The Junior Weightlifting Championship is expected to bring in $11 million worth of economic activity.
Oceania National Olympic Committee president Dr Robin Mitchell says that economically there’s a huge benefit to the country.
Dr Mitchell says that it is very hard to measure the exposure that Fiji will be getting from this event.
Weightlifting Fiji President, Atma Maharaj says the total economic benefit of the Championship will be huge.
That was on the basis of the normal entries that they had received for the world championship and discounted a little bit because we thought that we are too far from everybody. But this is shaping to be the biggest championship ever, so once the Championship finishes, we will prepare an economic, the economic benefits analysis and we will be presenting it to the government as part of our exercise.
The Junior Weightlifting Championship starts today at the FMF Gymnasium and end next Saturday.
