CAS allowed representatives of the Russian Weightlifting Federation to the IWF elections
The Court of Arbitration for Sport of Lausanne upheld the appeal of the Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) and established that the federation is entitled to delegate its candidates forthe elections to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). Thus, candidates from the Russian Weightlifting Federation – Maxim Agapitov, Dmitry Chernogorov, Alexandr Kishkin – will be able to file their candidacies for elections to the governing bodies of the IWF on June 25, 2022.
SILA International Lawyers represented the interests of the RWF, as well as each of the candidates, in the Court of Arbitration for Sport.