World Class Lifting is a subsidiary company of The British Weight Lifters' Assosciation that has been set up to run the World Class P  erformance Programme for the sport of weightlifting and Disability Powerlifting in Great Britain. The focus of the programme is to deliver two medals at the Paralympics in powerlifting in London 2012 and for weightlifting the focus is on preparing competitive teams for the London 2012 Olympics. World Class Lifting works very closely with the  British Weight Lifters’s Association to ensure that both organisations are coordinated to ensure the success of weightlifting and disability powerlifting in Great Britain on the international stage. World Class Lifting is fully funded by UK sport and there are very clear trigger points (things that WCL needs to put in place or do) to ensure the continued release of the funding. Further information on UK Sport World Class Pathway can be found at http://www.uksport.gov.uk/pages/world_class_pathway. If you find any errors or missing links in these pages or you think there is information missing from the site please let us know by clicking
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IPC UK Invitational Cardiff 23rd January
On Saturday one of the main events on the British Paralympic Powerlifting calendar will take place at the Welsh Institute of Sport, Cardiff. The WCL athletes (Anthony Peddle, Martin Tweedie, Roxanne Lucock, Adam Alderman) spent last weekend on a preparation camp in Leeds where they worked with the WCL Coaches on their warm-up and opening weights, they also worked with Brian Cunniffe, the WCL Performance scientist on their hydration strategies. Anthony Peddle and Natalie Blake will be looking to retain their overall titles across weight categories on AH formula.
With the new IPC Licensing scheme now in place this will be the first opportunity in 2010 for athletes to post a lift on the Paralympic Powerlifting World Ranking list, which will be used for selection for London 2012. For full details on the IPC qualification criteria for London 2012 can be found here.
The competition starts at 11.00am. on Saturday, with athlete weigh in at 9.00 am.
 
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:36 |
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Positions of Office Manager and Finance Officer
The British Weight Lifters' Association (BWLA) in conjunction with World Class Lifting (WCL) are looking to appoint a part-time Office Manager and a part-time Finance Officer based out of the BWLA / WCL Office, at the HPC in Leeds. These are both key positions in both organisations and there is the option of combining both posts to give a fulltime position for someone with the appropriate experience and skills. These vacancies have arisen from the current full time Office Manager moving on.
Full details and a job description for the Office Manager and Finance Officer positions can be obtained by
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Perdue represents Great Britain at World Championships
Natasha Perdue, in her first major championships for Great Britain, was the only athlete to travel to Goyang, to compete at the World Championships. Feeling the pressure of needing to post a result for the Great Britain team she started nervously, narrowly missing her first lift of 86kg in the snatch, coming out for her 2nd lift at the same weight she got it easily , her 3rd lift of 90kg she did lifted but unfortunately dropped behind.
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Last Updated on Friday, 11 December 2009 16:02 |
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UK Sport confirm funding for Powerlifting & Weightlifting
World Class Programmes through to London 2012
UK Sport today announced the outcome of their review of the funding for Olympic and Paralympic sports. Powerlifting’s funding of c£1.1 million for the four year cycle 2009-13 has now been confirmed, previously the funding for the last two years was only provisional. Weightlifting’s funding award has effectively been doubled from £680,023 to £1,360,157.
Commenting WCL chair Jonathan Fuller said, “This is excellent news for all involved with World Class Lifting. It removes the uncertainty over the funding of our programmes for the last two years of this Olympic / Paralympic cycle that has existed since UK Sport announced the original funding levels back in January of this year. At that time the weightlifting’s funding award of £680k for the 4 year period, 2009-2013, was a significant reduction from the £1.4 million that weightlifting had received over the previous 3 years. In order to be able to run an appropriate world class programme the WCL Board took the decision to receive that £680k upfront over the first two years. The aim was to clearly demonstrate that a successful programme could be operated given sufficient funding. Thanks to the effort of our athletes, coaches and staff, that decision has now been vindicated and we are now in a position to action our Strategic Plan through to London 2012.”
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 December 2009 16:07 |
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Kilmarnock Weightlifting Club Shine at Scottish Weightlifting Championships
The Scottish Championships were held on 28th November in at Pitlochry there, were 25 lifters who qualified and of these Kilmarnock fielded almost half with a total of 11lifters, 4 female and 7 male. In the women’s events Kilmarnock and the Palace of Arts Club went head to head, in the women’s 48kg Stephanie McDiamarid (PoA) was first with a total of 78kg. In the 53kg class Collete Will (PoA) was first with 95kg total and Connie England (Kil) was second with 80kg, Kilmarnock’s 14year old Jenna Gilroy lifted well at 63kg to total 95kg, this class was won by Amy Hamilton with a 140kg total. In the 75kg class Georgi Black (Kil) was first with a total of 157kg. The best female lifter on the day on Sinclair points was Amy Hamilton with Georgi Black in second.
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 November 2009 13:09 |
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