The EWF is pleased to receive the news that the official visit of the EWF President, Kt. Antonio Conflitti and the Secretary General, Dr. Milan Mihajlovic, to the headquarters of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, was included in the 2024 Official electronic Magazine of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, in the section Hellenic Olympic Committee and International Relations, among all the events and activities that marked the past year.

The full version of the electronic Magazine can be accessed on the Hellenic Olympic Committee website.

On March 15, 2024, the EWF leadership, accompanied by Olympic champion Pyrros Dimas, had an official meeting with the President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee and the European Olympic Committees, Mr. Spyros Capralos and the HOC General Secretary Emmanuel Kolympadis. The EWF officials therefore had the opportunity to discuss the European Youth and U15 Championships, which took place in Thessaloniki, in June 2024 and they did not lose the opportunity to discuss in detail the activity of the European weightlifting governing body, about projects, development and about the determination to include weightlifting in the program of the continental competitions held under the auspices of the European Olympic rings.

Moreover, the activities undertaken to promote weightlifting at the EOC level, including the mixed demonstration international weightlifting event, organized in Maribor, Slovenia one day after the Opening Ceremony of the 2023 European Youth Olympic Festival, were all remembered, with the huge desire to reach the EWF goals of being accepted as soon as possible in the EOC Events calendar.

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The visit ended with positive feedback and support from President Capralos to the idea of ​​​​seeing weightlifting in the program of the 2027 European Games. This aspect, in the meantime, took shape and after the EOC General Assembly, that took place in Bucharest – on the 5th and 6th of June 2024, our sport was included in the preliminary program of this competition.

It was for the first time that EWF participated in an EOC Session and the presence was ensured by EWF President Antonio Conflitti and Executive Board Member Alexandru Padure.

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EWF takes this occasion to address special thanks to the Hellenic Olympic Committee for this special surprise and, in particular, to President Capralos for the openness and availability.

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