Mohammed Jalood President of the Weightlifting Federation IWF

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Status: 06/26/2022 5:47 p.m

The International Weightlifting Federation (IMF) has not dared to make a real fresh start in its bid for its Olympic existence. Iraqi Mohammed Jalood was elected president in the elections for the governing bodies on Saturday (June 26, 2022) in Tirana. The previous Secretary General, who has been a member of the association’s board since 2005, represents the controversial past of the IMF.

The Peruvian, who is also controversial, is the new Secretary General Jose Quinones. The President of the Pan American Federation has been Vice President of the IMF for the past nine years.

Signs of hope are the election of the reformer Ursula Papandrea, president of the US association, as first vice president and the Venezuelan Doris Travieso. Both stand for a radical change. In addition, the board was filled with ten new, unencumbered representatives, including Florian Sperl, President of the Federal Association of German Weightlifters (BVDG). “I want to influence the development of weightlifting”, Sperl said in the run-up to the sports show.

Florian Sperl, President of the Federal Association of German Weightlifters

Weightlifting not currently at the 2028 Olympics

Weightlifting has been taken off the schedule for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. As in the case of the World Boxing Association (IBA), a final decision will probably be made next year.

The documentary film by the ARD doping editorial team shows how unscrupulously the Olympic sport of weightlifting was governed. The authors go in search of clues into the kingdom of Hungary’s Tamás Aján, who had been president of the world association IMF since 2000 – and resigned in mid-April.

As with the Tokyo games, the IBA with the boxing officials is also suspended for the 2024 games. The competitions and qualifications are organized by the IOC.

Jalood: “Need to work together”

So far it has been said that weightlifting could possibly be canceled in Paris as early as 2024 if there are no reforms. The statute is new and democratic. So far, however, the management has not adhered to this and has mostly worked in a non-transparent manner.

“We must work together to keep weightlifting in the Olympic program,” said Jalood. As long as the supporters of the then President Tamas Ajan from Hungary, who stands for doping manipulation and opaque financial transactions, are not removed from the governing bodies, there can be no new beginning for most reformers in the association.

After corruption and doping were uncovered at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), weightlifting is threatened with exclusion from the Olympics as early as 2024.

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