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Oceania Events shifted to Fiji

By a press release coming from Paul Coffa, General Secretary of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation the OWF informs all concerned that the Oceania and South Pacific Senior, Junior and Youth Championships in conjunction with the Olympic Youth Qualification event (Oceania Continent) has been shifted from Nauru to Fiji. The dates remain the same, May 4th to 7th, 2010. The reason for changing the hosting country is that due to the large number of entries that Nauru received, the only flight per week that operates  from Fiji  to Nauru could not accommodate all the athletes and officials coming from the various islands. Therefore the OWF had no option but to relocate the event.  Information, timetable and relevant documents may be downloaded here and from the Calendar.

World Weightlifting 2009/3 – special Goyang World Championships issue

World Weightlifting's 2009/3 edition provides an overall coverage of the 2009 Goyang World Weightlifting

Weightlifting coaching course concludes in Pakistan

The Pakistan Weightlifting Federation in collaboration with the IOC Olympic Solidarity and the POA organised a coaching course at the Punjab University Ground Weightlifting centre from February 8 to 16.Qaiser Iftikhar, a diploma holder in weightlifting coaching from Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary, was the course director. Prof M. Azhar and Prof Khizer Hayat also delivered lectures.The following participants successfully attended this programme: Anjum Rohail Butt, Muhammad Rizwan, Kashif Barkat, Abdul Jabar Adnan, Aqeel Javed Butt, Muhammad Shafeeq, Rashid Mahmood, Abdul Ghafoor, Adeeb Akram, Muhammad Anjad Amin, Ali Imran Butt, Abdul Khaliq, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Ashfaq, Muhammad Ali, Zubair Yousaf Butt, Aleem Dar, Muhammad Sabir, Allah Rakha. This is the second episode of coaching courses being organized for the development of the National Sports Structure in weightlifting. The first course of this kind was organized in Karachi in November

Kumaritashvili’s body arrives in Georgia

The body of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the luger who was killed in an horrific training accident at the Winter Olympics, arrived in Georgia for an emotional homecoming. Draped in a Georgian flag, Kumaritashvili's coffin was carried through an honour guard of young athletes after arriving in the early morning hours at Tbilisi airport and was presented to his family. Before Kumaritashvili's coffin was loaded into a hearse for the 180-kilometre journey to his hometown of Bakuriani, where officials said his funeral would take place on Saturday. "His death is a great loss, not only for Georgia but for the whole world of sports," said one of the mourners, former Olympic weightlifting gold medallist Giorgi Asanidze. "Nodar deserves every possible tribute for his heroic sacrifice," said Asanidze, who is also a member of Georgia's parliament.

World Weightlifting opens Vote for Best Lifters of 2009

You are invited to send your Vote for the Best Lifters of 2009 by means of the Voting Form on this website. Deadline: 1 March

Inspection visit at Paris 2011 reveals advanced stage of preparations

Anikó Németh-Móra, IWF Director and Attila Ádámfi, IWF Competition Director made a technical inspection visit over the weekend in Paris, to co-ordinate the organisation of the 2011 Olympic Qualification World Championships. The visit and the discussions embraced the cheking of accommodation, competition venue, training, meals, technical organisation, regulation, transport, etc. - all important aspects of the Championships. Already now, 20 months prior to the event, an Organising Committee is in place and in full operation, under the care of FFHMFAC President Jean-Paul Bulgaridhes and professional experts appointed or employed in key positions. The IWF officials stated that the preparations were in an advanced stage and the French hosts are aspiring at staging the world championships to full satisfaction of the participants.