with Anton Kislyakov, Russian Weightlifting Federation Vice President visited Belgorod, Russia in order to coordinate the preparation of the IWF Grand Prix - President's Cup taking place on December 16-18, 2011. The city is very excited to host such international event, the official hotel and venues are ready to welcome participants from all over the world. The world's strongest weightlifters as well as the strongest representatives of the Russian team are invited to participate in this tournament. Live TV coverage in High Definition with 14 cameras will be provided to broadcast this successful event deploying entertaining elements aiming to attract the attention of the viewers. The barbell supplier of the competition will be UESAKA. The company delivered brand new equipment received by Mr. Oleg Serdyukov, Minister of Sports of Belgorod Region. The IWF wishes great success to the organisers and to the participants! For more information go to:

2011 Asian Inter-Club Championships Tashkent, Uzbekistan

The AWF Electoral Congress was carried out in March 2011 in Tashkent. After this successful event Uzbekistan is again to host a significant meet. The 2011 Asian Inter-Club Championships is held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 25 November to 2 December. Last year, this series of the competitions was held in Amman, Jordan. It's remarkable that two years ago, the Uzbeks were the host of the Asian Inter-Club Championships that did very well in handling the competitions. These championships are held after the World Senior Championships and provide a field of an evaluation of the weightlifters or the countries that couldn't participate in the Worlds or might not do well in that event. 11 countries and approximately 123 athletes are expected to participate at Asian Cup & Interclubs Weightlifting Championships (AFG, IRI, KOR, THA, KGZ, PAK, PLE, QAT, TJK, TKM, and UZB). In the framework of the IWF Development Program, the Uzbekistan Weightlifting Federation will host an International Weightlifting Seminar for coaches and referees during the competition. For the referee part Mrs. Reiko Chinen from Japan will intervene as expert and for the coaching topics Mr Andras Szabo from Hungary will hold the

Cristina Iovu focuses on new targets

Christina Iovu (MDA) Junior European Champion was happy with her progress throughout 2011 and she thought the competition in Paris would have been her peak during her career up to now. Her opening 83 kg was the second highest weight to Snatch in 48kg bodyweight category. She was injured and had to withdraw. After her disappointing bad luck Cristina Iovu hasn't yet fully recovered from her right arm ligament trauma. Her injury at the moment still causes pain and discomfort. Currently Cristina is still doing a number of physiotherapy procedures (including laser therapy) necessary for her full recovery. Surprisingly Cristina continued her training sessions upon her return from Paris. Notably, at the moment she is avoiding putting too much pressure on her arms. As Iovu explains, her trainings sessions are not in full strength while she's still injured, and she mostly does exercises putting most of the pressure on the legs and back, such as squats. Her next competition would be the European Championship in Antalya next April. By Natalia