GB Lifters off to good start. 

At the first ever World Youth Championships  which are currently being held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Dylan Scott lifted very well to set 3 PB's and finish 26^th in the 56kg Category.  He recorded 6 good lifts of  75kg, 80kg, and 84kg in the snatch and 95kg, 100kg and a 102kg in the Clean and Jerk to give a total of 186kg.  His final lifts in snatch and clean and jerk, and his total are all new British and Scottish U16 Records and put 7kg on to his own best.   The rest of the team are in action later in the week with Zoe Smith lifting on Friday and Joshua Farghally on Saturday.

Full results can be found here on the IWF website, go to results, latest results and click on 1st Youth World Championships.

There is also a live scoreboard running which is a new initiative from the IWF.  With the competition time 6 hours in advance of the UK  , then Smith is scheduled to  lift on 22/05/09 at 17:00 (11:00 UK) and Farghally on 23/11/09 at 11:00 (05:00 UK)