To finish, we'd like to celebrate all our female athletes, coaches & officials who contribute to our sport on a daily basis! Showing that female participation is at an all time high within the sport of weightlifting and within Weightlifting Ireland! šš» Last weekend we had the Munster Open Championships, hosted by Cork Weightlifting Club [...]
Today we'd like to celebrate all our female coaches & officials who have contributed to the growth of our sport and the increase in female participation. šš» We'd like to highlight two in particular; Aoife OāMoore - Student Sport Ireland Womenās Coaching Academy Graduate, 2023 & Margaret Janos - Weightlifting Ireland 2024 representative on the [...]
In 2019 Sport Ireland launched the Women in Sport Policy detailing the vision for Women in Sport: 'One where women have an equal opportunity to achieve their full potential while enjoying lifelong participation and involvement in sport'. By December 2023 all sporting organisations were required to have 40% female on their Boards. A snapshot of [...]
"If we can't see her.... we can't be her" : BeĆ”ta Jung - Team Ireland Female Coach How it started.... Iāve been coaching for almost thirteen years now at this stage. I started with kids gymnastics when I was seventeen years old. In my twenties, I started to coach CrossFit & Weightlifting while I also [...]
Women in Sport (WIS) week is taking placeĀ March 4thā 10th. The aim of Women in Sport Week is to: Celebrate every women and girl who plays, coaches, officiates, volunteers, works in and leads out on Women in Sport. Promote and highlight the ongoing work of Sport Ireland, NGBs, LSPs and other stakeholders and clubs under [...]
Some of the Irish Senior team went to a training camp in preparation for the upcoming European Senior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. They went to INSEP, (the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance) in Paris, France. After some social media postings by INSEP, some of the Irish Senior team were invited & able to [...]
The European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) Executive Board (EB) recently published developments in forming the EWF Athletes Commission under the new EWF Constitution. SeƔn Brown was among the applicants who went through a rigorous vetting process. During the process, particular interest was put on the lack of any doping violations during the athletes careers to date. [...]
Congratulations and a massive well done to all the transition year students from John Scottus Secondary School in Bray, Dublin. They participated and completed our "Introduction to Weightlifting" programme in collaboration with Weightlifting Ireland (WI) just before Christmas. This programme ran over four (4) weeks and it was the first all boys group we have [...]
April 2023 awarded goes to Thammy Nguyen! Thammy Nguyen earned her recognition at the European Senior Weightlifting Championships in Armenia. She won a bronze medal and became the first Irish competitor to win a senior medal in the event for Weightlifting Ireland. š„ The awards ceremony was hosted today in Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel. Everyone at [...]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published theĀ 2024 List of Prohibited Substances and MethodsĀ (List), which was approved by WADAās Executive Committee (ExCo) on the 22nd of September, 2023. WADA also published: theĀ 2024 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory NotesĀ as compared to the 2023 List; and theĀ 2024 Monitoring Program, which includes substances that are not on the [...]
