The IWF World Weightlifting Championships 2023 is all set to begin this weekend featuring some of the best lifters worldwide, check out competition preview, dates, venue, format, full schedule, how to watch live and more below
The upcoming event is one of the two mandatory qualifying events for next year’s Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
IWF World Weightlifting Championships Riyadh 2023 schedule, date, time, live stream telecast in India
▫️More than 2500 Athlete 🏋️
▫️170 country 🌎
▫️3rd – 17th September 🗓️
▫️Ministry of Sport Hall📍📰| Riyadh is Ready to host #WWC2023 a qualifying championship to the Olympic Games #Paris2024
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— World Weightlifting Championships 2023 (@Weightliftingsa) August 14, 2023
Welcome world champions 🤩👋🏻
Riyadh welcomes WWC 2023 participants from September 3rd – 17th 🏋🏻#From_Here_To_Paris ✅ pic.twitter.com/aRIa6xdqKM
— World Weightlifting Championships 2023 (@Weightliftingsa) August 31, 2023
Notably, Indonesia’s Eko Yuli Irawan, the four-time Olympic medallist is set to compete at the upcoming competition in Riyadh.
IWF World Weightlifting Championships 2023 date and venue
The upcoming event is all set to take place in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia starting from 4-17 September.
Paris 2024 qualifications quotas
Athletes who wish to compete in next year’s Paris 2024 must appear in the upcoming competition in Riyadh to earn a one of the 10 quota spots across each of the 10 Olympic weight classes. This qualification will be based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Ranking (OQR). Aside from those 10 quotas, a National Olympic Committee (NOC) from a continent not already represented will earn a spot. NOCs are allowed to send only three lifters per gender for each weight class to Paris.
On the other hand, next year’s hosts, France have four guaranteed quota berths – two men and two women. Moreover, they can obtain two more spots through the OQR. Aside from those, there are six more spots – three men and three women – reserved as Universality places. These spots are meant for NOCs who would generally have little or no chance of representation at the Games. As such, there are a total of 120 spot available in total. Furthermore, NOCs have the exclusive authority for choosing which athletes will participate at the Paris Games.
IWF World Weightlifting Championships 2023 format
Usually, athletes are awarded medals based on the total weight lifted in the Olympic Games. Athletes win separate medals for the snatch, clean and jerk, and total weight. However, the upcoming competition will feature a total of 20 weight classes, 10 per gender.
IWF World Weightlifting Championships 2023 competition preview and notable athletes
Going into the competition, the People’s Republic of China will be looking to top the medal table after doing the same in Bogota at the 2022 World Championships last December. China’s top athletes include, Li Fabin, the Olympic 61kg champion, and Chen Lijun, the Tokyo 2020 -67kg gold medallist. Another favourite is Indonesia’s Eko Yuli Irawan, the Tokyo silver medallist looking to win a fifth Olympic medal in Paris.
Meanwhile, in the women’s 49kg class, Jiang Huihua, Hou Zhihui, and India’s Saikhom Mirabai Chanu are the favorites. As for the 59 kg, the Philippines’ Hidilyn Diaz, is set to compete agsint reigning champion Yenny Alvarez of Colombia, Canada’s Maude Charron and China’s Pei Xinyi. The women’s 81kg also features some big names like China’s Liang Xiaomei, Egypt’s Sara Samir Ahmed and USA’s Mattie Rogers. Joining them are Ecuador’s Neisi Dajomes.
Meanwhile, Dajomes’ sister Angie, is one of the favourites at the 71kg, alongside Romania’s Loredana-Elena Toma and USA’s Kate Vibert. The super-heavyweight divisions at Riyadh include the +109kg and +87kg in Riyadh in contrast with the +102kg and +81kg at Paris 2024. These categories will feature Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia and China’s Li Wenwen as the top favorites.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ali Davoudi, Talakhadze are the favorites in the men’s +109kg alongside Qatar’s Fares El-Bakh, Armenia’s Samvel Gasparyan and Tunisia’s Aymen Bacha. Meanwhile, the women’s +87kg features the likes of Britain’s Emily Campbell and Sarah Robles of the United States.
IWF World Championships 2023 schedule
Given below is the full schedule for the upcoming competition in local Arabia Standard Time – UTC+3:
| Date | Start Time | Category |
| Monday 4 September | 19:00 | Women’s 45kg |
| Tuesday 5 September | 16:30 | Women’s 49kg |
| 19:00 | Men’s 55kg | |
| Wednesday 6 September | 16:30 | Men’s 61kg |
| 19:00 | Women’s 55kg | |
| Thursday 7 September | 19:00 | Men’s 67kg |
| Friday 8 September | 19:00 | Women’s 59kg |
| Saturday 9 September | 19:00 | Men’s 73kg |
| Sunday 10 September | 19:00 | Women’s 64kg |
| Monday 11 September
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16:30 | Men’s 81kg |
| 19:00 | Men’s 89kg | |
| Wednesday 13 September
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16:30 | Men’s 96kg |
| 19:00 | Women’s 71kg | |
| Thursday 14 September | 16:30 | Women’s 76kg |
| 19:00 | Men’s 102kg | |
| Friday 15 September | 16:30 | Women’s 81kg |
| 19:00 | Women’s 87kg | |
| Saturday 16 September
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16:30 | Women’s +87kg |
| 19:00 | Men’s 109kg | |
| Sunday 17 September | 16:30 | Men’s +109kg |
2023 IWF World Weightlifting Championships how to watch live
Fans can watch the live streaming of the upcoming IWF World Weightlifting Championships in Riyadh on Olympic Channel via Olympics.com. The live streaming is also available on the official Olympics app for mobile devices.