Dear Friends of the Powerlifting sport,

The use of new technology to enable fast and efficient communication worldwide, through the internet and email, is becoming more and more important. Particularly for a fast growing international sport federation like ours it is very useful to use these facilities productively.

So, with these few words, it is my pleasure to introduce you to the new website of the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF).

Powerlifting is an exciting, vibrant sport which is accessible to those of almost every age, gender and physical capacity. It is practiced in all of the continents and has many hundreds of thousands of individual adherents or athletes, coaches and officials worldwide. The underpinning of Powerlifting is in the gymnasiums of the world and this base level of participation provides an inexhaustible wellspring of or our competitive sport.

I wish you an enjoyable and informative visit to our website and hope that you will find what you are looking for. If not, perhaps look for the homepages of the different National Powerlifting Federations or the Regional Federations in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America.

Best wishes and regards

Detlev Albrings
IPF President