European & World Lifting events this week.

Zoe Smith (58kg) and Ben Watson (94kg) both lift on Thursday at the European Junior Weightlifting Championships, Landskrona.  Watson lifts first at 10:00 am. and Smith 2nd at 12:00.  For both these athletes it will be the first time they have competed at this standard of competition, and both will be looking to gain valuable experience as they look towards London 2012.

Live results are to be posted on this website, and more details regarding start lists and timetables can be found here.

World Class Powerlifting Squad members Adam Alderman (seen here on the bench), Kyron Duke and Roxanne Lucock will all be in action this Friday in Belfast at the World Dwarf Games, where they are all on target to improve their current best totals.  Both Lucock and Duke spent time at the WCL High Performance Centre in Leeds, this week, with Nicola Vaughn-Ellis, the WCL Lead Performance Coach, working on technical points in preparation for this weeks event.   Vaughn-Ellis will be coaching these athletes in Belfast and was pleased with the progress they made while they were in Leeds.

Further information on the World Dwarf Games can be found here.