Weightlifting EWF European Championships 2017

[Federer91 2,865]

2 days until the Euro Champs, @heywoodu are you excited  This time with Bulgaria in supporting role, well until they detect us and kick us out.  Not a big team from what i found, though it would mark the return of Ivan Markov.

[dcro 10,210]

European Weightlifting Championships in Croatia of all places.

 

It's quite nice that IWF gives European championships to small weightlifting nations. Last year it was Norway, and before that Israel and Albania.

[Federer91 2,865]

32 minutes ago, dcro said:

European Weightlifting Championships in Croatia of all places.

 

How is the interest in Croatia, is it even know their are such championships. 

[dcro 10,210]

51 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

 

How is the interest in Croatia, is it even know their are such championships. 

 

Yeah, it has been mentioned.

 

There was a press conference about it few days ago, and the tickets will apparently be free.

[heywoodu 15,266]

2 hours ago, Federer91 said:

2 days until the Euro Champs, @heywoodu are you excited  This time with Bulgaria in supporting role, well until they detect us and kick us out.  Not a big team from what i found, though it would mark the return of Ivan Markov.

Does Eurosport show it again? If yes: I am excited  

[Gianlu33 4,696]

8 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Does Eurosport show it again? If yes: I am excited  

Yes, Eurosport will show it

[heywoodu 15,266]

Just now, Gianlu33 said:

Yes, Eurosport will show it

Just saw it, wonderful, I'll get the Dutch weightlifting fans rallied up on the Dutch forum  

[MHSN 3,645]

Waiting for the Start list but based on the entry list the level will be quite good. Russia is sending a strong team after missing the Olympics and since there is a big possibility for them to miss the next WCh.

 

and this is the first ever Women's 90kg competition, so we will probably have some new world records there.

 

ps: based on IWF rules, countries with more than 3 positive tests from 2008 and 2012 Olympic re-testing will receive 1 year ban from the competition but nothing yet since the process is not finished yet !! Moldova, Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine and Belarus are in this list. (plus China and Kazakhstan from Asia)

 

Imagine European Champs without those countries I listed when IWF said they will ban countries with 3 doping violences , I'm sure they didn't expect to have this list in their hands to ban !

[heywoodu 15,266]

This sounds like it's gonna be fun 

 

 

 

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European Championships start list

http://www.ewfed.com/2017/Split/start_book.pdf

 

Russian team looks strong on paper but they didn't post very high entries. maybe just because they didn't need to.