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European Weightlifting Federation President Mr. Antonio Conflitti and General Secretary Dr. Milan Mihajlovic paid a two-days (24-25 March) official visit to Yerevan at the invitation of the Armenian Weightlifting Federation. The main purpose of the visit was Armenia’s interest in hosting the 2023 European Senior Championships. On this occasion, EWF officials visited the sports facilities of Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex in the capital city and had official meetings at the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of The Republic of Armenia. Vahram Dumanyan: “We are ready to host the European Championships at the highest level”. Minister of…
78 participants, most of them International Technical Officials, took part in the first of the four educational training sessions for referees officiating at international competitions. The working session, held by Mr. Patrik Helgesson, EWF TC Member, and moderated by Mrs. Tina Beiter, EWF TC Chairwoman, was opened by President Mr. Antonio Conflitti and General Secretary Dr. Milan Mihajlovic welcome speech in which they congratulated the Technical Committee on the initiative and wished the participants success, encouraging them to participate in all proposed training activities. The first training webinar touched on all the technical and regulatory aspects about the importance of…
The EWF had received more number of requests to extend preliminary entries athletes number for European senior championships. Because the number of athletes for the preliminary entry is regulated by the IWF TCRR, article 3.4.2.2, EWF sent request to IWF TC if an exception could be made for this event. Following a discussion within the IWF TC, EWF received approval that for this event, national federations may apply 10+10 reserve male athletes and 10+10 reserve female athletes for preliminary entries. EWF expresses gratitude to the IWF TC Chairman and committee members for this exception and invites European national federations to…
With an idea to standardize emails of our organization, EWF opened new email addresses. EWF would like to kindly request National Federations to check their Spam folder since some NFs have reported that emails from Secretariat@ewf.sport were received in Spam. EWF also want to remind that emails from account ewfed.com are no longer active, thus for future correspondence, please use: EWF President, Antonio Conflitti president@ewf.sport EWF General Secretary, Milan Mihajlovic secretariat@ewf.sport EWF Treasurer, Astrit Hasani treasurer@ewf.sport EWF Technical Committee Chairperson, Tina Beiter TC@ewf.sport EWF Coaching Research & Scientific Committee Chairperson, Colin Buckley CRSC@ewf.sport EWF Medical Committee Chairperson, Tryggve Duun MC@ewf.sport Auditors…
We are very pleased to announce that the European Weightlifting Federation will continue to manage the administrative part of the EWF’s competitions (Entries, Transportation, Accommodation, Final Verification Meeting) and seminars through a new and very friendly platform developed by our partner Easy Sport. The EWF EASY ENTRY SYSTEM will allow the electronic and centralized management of all stages before the start of our competitions or seminars in compliance with the Regulations and Rules in force. In this regard, the EWF provided all Federations with user names and passwords to access the EWF EASY ENTRY SYSTEM platform. The EWF EASY ENTRY…
2022 IWF Junior World Championships will be held in the period 02–10 May in Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece. Final Regulation Document IWF
The 100th European Senior Weightlifting Championships will be held from May 28th to June 5th, 2022 in Tirana, Albania.The EWF Congress will be held on May 26th, 2022 in Durres, Albania.EWF Committees and EB Meetings shall be held on May 25th, 2022 in Durres, Albania.Result BookStart BookStart list by BWAlbania COVID GuidelinesFinal entries by nationFinal entries by BW2022 May 26 EWF Congress – Tirana ALB – AgendaEWF REGULATIONS 2022 Albania European Senior ChampionshipsPreliminary entries by nationsPreliminary entries by BWEWF INVITATION 2022 CONGRESS & SENIOR CHAMPIOSHIPS – ALBANIAALB Invitation 2022 SENIOR CHAMPIOSHIPS – ALBANIA
The EWF Technical Committee wishes to encourage everyone with an interest in ITOs work to participate in the following 2022 EWF online seminars: • March 23rd, 19.00-20.30 CET — Mr. Patrik HELGESSON, EWF TC member will make a lecture about the role of CHIEF MARSHALL • March 29th, 19.00-20.30 CET – Mr. Taisto KUOPPALA, Int. Ref. cat. 1. will make a lecture about the role of TECHNICAL CONTROLLER • April 6th, 19.00-20.30 CET — Ms. Tina BEITER, Chairwoman of the EWF Technical Committee, will make a lecture about the role of the JURY • April 12th, 19.00-20.30 CET – Mr.…
The European Weightlifting Federation shows full unity with the International Weightlifting Federation and strongly shares the commitments and measures imposed by the international governing body in the context of the IOC’s clear recommendations regarding the dramatic conflicts in Ukraine and participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials in the international and continental sport events. The EWF Executive Board supports the IWF Decision to suspend the participation of all athletes, team officials and technical officials from Russia and Belarus from any international or continental weightlifting event and decided to extend IWF restrictions to the EWF U15 and U23 competitions, until…
On February 22, 2022, H.E. Ilir Meta, President of Republic of Albania decorated the best Albanian weightlifter Briken Calja and his coach Gerald Toska for their outstanding sports results. The EWF is very grateful to H.E. Ilir Meta for his contribution to the development of weightlifting in Albania and not only. As former weightlifter, he fully understands the needs of our sport and will give his full support in the organization for the upcoming 100th Edition of the European Weightlifting Championships that will be held by the capital city of Tirana between 28 May and 05 June, 2022.