EWF training Camp & Seminar

EWF South Europe Training Camp & Scientific Seminar in Berlin is over Malta weightlifting Association send two coaches, Michael Fava and Owen Camilleri to improve their coaching skills.

EWF Second Training Camp and Seminar in 2017 is organized in Berlin Olympic Training Centre. Total sixty-four delegates attended the training camp from fourteen EWF Member Federations.
German Weightlifting Federation welcomed 34 athletes and 22 coaches and 8 officials.
Fourteen national federations attended the training camp as AUT, BEL, CRO, ESP, GER, GRE, HUN, IRL, ISR, LAT, MLT, SMR, TUR, UKR.

EWF Officials were:
Dr. Hasan AKKUS -EWF General Secretary
Colin Buckley -EWF CRS Committee Chairman
Eduards Andruskevics –EWF CRS Committee Member
Tom Goegebuer -EWF CRS Committee Member

German WF officials were:
Christian Baumgartner-President of German WF
Frank Mantek -Sport Director
Michael Vater -Federal Coach
Jochen Stüber – Federal Coach
Jan Patzke – Federal Coach
Marc Huster – Federal Coach
Heike Winchenbach -Office Manager of German WF
Dr. Jürgen Lippmann- Scientist
In the weightlifting training, German WF Scientists Dr. Jürgen Lippmann and Jan Patzke Introduce biomechanical analysis system which is developed by German WF.
Each lift analyses real time in training hall.

Seminar titles were:
Coach Program & “I coach Kids EU Program” by Colin Buckley
German Athletic School by Jochen Stüber
Anti-Doping On-Line Education Program by Colin Buckley
Video Analysis German System Dr. Jürgen Lippmann
Doping prevention in Weightlifting NADA Thomas Berghoff
EWF Electronic Media Hasan Akkus

In addition, President of German WF Mr Christian Baumgartner organized round table for discussion on actual problems of world weightlifting.
Round table participants were:
Dr. Christian Baumgartner -President of German WF
Frank Mantek -Sport Director
Marc Huster -Coach- Media Eurosport
Ron Ringuth -Media Eurosport
Michael Vater -National coach
Heike Winchenbach -Administrative
Eric Schneidenbach -Marketing
Dr. Hasan AKKUS -EWF General Secretary
Colin Buckley -EWF CRS Committee Chairman
Tom Goegebuer -EWF CRS Member

EWF would like to thank the German Weightlifting Federation for great hospitality and successful organization and special thanks to Michael Vater and his team, they pay special attention to delegates every time during training camp.
In addition, EWF thanks IWF for supporting the training camp and seminar.