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Sport | Kettlebell |
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Membership | 63 countries |
Abbreviation | IUKL |
Founded | August 2007 |
Headquarters | Talsi, Latvia |
President | Igor Solodov |
Official website | |
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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.