ArmInfo. The European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) announced that Russian and Belarusian weightlifters are not included in the final list of participants in the European Championship, which will be held from April 15-23 in Yerevan.
<Athletes from Russia and Belarus are not in the final lists>, the EWF representative said, TASS quotes.
The preliminary list of participants in the European Championship 2023 included 38 Russian and 27 Belarusian weightlifters (men and women), including substitutes.
The April European Championship in Yerevan is one of the qualifying tournaments for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. If the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) allows Russian athletes to participate in Asian tournaments, then domestic weightlifters will have a theoretical opportunity to compete in the Asian Championship, which will be held in South Korea from May 3 to May 13 and is also a qualification for the 2024 Games.