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Great Britain Youth Team for European Youth Championships
Congratulations to the following lifters who have been selected for the European Youth Championships in Eilat, Israel from the 6th-13th September 2009. This is a significantly larger team that was sent to the European Youths in 2008. This is an indication of the hard work that both these athletes and their personal coaches have put in over the last year.
Name Wt Cat. Club Coach
Hannah Powell* 44 Oldbury CS Sam Hayer
Zoe Smith* 58 Europa Andrew Callard
Dylan Scott* 56 Kilwinning Bill Despard
Shamsar Shergill * 56 Oldbury CS Rupinder Shergill
Craig Carfray* 62 Kilmarnock Charles Hamilton
Michael Sheard 69 Shrewsbury David English
Sonny Webster 69 Ivybridge Michaela Breeze
Dale Cree 77 Kilmarnock Charles Hamilton
Joshua Farghally * 85 West Wythenshaw Les Green
* All these lifters had lifted the qualification standard during the qualification period and were automatically selected.
Michael Sheard was 2kg off the 69kg Wt Cat. in May and has put 12kg on his total since then with a body weight of 71.4kg, while still 5kg off the 77kg total the selectors decided that it was in his best longterm interests to lift @ 77kg rather than come down to 69kg.
Dale Cree was 1kg of the selection total and the selctors felt that as he is making good progress he justified selection.
Sonny Webster has now fully recovered from a back injury which kept him out of training for several months, and this meant that he was unable to be in the required shape by Fulda where he lifted 192kg. He has lifted a total of 204kg in a training test (2kg) above the selection standard.
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