Weightlifting: Inter-Club tourney April 16

About 40 young weightlifters, representing various clubs across the country, will on April 16  assemble at the national weightlifting training centre of the Accra Sports Stadium to compete in the maiden Indomie Youth and Junior Inter-club Weightlifting competition.

The clubs include A1 Weightlifting Club, the Accra Titans Weightlifting Club, Purejoy Weightlifting club and the Migrants Weightlifting Club.

The Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF), as part of its development programme, began training youth and junior lifters between the ages of eight and 17 years at the national weightlifting training centre to groom them to step into the shoes of the older lifters.

The programme, which was officially launched in January this year with DeUnited Foods, importers of Indomie noodles, as headline sponsors, will be preceded by a float through some selected streets of the nation’s capital.

The National Coordinator of the GWF Youth and Junior Development Programme, Ken Adade, told the Graphic Sports that the competition would also serve as grounds for talent identification for the technical committee of the GWF.

Indomie, has as part of its sponsdorship pacakage for the youth and development programme, agreed to support the GWF with an annual sponsorship of GH₵20,000 and GH₵10,000 worth of products.