ELEIKO Scholarship
IWF affiliated National Federations may now submit their candidate for the 2006 ELEIKO Scholarship, which can help its winner on his/her path as a weightlifter. You can download the information and application sheet
IWF Annual Book 2005 ? Centenary Issue
Compiled by IWF Honorary Life President Gottfried Schödl, the latest issue of the IWF Annual Book 2005 gives an account on the Centennial Year more comprehensive and detailed than ever before. Printed on 82 pages, the Annual Book reports on all the important events, world records, medal tables, Federation activities, etc. that marked the year 2005. It also contains interesting and unique statistics and various rankings that are true delicacies for weightlifting journalists, officials or fans. Copies are available from the IWF
2005 Annual World Ranking Lists published
1034 performances by 725 women from 90 countries, as well as 1758 results achieved by 1361 men from 125 nations constitue the 2005 Annual World Ranking Lists just published by the IWF Secretariat. The rankings are available on this website and are just being mailed out in a printed book format to the National Federations and officials. Further hard copies can be requested from the IWF
2008 Beijing Olympic Qualification System
Olympic Qualification for the 260 athlete slots at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games starts with this year's World Championships in Santo Domingo. The detailed Olympic Qualification System is now published and downloadable from this website. IWF 2008
WHEREABOUTS INFORMATION
IMPORTANT! WHEREABOUTS INFORMATION FOR FEBRUARY - MAY 2006 ! Please go to the link under: Sport & Organization / Anti-Doping Info / Whereabouts Data
Alert! – Voting about to be frustrated by irresponsible “voters”
When launching the "Lifters of the Year 2005" election, we hoped that last year's disaster won't repeat this time - when spam "voting cards" carrying only one name, that of Hossein Reza Zadeh - overloaded and paralysed the IWF's communication system for weeks. Much to our dismay, however, we have to see that irresponsible people are now trying to do the same, as "votes" started to pour immediately by e-mail and fax from unidentifiable or Iranian sources, thus blocking the way of other, regular Voting Cards. Therefore, we kindly ask the fans to STOP flooding the e-mail address and the fax with such mail! At the same time, we are forced to confirm that ONLY THE VOTING CARDS CARRYING 3 NAMES FOR MEN AND 3 NAMES FOR WOMEN will be taken into consideration in the election. Also, only one Voting Card will be accepted from one person. Repeated votes will lead to automatic elimination of all the votes from the same source. If the dumping of the irregular votes should continue, we shall have to consider cancelling the entire Best Lifter election - which would be a great pity for the sport and for the deserving athletes. We count on the good sense and the goodwill of the Friends of Weightlifting and sincerely hope that we can conclude the Best Lifters of 2005 election can be concluded in a fair, legal and dignified
