Moscow awarded 2030 World Weightlifting Championships
The IWF has awarded Moscow the 2030 World Weightlifting Championships, the first world championship to be held in Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.
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Moscow will host the 2030 World Weightlifting Championships, the first world championship awarded to Russia by an international sports federation since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) also awarded the 2029 event to Ahmedabad, India.
The 2030 competition will be the first time Moscow has hosted the championships since 1983. Kazan had been due to stage the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, but that event was moved to Singapore.
Russian and Belarusian weightlifters have been allowed back into IWF international competitions since the International Olympic Committee ended their exclusion in July. Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee has appealed that decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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