IWF Junior World Championships starts with six Egyptian participants

CAIRO – 7 July 2018: The 2018 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Junior World Championships starts on Saturday at the Uzbekistan Sport Complex in Tashkent and conclude the following Saturday (July 14).

Six Egyptian players are expected to feature in the IWF including the Champion Sara Samir. The list includes: Ahmed Kamel, Ahmed Ashour, Mohamed Hesham, Osama El Garhy, Sara Samir and Israa El Sayed.



The men’s categories are 56 kilograms, 62kg, 69kg, 77kg, 85kg, 94kg, 105kg and over-105kg.
Women, meanwhile, will compete at 48kg, 53kg, 58kg, 63kg, 69kg, 75kg, 90kg and over-90kg.

Egyptian champion, Sara Ahmed, wrote another chapter in her history when she added another two gold medals to her collection at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain.