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Eleiko Women Grand Prix 2009

At the Eleiko Women Grand Prix 2009 from 21 - 24 May in Lochen, Upper Austria there will be a strong competition with more than 11 nations.Egypt starts with an excellent team. Enga El Sayed Mahmoud 48kg Shimaa Gamal Maged 53 kg Rawia Hassan Shaban 58 kg Shimaa Mohamed Mohamed 63 kg Esmat Mansour El Sayed 63 kg Fatma Abdel Lattief Abdel Hay 69 kg Abir Abdel Rahman Khalil 75 kg Nahla Ramadan Mohamed +75 kg Beijing Olympic Games 7th Ruth Kasirye (NOR) will start in 69 kg as well. Final entry: 23th April 2009

Preview of European Weightlifting Championships (start list)

Preview of European Weightlifting Championships26.03.2009 It will be Bucharest (Romania) hosting the 90th edition (22nd for female) of European Weightlifting Championships, from the 3rd to the 12th of April 2009. After the great success of Beijing Olympic Games, the great champions of Weightlifting Sport on the continental platform come back. Numbers are so high: 250 athletes from 35 participant Nations. The event is going to be held in the "Sala Polivalenta" Bucharest, a multifunctional structure with 5 thousands spectators capacity and a dedicated area for the Warm Up and for the Training Area. As usual, during the competitions only Eleiko Barbells will be used. All participants will be accommodated in Bucharest's Rin Grand Hotel. To introduce the eight-days of competitions, on Sunday April the 5th, there will be the challenges of Women 58kg B Group at 11 o'clock a.m. and Men 56kg B Group at 12.30 a.m. At 15.30, with the Opening Ceremony it will be officially lead off the 2009 European Weightlifting Championships. Competitions will go on till Sunday April the 12th when, as usual, at 13 o'clock, there will be the spectacular +105kg male category competition that will end the event. 2009 is an important year for European Weightlifting Federation (EWF). Bucharest's Championships, in fact, will represent the best way to celebrate the 40th Foundation's anniversary. During the event merit certificates will be awarded to the nine centenarian European Federations that have offered an on-going and constant activity in time in Weigthlifting Sport. EWF's President, Mr Antonio Urso, with a speech of his own will go back over the Federation's history in order to remember to all those present how much EWF has carried out until now in Weightlifting field. The big absent will be the Olympic Champ for the +105kg category, German Matthias Steiner. The battle in this category would be among the Ukranian Ihor Shymechko and the two Russian Evgeny Pisarev and Igor Lukanin. 2009 is an important year also for the Romanian Weightlifting Federation as after so many years it has been given the opportunity to host two great Weightlifting International events: between April the 3rd and 12th there will be the European Championships and two months later the Junior World Championships (June 12th-21st). (by EWF) START

News from Oceania

Nauru Olympic Committee appoints new President His Excellency, Marcus Stephen, OWF President has recently been elected President of the Nauru Olympic Committee for the next four years. Marcus is the only Head of State to have competed at three Olympic Games. He competed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, 1996 Atlanta Olympics and at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. New Office Bearers for Nauru Weightlifting Congratulations to Aaron Cook for being elected the new President of the Nauru Weightlifting Federation. And congratulations also to the new General Secretary, Sheeva Peo Cook. Sheeva was one of the greatest lifters of the Pacific for many years in the +75Kg category. She is a former Olympian, representing Nauru at the Sydney Olympics.

Invitation, Time Schedule, Regulation and Forms now available for WJC 2009

The Romanian Federation has prepared and launched the details for the 35th Men's and 15th Women's World Junior Weightlifting Championships, which will be held in Bucharest, 12-21 June 2009.You can download the Invitation, the Schedule and the Forms from this website. Regulation Preliminary Entry Form WOMEN Preliminary Entry Form MEN Final Entry Form WOMEN Final Entry Form MEN Accommodation Form  

Report on Coaching course in Dubai (UAE)

In the time period 8-12 March, 2009 a coaching course was organized by the Weightlifting Federation of United Arab Emirates for local coaches and administrators of olympic lifting. The total number of participants was over 30 people, including 3 female coaches. The place of the course was a conference center with all the necessary high level tools for theoretical lectures and practical training. The topics covered the following fields:- history of modern weightlifting, activity of IWF- biomechanical aspects of lifting techniques- training methods, training planning- nourishment and supplementation of lifters, problems of doping, side effects- teaching of beginners, technique developmebnt (practical session)- importance of assistant sports in weightlifting training (practical training)- performance analysis of top lifters of world championships and olympic games (video analysis) The conductor of the course was Andras S. Szabo, IWF expert, PhD, DSc, university professor. According to his report the participants were very active. „I do hope it was a useful course for help and improvement of the weightlifting sport in UAE. From the vice-president of the WFUAE, Mr. Abdul Karim Saeed Mohammad Bilal I have got all support to conduct a successful course in Dubai"- he

New President of the Austrian Weightlifting Federation

Former Kronenzeitung sports journalist and AIPS member, 67-year-old Norbert Wallauch has been elected to the top position in the Austrian Weightlifting Federation. Wallauch, who was elected in Linz, follows Johann Parmetler as President. Between 2001 - 2007 Wallauch was the President of the International Powerlifting Federation. Officer bearers ÖGV 2009 - 2012 President : Norbert Wallauch (Wien)Vice-President: Franz Langthaler (Wien)Vice-President:: Robert Horacek (Wien)Finance: Ing. Manfred Faly (Wien), Katharina Peya (NÖ) (by Conny Högg, Press Officer