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Junior European Championships started in Sweden

The continental challenge for Europe's Junior lifters started with an Opening Ceremony and the first competitions on 28 July 2009.3 years after hosting the European Youth Championships, the small but sports-loving city of Landskrona is the venue of this year's edition of the Junior Championships. Swedish Weightlifting Federation President Benny Johansson and his staff provide a comfortable and friendly atmosphere to the participants. More information and live Results: http://www.polska-sztanga.h2.pl/live/

IWF President attends EWF Congress in Landskrona

The European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) held its Congress in Landskrona, Sweden, on the eve of the Junior European Championships. IWF President and Honorary EWF President Dr. Tamás Aján was also in attendance and greeted the Congress participants and the host Swedish Federation.

Happy Birthday! Gottfried Schödl 85

Gottfried Schödl's 85th birthday Gottfried Schödl was President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) between 1972 and 2000. He ran the world of weightlifting for a record number of 28 years from the moment when press lift had been cancelled to the end of the 20th century. Gottfried Schödl began his sports career as a skater then turned to Olympic weightlifting. He was an international category I referee since 1964 and served as the President of the Austrian Federation from 1969 to 1990. Besides his success in managing the IWF, Gottfried Schödl is a distinguished journalist, sportswriter and one of the sport's greatest historians and statisticians. His books and publications are all of historical value in the sport of Olympic weightlifting. The Weightlifting Family wishes him good health on his his 85th birthday.

To all lifters, coaches, officials participated at the Beijing Olympic Games

We are very close to the first anniversary of the unforgettable Beijing Olympic Games. We all have memories of the Asian capital, its everyday life, culture, people and habits. Many of us had a chance to look around the city, to visit some places of interest or climb on Great Wall. To remember those nice days now the managers of IWF web site ask you all, lifters, coaches, officials to select among your best and popular Beijing photos and send to us for public use on IWF web site. Let's make an international memory album together! We invite you all who wish to join and send us your favourite photos taken a year ago in Beijing. The focus is on your non-competition photos ( city, Olympic village, silk market, shopping, excursions, among friends, whatever) but of course you are welcome if you wish to publish competiton photo on yourself or on your friend as well. This is the time to collect the best private photos depicting you or your team mates somewhere in Beijing . This is the best way to represent the members of our weightlifting society around the world. Looking for the funniest, the most friendly, the kindest in brief all types of photos you like. Do not be shy! Our interactive site is yours! We all appriciate and thank for your efforts. Let us start today! You can send your photos to DEZSŐ DOBOR, HEAD PRESS OFFICER OF IWF

World records broken

Taiwan's Chen Wei-ling has broken two world records to capture the gold medal in the women's powerlifting lightweight division at the World Games in Kaohsiung Saturday. Chen set world records in the squat and deadlift to offset her fifth-place finish in her weakest powerlifting discipline, the bench press, to win the gold medal with a combined score of 668.27 points. "I'm really happy to have won gold at a World Games being held in Taiwan and fulfill people's expectations. I felt I had a good chance to win, so I didn't feel that much pressure," said a happy Chen. "I'm very satisfied with the result. I accomplished 99.9 percent of what I wanted to achieve." A bronze medalist in the under 48kg class in the Olympic weightlifting competition in Beijing, Chen said powerlifting more closely suits her skills because its emphasizes strength rather than technique, which is an important part of weightlifting. With the lightweight powerlifting division at the World Games open to all lifters under 52kg, the actual weights lifted are multiplied by "weight factors" to determine the point totals the competitors receive for each lift. Lighter lifters had their lifts multiplied by bigger weight factors to even the playing field. Thus the 46kg Chen, for example, still earned the most points in the deadlift despite lifting 7.5 kilos less than heavier compatriot Chou Yi ju. The broader weight class also allowed two world records to be set in the same lift category. Chen's deadlift of 195.0kgs set the world record for the under 48kg class and Chou's deadlift of 202.5kgs. set the record for the under 52kg class. The gold medalist also entered the record books with a squat of 207.5kgs, shattering the old record of

Anti-Doping Norway’s newsletter

Anti-Doping Norway believes that the sharing of knowledge and experience across borders contributes in improving and strengthening the fight against doping in sport. Therefore, through this newsletter, we wish to share some of our activities with our anti-doping friends throughout the world. In this way, we can learn form each other and make each other better. (Anti-Doping Norway)You can read pdf Frech, Spanish and Russian as