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Junior World Championships for 2010 and 2011 found venue

At its meeting held in ChiangMai, Thailand, the IWF Executive Board allocated the 2010 Junior World Championships to Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and the 2011 Junior World Championships Callao, Peru.At the IWF Calendar Conference, the dates and the venues of the main international events were fixed for 2008. For the updated Calendar go to: 2008

The ChiangMai Worlds in photos

Photos of the wonderful and colourful events of the Royal WWC now appearing on this website.Please go to Photo

World Championships live on the web – Immediate Results here

Live webcasting from ChiangMai is provided for subscribers - outside Europe - at www.jalipo.com. Go to Live Events.At the same time, as usual, we publish the Results immediately after each category's A Group on this website.

Royal World Championships kicked off in ChiangMai

HRH The Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Thailand declared the 2007 Royal World Weightlifting Championships open in ChiangMai yesterday. The Opening Ceremony was a spectacular show in true Thai Royal style, worthy of what may become the biggest World Championships in history.According the Start List, even the all-time record attendance of Athens 1999 may be upset here, at least for the women. In altogether 50 (!) groups? competitions during the next 10 days, 245 women competitors are to take part representing a record 58 countries, alongside the field of 388 male athletes from 76 nations. That is just a little under the previous record.Nevertheless, huge fights are expected in all categories with the A finals live on TF both in Thailand and

Paris can organise the 2011 World Championships

The allocation of the 2011 Olympic Qualification World Championships was one of the key items on the agenda of the IWF Executive Board at its ChiangMai meeting today. Two equally strong candidates - Los Angeles, California, USA, and Paris, France - presented brilliant bids rated by IWF President Dr. Aján as being on par with Olympic candidatures.Both the USA and the French Federation's candidatures enjoyed the full support of the respective governments, cities, National Olympic Committees and sports authorities and were submitted to the Board in professional and spectacular presentations. All agreed that it was an extremely difficult decision between two equally determined candidates.Finally, the vote favoured the Paris candidature (10:8). As Jean-Paul Bulgaridhes, President of the French Federation vowed: the French capital would organise "The Championships of the 3rd Millennium" in 2011, also apt to be the dress rehearsal of the 2012 London Olympic

“In Chiangmai preparations are very well advanced” – say IWF officials

Anikó Németh-Móra, Director, and Attila Ádámfi, Competition Director, who arrived in Chiangmai, site of the 2007 Qualification World Championships on 10 September, stated that the Thai hosts were well on time with the preparations to welcome the Weightlifting Family.TAWA Organizing Committee has set up its facilities in the two hotels offering hospitality to the representatives of more than ninety countries - ChiangMai Orchid Hotel and Lotus Hotel - and are near to completing the venue, the Sports Complex.Those participants who had sent information on their itinerary to the 2007 RWWC Organizing Committee are receiving very valuable assistance from the Thai hosts during their transfer in Bangkok (immigration, visa, check-in). In the Northern Thailand city, public and media attention is increasingly focusing on what they expect to be a main event in Thailand's most successful