Egypt won the 2023 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, collecting ten different medals, including four gold medals, four silver medals, and two bronze medals.
The 2023 edition of the IWF World Youth Championships takes place from 25 March to 1 April in Durrës, Albania. It was w attended by 268 athletes (135 men, 133 women) from 57 countries.
Seven national delegations brought 10 or more competitors to the event: the USA (17), India (13), Chinese Taipei, Egypt, and Ukraine (all with 12), and Armenia and Kazakhstan (11 each).
Egyptian weightlifter Rahma Ahmed won three medals: a gold medal in the clean category, a silver medal in the snatch category, and a silver medal in the total snatch category, while Habiba Saad won two silver medals in the snatch category in below 49 kg category.
Weightlifter Renad Mohamed Hassan Maghraby won a bronze medal in the 91k snatch competition in the 76kg weight category.
The IWF World Youth Championships is an annual competition, whose first edition was held in Chiang Mai (THA) in 2009, one year before the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. Since then, this IWF rendezvous has revealed many talents, who were then able to also shine at senior events, namely the IWF World Championships. The last edition, in June 2022, was hosted by the Mexican Federation, with the young athletes experiencing a very successful event in Leon.
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