The three athletes from the World Class Lifting talent confirmation squad, Roxanne Lucock, Robert Truscott and Martin Tweedie, performed very well  at the Breda Games in Holland . In particular Roxanne Luckock who was nominated 'best lifter' in the competition and finished first overall in the female category, this is a fantastic achievement for the athlete as it was her first international competition.  Martin Tweedie finished an overall third in the men's 82.5kg to 90kg, with three succesful lifts and achieving a PB lift of 130kg. Also in the same category Robert Truscott lifted a total of 120kg to place him fourth.

At the Breda Games the above athletes competed  against athletes from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the United Arab Emirates.

 For the full results of the competition please click here.

WCL becomes a subsidiary of BWLA

World Class Lifting (“WCL”) this week completed the move to become a wholly owned subsidiary of lifting’s national governing body, the British Weight Lifters’ Association (“BWLA”).  Late in 2006, WCL was established to develop and deliver a world class programme for Olympic Weightlifting in the build up to the games in Beijing 2008 and London 2012.  In April 2008, WCL also took on responsibility for the Paralympic Power Lifting’s world class programme.

Commenting WCL Chair Jonathan Fuller said, “I am delighted that the two organisations have now officially come together.  WCL was established with the clear target of maximizing British lifting success at Olympic and Paralympic Games and major World and European championships, but could never achieve this in isolation.  WCL is dependent upon BWLA increasing the number of participants and clubs and raising the profile of the sports.