Perdue smashes PB

The British Weightlifting Championships was the first opportunity for a while for the senior lifters on the World Class Lifting Programme to demonstrate that they are making the progress required to continue to remain on the programme.  (A requirement of being on the World Class programme is to increase performance towards agreed targets, this means that even though someone may be the best in Britain in their weight category unless they continue to improve they will not remain on the programme).

Hannah Powell (48kg) improved her snatch PB by 1kg, as did Joanne Calvino (53kg).   Natasha Perdue who has made significant improvements in training and has been frustrated that this has not shown in recent competitions stepped up to the mark in this competition putting 8kg on her PB to record a 200kg total @ 69kg.  Michaela Breeze showed that she has fully recovered from the injuries that plagued her in 2008 posting a 209kg total, and was best lifter on Sinclair points.

In the men's event Graeme Kane put 1kg onto his PB (266kg @ 77kg) finishing second to Halil Zorba who took the British title at 77kg when he equaled Kane's  total but was at a lighter body weight, it was good to see Zorba lifting well after his injury at the same event in 2008.  In the 94kg category, Peter Kirkbride was slightly under par but still came away with the British title from Denis Catana on body weight, with a total of 316kg, and best lifter overall on Sinclair points.

Full results can be found on the BWLA website by clicking here.