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Powerlifting European IPC Powerlifting 2009 Championships cancelled.

The IPC 2009 European Championships which were provisionally to be held in November have been cancelled. The IPC now hope to stage a European Championships early in 2010. For press release from IPC please click here.

The members of the WCL squad who would have been selected for the Great Britain Team for the European Championships in 2009 will now compete in the Silver Bar in Poland in early November.

For full details of how the Great Britain powerlifting teams and WCL Squads are selected please click here

Last Updated on Monday, 21 September 2009 15:38

Team for European U23 Championships named

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been selected to represent Great Britain at the inaugural European U23 Championships in Wtadystawow from the 11th-18th August

Athlete, weight cat, club, personal coach

Helen Jewell (58kg) Ivybridge Michaela Breeze

Peter Kirkbride (94kg) Kilmarnock Charlie Hamilton

Both athletes fully met the selection criteria and were automatically selected.

Last Updated on Monday, 21 September 2009 15:16

Assessment event for WCL powerlifting squad

WCL held an internal competition at the WCL High Performance Centre in Leeds on Sunday 13th September to assess the lifters progress since the British Championships in early June. Lifters who recorded personal bests were Martin Tweedie, Kyron Duke and Roxanne Lucock. Robert Truscott who is hoping to be included in the WCL squad from September lifted 127.5kg in his first event under IPC powerlifting rules. Anthony Peddle continues to make good progress back towards his best lifting a season's best of 145kg. This competition was also an opportunity for the new loaders and assistant coaches working with the WCL powerlifting squad to gain valuable competition experience. Thanks to Donna Charlton-O'Malley, Patrick Charlton-O'Malley and David Ellend for refereeing.

For full results click here

Last Updated on Monday, 21 September 2009 13:20

Day 3 European Youth Championships

Dale Cree and Michael Sheard started the day off in the men’s 77B group, both lifting in their first major international. Sheard was the first of the British out on the platform and just held his first snatch of 90kg. He then missed his next lift of 95kg but held it on his 3rd attempt. Cree got his first lifts of 95kg and 98kg but was unable to complete his PB attempt of 101kg with his 3rd lift in the snatch. In the Clean & Jerks both athletes finished with successful 3rd attempts of 120kg and in both cases a new PB.

Zoe Smith was next out, in what was one of the tightest groups of the competition, with any one of 7 athletes capable of medalling. Smith never got under her first attempt of 73kg, so then had to come out at the same weight for her second attempt which she held. Playing the board she went to 77kg to try and stay in mix for the medals, unfortunately this attempt was unsuccessful. With the C&J her stronger lift she opened on 90kg, then lifted 93kg with her second attempt, again looking for a medal she went to 96kg which she was unable to hold. She finished 5th overall on the day, but knows that with more consistency she is capable of competing with the girls ahead of her in the future.

Full results can be found here

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:25

New PB by WCL Squad member Ben Watson helps St Birnus to victory

On Saturday 12/9 St Birinus School Weightlifting club took part in an International Club Tournament in Sokolov - Czech Repbublic.
There were 11 teams taking part from Germany and the Czech Republic with each team fieldinf 5 lifters.
The team:
Josh Cox (15) snatch 71 clean &jerk 90 both PBs
Eddie Chambers (17) 77/95 both PBs
Ben Watson (19) 120/151 PB jerk
Robert Green (17) 83/104 both PBs
Peter Dutton (19) 96/100 - Peter was injured but still managed these lifts to secure the win in the process beating top German side Chemnizer AC t take the overall competition title.
Ben Watson and Eddie Chambers both won the best lifter award for their age groups.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 September 2009 14:24

PBs at European Youth Championships for the British Lifters

Day 1

In Clean & Jerk in the 56kg class, Dylan Scott, showed true grit to get up out of the clean and jerk with a lift of 105kg to add 3kg to his own British & Scottish Youth record. However Scott’s snatch was disappointing, easily getting 80kg as his opener but then losing 85kg behind on his second attempt, over correcting for this in his 3rd attempt he missed 85kg in front. Also in the 56kg class, Shamsher Shergill in his first major International Championships, got all 3 snatches with a best of 70kg, he then got his first C&J of 95kg, but missed his next 2 attempts of 100kg.

Hannah Powell started confidently in the 44kg class, opening on her PB of 48kg and then holding 51kg in her 2nd attempt. She was very close to getting 52kg with her 3rd attempt. Then in the C&J she opened on a new personal best, cleaning it easily she caught her chin on the way up with the bar and despite finishing the jerk she could not hold it. With only four lifters in the class, Powell was forced to follow herself so had little time to recover from the knock she had taken in her first lift and despite jerking her next two attempts could not hold them. Bitter disappointment for an athlete who has worked hard over the summer and was capable of so much more on the day.

Day 2

Craig Carfray started shakily missing his first snatch of 83kg; however there was then no stopping him, with good snatches of 83kg and 87kg, and Clean & Jerks of 107kg, 112kg and 115kg to improve his total PB by 6kg. Carfray finished a very creditable 8th overall in the 62kg category, and is another in the line of Scottish athletes to come out of the Kilmarnock Weightlifting Club coached by Charlie Hamilton

Next out was Sonny Webster. Webster has just recovered to full fitness following an injury which kept him out of much of 2008 and the early part of 2009. He got his first snatch of 92 kg, and then missed 95kg behind twice, just failing to hold them. Webster then came out and comfortably clean & jerked 110kg, he then went to 114kg, just got out of the clean and jerked it easily. With that in mind he raised the bar to 115kg, his clean was much stronger and he then jerked the weight easily. A very confident performance from an athlete who has had improved his competition PB by 15kg and has shown the patience to fully rehab from his injury. As the competition progressed Webster got stronger and could easily have opened with his final C&J.