The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, is the international governing body for the sport of Weightlifting. It has 193 affiliated national federations, and its president since June 2022 is Mohammed Hasan Jalood of Iraq. The IWF organizes the World Weightlifting Championships, as well as world championship events for Youth and Juniors. It also cooperates with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the organization of Weightlifting events at the Olympic Games; however weightlifting's inclusion in the 2028 Olympics is uncertain, due to doping issues within the sport, and governance issues within IWF, and weightlifting's inclusion is expected to be decided by an IOC meeting in 2023. Weightlifting is scheduled as a sport in the upcoming 2024 Olympics, but with reduced numbers of athletes and events. IWF traces its history to the formation of the "Amateur-Athleten-Weltunion" (Amateur Athletes World Union) in 1905. History The IWF's predecessor organization, the "Amateur-Athleten-Weltunion" (Amateur Athletes World Union) was founded in 1905. This organization governed both weightlifting and wrestling. In 1912 this became the "Internationaler Weltverband für Schwerathletik" (International Federation of Heavy Athletics), adding "Amateur" in 1913 to become the "Internationaler Amateur-Weltverband für Schwerathletik." In 1920, the federation split into separate organizations for weightlifting and wrestling, creating the Fédération Internationale des Luttes Amateur (International Federation of Weights and Dumbbells) for weightlifters, which swiftly became the Fédération Haltérophile International (FHI). In 1972, the Federation officially changed to the English version of this name by which it is now known—the International Weightlifting Federation. Competitions World Weightlifting Championships Junior World Weightlifting Championships Youth World Weightlifting Championships IWF World Cup IWF Grand Prix Other awards IWF World Weightlifter of the Year Corruption, governance and doping scandals In 2020 an investigative television program, broadcast on German TV network ARD, exposed doping and corruption scandals within the sport. A subsequent investigation into the IWF, found that doping – an historic problem within the sport – was exacerbated by systematic governance failures, corruption, and doping cover-ups at the highest level of IWF; with Tamás Aján, president of IWF from 2000 to 2020, being found guilty by the Court of Arbitration for Sport of charges relating to tampering, fraudulent conduct and complicity in covering-up years of doping cases. Citing endemic corruption in IWF, and widespread doping issues, the International Olympic Committe (IOC) has threatened to drop weightlifting entirely from the Olympics unless substantial reforms are made to the sport. Consequently, as of