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Olympic silver medal weightlifter honoured

Olympian weightlifter Hoang Anh Tuan has been presented with the Labour Order, Second Class, for his contributions to sport after winning silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in the men's 56kg category.Tuan was presented with the State award at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 29 to honour the best sportspeople and disabled athletes of the year. Tuan's 290kg lift won Vietnam's only medal at the Games and he was then selected Vietnam's 2008 athlete of the year. The 24-year-old weightlifter also received a cash-prize of VND100 million at the ceremony, awarded by the Dong Luc Group for his silver medal. Twenty-five athletes and coaches received the Labour Order, Third Class, for their contributions to sports over the last year. Among them were Olympian weightlifter Nguyen Thi

Norway: LEADERS ARE RECONFIRMED

Norwegian Weightlifting Federation President Per Mattingsdal and Ms Trine Selbek Secretary General have been reconfirmed in their positions for the next

Sam Coffa: OUR SPORT IS MOVING FORWARD

Interview with the 1st Vice President of IWF - How could you sum up your opinion about the last four years IWF work? - From a technical point of view I can never be satisfied. Never. No matter how much work we do, no matter how much innovations, how much changes we made, we can never be satisfied. Satisfaction means we stop, to stop means we go backwards. - But you could be satisfied if you fulfilled your plans, could not you? - Yes, that is true. We had a four year plan with many items on this program, from that point of view we have fulfilled all the plans we introduced for the first and second four years. For 8 years as far as I am concerned on the technical side we have fulfilled all the obligations we wanted. - There is a great rivalry among sports to survive on Olympic program or at least to survive among so many newly born and hungry sports. How can you see the future of weightlifting? - I am satisfied in a sense that we are in the program for London and that was our objective. Obviously we were terribly worrying about doping 4-5 years ago. The fact that we are in London it means we have done a few things right and even the IOC is looking at us being stable sport, a sport which is fairly well governed and moving forward. - What is the next step by your head? - To well guard everything from technical to anti-doping, to administration, all things like that. In general always look at the future.(by Dezső

Jean-Paul Bulgaridhes re-elected to preside French Federation

Today, on 29 March 2009, at the General Assembly of the French Weightlifting Federation (FFHMFAC), one of the world's largest and oldest, Jean-Paul Bulgaridhes was re-elected as President for another term with 93% of the votes.President Jean-Paul Bulgaridhes has chaired various Organising Committees for World and Continental Championships and the French Federation will be the host of the 2011 World Weightlifting Championshis in Paris.

Peruvian Weightlifting President elected to the head of the NOC

Jose Quinones, President of the Peruvian Weightlifting Federation, was elected as President of his country's National Olympic Committee. Under his chairmanship, Peru was the host of the 2007 University World Cup and the Pan-American Olympic Qualification Championships in 2008.

Hayworth Sets Sights on London Olympics

Three-time Olympian Cheryl Haworth is off to train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Olympic bronze medallist (2000) Savannah weightlifter starts training for the 2012 Olympics in London. During an announcement Haworth also donated the uniform she wore at the 2008 Beijing Games during the Opening Ceremonies. She suprised SCAD president Paula Wallace with the uniform at a ceremony on the SCAD campus. (by WSAV3)