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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Louis Martin, BWLA President, is impressed by the WCL High Performance Centre
Louis Martin, this week, visited the WCL High Performance Centre in Leeds. This was a great opportunity for the WCL staff to ask Louis what he did in training and his experiences of lifting in three Olympics (1960,1964,1968). The WCL Centre got a seal of approval from Louis who stated “I wish I was a young lifter now, I really struggled working full time and then spending almost 3 hours in the gym most evenings. I would have loved the opportunity to get financial support and to be able to train out of a High Performance Centre. The WCL HPC is one of the best facilities I have ever seen”. Louis also had the opportunity to spend some time in the gym with WCL Head coach Tamas Feher and WCL squad athlete Natasha Perdue. Louis competed in the past with Natasha’s father, Terry Perdue who was a renowned Welsh lifter and a fellow member of the Great Britain team for the 1968 Olympics . “It was really special to have Louis come into my training session tonight, he was such a great lifter and it was nice he had some good stories about my father. This has really motivated me to to lift well in the European Championships, which are in five weeks. I can then focus on the Commonwealth Games in Delhi and then to go on to make the Great Britain team for London.”
As BWLA President, Louis has pledged his support of the WCL Programme and is pleased to see WCL and BWLA sharing office space and administration staff.
Full details of Louis’s weightlifting achievements can be found here. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 05 March 2010 14:33 |
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Great Britain Team for European Championships
Congratulations to the following lifters who have been selected for the European Championships in Minsk, Belarus, from the 4th-12th April 2010. This is a significantly larger team than was sent to the Europeans in 2009 when only one athlete lifted and is an indication of the improvements being made by these athletes in the last year.
Joanne Calvino (53kg) ENG Crystal Palace Keith Morgan
Helen Jewell (58kg) ENG Ivy Bridge Michaela Breeze / Tamas Feher
Natasha Perdue (69kg) WAL Tamas Feher
Gareth Evans (62kg) WAL Anglesey Ray Williams
Peter Kirkbride (94kg) SCO Kilmarnock Charles Hamilton
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 March 2010 08:29 |
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Wed 10th March
Deadline for applications to WCL programmes for 2010-11
With the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games and 2014 Commonwealth Games approaching it is an exciting time for performance-focused athletes.
World Class Lifting have recently reviewed the support provided to athletes on both the Olympic weightlifting and Paralympic powerlifting programmes and from March 2010 ALL athletes wishing to be supported by WCL must make a formal application to be included on the Programme and to receive support via one of the three options.
The attached document sets out the support options available to athletes, who meet the WCL performance standards, to help them fulfil their potential.
The support programmes will fall into three clearly defined options
Please click here to go to the Athlete Support Programmes 2010-12 document for full information on the options and the application process.
Completed applications must be submitted to the Performance Manager by 5.00pm. Wed 10th March 2010.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 March 2010 09:26 |
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PBs for WCL Squad Athletes
With the English Championships the first major event on the calendar in 2010, it was a great opportunity for lifters to put themselves in contention for the England Commonwealth Games Team, and to stake a claim for the Great Britain Team for the European Seniors and European Union (U23) Championships in April.and the European Youths in May 2010.
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Last Updated on Monday, 22 February 2010 14:48 |
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