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OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

IUKL

The International Union of Kettlebell Lifting (IUKL), is an international association which brings together around 40 national federations of kettlebell sport worldwide.

Kettlebell lifting is a weightlifting sport practiced with kettlebells of fixed weights (24 kg for women and 32 kg for men) and each sport consists of a maximum number of lifts in a fixed time. The development of the sport came from Eastern Europe.

History

The European Union of Kettlebell Lifting (EUWL) was created in 1992 from five Eastern European countries: Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The headquarters of the organisation is based in the town of Talsi, in Latvia. The EUWL became the first official international organisation in the field of kettlebell lifting, with the idea of developing a European movement. Three European championships were organised with the participation of four countries in 2002.In May 2006, in Riga, Latvia, an extraordinary congress took place to decide to accept a number of new members to the European Union – Latvia and Moldova.In August 2007, the decision was made to make the movement international and to become the International Union of Kettlebell Lifting. Since 2008, due to its new status, IUKL organises the World Championships.In September 2009, at the General Assembly of TAFISA, the IUKL became a member. The organisation has had observer status at the Global Association of International Sports Federations since October 2017.

Official Website: www.giri-iukl.com

WKSF

WORLD KETTLEBELL SPORT FEDERATION is a non-profit organization founded on 15th October 2017 in Greece (Loutraki) after joining more than 21 countries representatives and officially on 22nd November 2017 in Italy (Milan). By the hand of Mr. Oleh Ilika the Sport has been being promoted around the world on last 20 years and last years the necessary of new rules, transparency, looking to all countries as equal, looking to our sport with only one vision – From All to All – the demanding of new countries, new athletes, new coaches, new sponsors and the new age of modern Kettlebell Sport.

The WKSF aims at the growth of Kettlebell Sport around world. Throw important competitions, wants to join countries under one color. On his heart, there are athletes and passion for this tough sport.

Mission

WKSF is a non-political and non-profit organizations. The Federation aims to promote the use of Kettlebells and disseminate sport activities related to Kettlebell Lifting and Sport disciplines as a psycho-physical and moral training, through the management of any form of competitive, recreation, or any other type of motor activity.

Vision

WKSF aims to promote Kettlebell Sport all over to World, with partners, individual persons, athletes, coaches, delegates, members and together make the Kettlebell accessible everyone. Together, we work hard to bring great events as Championships and support our members to develope in boarders each competition as a way of promotion of our sport.

Values

WKSF has as moral foundation an organization promoting the sport and use of Kettlebells “For All & To All”, without boarders and any kind of recrimination, as cultural, racial or physical.

Official Website: www.wksf.site

IKMF

DISCOVER IKMF AND THESE ASSOCIATED DISCIPLINES

The kettlebell marathon is one of the origins of kettlebell sport.

– Until 2010, it was considered more of a personal challenge than a competitive sport.

Today the popularity of kettlebell marathons is increasing around the world, and the IKMF is leading the way in standardizing rules and promoting competitions.

– Since 2020, IKMF has been open to other disciplines such as IKMF games (created by Stéphane Dauvergne, IKMF founder and president) and pentathlon (created by Valéry Fedorenko) in order to reach out a wider audience.

Now IKMF can be proposed competition from children (7 years) to senior (>70 years).

– Since 2021 due to the large number of events in competition IKMF has decided to divide its world championship into 2 parts:

– First part in April: IKMF games (40kg only) + Kettlebell half marathon (30 minutes) + pentathlon 1 kettlebell (classic)

– Second part in November: IKMF games (only with 2 kettlebells) + Marathon kettlebell (60 minutes) + Pentathlon 2 kettlebell

– From 2023.

IKMF will award a belt (boxing or wrestling type belt) to the country that has won the most medals in the general team classification.

A cash prize will be offered, to the best in their category of body weight, movement, age and sex. During a draw which will be carried out the day before the competition, during the opening ceremony.

IKO/KSWL

KETTLEBELL SPORT WORLD LEAGUE is a World Wide Kettlebell Sport Competition Series established in 2017.

IN 2019 YEAR

3,000 athletes from 200 Kettlebell Clubs and 40 Countries have participated in 27 events within the Kettlebell Sport World League 2019.

Kettlebell Sport World League is a reflection of the growth of Kettlebell Sport in the World wide athletic spectrum; the number of athletes and the number of Kettlebell Sport Clubs are growing constantly every year!

We are here to show the World how many kettlebell lifters are in the World, how many Kettlebell Clubs exist, where they are, how to join them, and how to take part in the community and the invaluable experience of the competitions.

For advanced athletes the information about Records and all of the competitions results for each exercise and division of Kettlebell Sport are meticulously recorded and tracked to push us all to exceed our limits.

Kettlebell World league focuses on making our sport complete, easy to understand, follow, and evolve.

The main mission of the Kettlebell Sport World League is promoting kettlebell clubs and athletes and building a strong, friendly, and respectable relationships among them. We aim to help all clubs coordinate competition dates from crossing over, and any other issues to find all possible solutions for any misunderstandings.

We strive to follow our manifesto!

Official Website: https://www.kettlebellworld.org/

WAKSC

WAKSC is a first community of sport clubs and organizations who practice kettlebell sport as their professional occupation

On WAKSC.com you can find all information you need to know about Association activities (you can find it on “WAKSC” page) as well as latest news of kettlebell world. Just visit the “News” page.

In general WAKSC is an association of clubs spreading kettlebell sport all over the world. The “Clubs” page is an always growing in numbers list of kettlebell sport clubs. Interactive map will let you find a nearest kettlebell club in every city in any country (if such club exists in wanted location). And for sure, you can add your club in database.

Take your time to check out the “Grand Prix” page as it is focused on the most important WAKSC project of grand prix series all over the world. The Grand Prix series is a brand new type of competition which allows teams from different countries and clubs to compete each other.

Grand Prix is the first tourment series in kettlebell sport where sportsmen and clubs from all over the world compete with each other. Winners and medalists of Grand Prix are defined according to the final yearly rating of sportsmen and clubs.