Oceania Championships and Beyond
After the succcess of the multi-venue Pacific invitational run simultaneously across seven locations in July, World Powerlifting is moving on with more major events for 2020 to 2021. We all remain subject to travel and health regulations, so there has been some re-scheduling. Firstly, the open Oceania Championships will now move to Cambridge, New Zealand …
Wilks Formula 2 Released
The legendary WIlks Formula, the benchmark for determining relative Powerlifting performance, has been updated for 2020 onwards. New data has allowed for a rebalancing of coefficients, with Men’s and Women’s performances better aligned and the extreme bodyweight classes brought into better balance with the middle bodyweight classes. Wilks Formula 2 will stand the test of …
Asia Pacific Championships Unfold in Hong Kong
All was peaceful at the Ibis Sheung Wan for the 2019 Asia Pacific Championships, with 130 lifters taking the stage in Powerlifting and Bench Press. The new Hong Kong Powerlifting Federation, already the dominant force in the SAR, presented the Regions best over three days of action in front of a full house. In the …
Pacific Invitational, Fitness Show Melbourne
Once again, big crowds at FIBO for Powerlifting’s stars, this time in Melbourne, Australia. Two feature sessions saw age group World Records fall at both ends of the spectrum. 57 years has not aged Femmy Ayegun, with great records in the Womens 53kg 55-59 years class, being 113/73/162/348. More of the same came from Masters …
WORLD POWERLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS, CALGARY, CANADA
World Powerlifting’s 2019 World Championships weathered the storm of visa rejections blocking out nearly half the field to come through with a quality meet in the upscale venue of Calgary’s Winsport Olympic Centre. Australia took out the team title over home nation Canada and provided the two Best Lifters, Elizabeth Craven and Tony Reinmuth. In …
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World Powerlifting Tops FIBO China
100+ China and international World Powerlifting competitors were squeezed into just over two days of sensational lifting at the 2019 FIBO China Powerlifting event in Shanghai August 22 – 24. A packed house saw World Records fall and big Samtek equipment prizes go to the Best Lifters and Best Clubs. In the Asia Pacific international …
World Powerlifting Championships Draw Nearer
The biggest event of the 2019 World Powerlifting calendar now has entries open. The World Powerlifting Championships will be held in Canada from October 3 to 6 at the former Olympic venue Winsport Performance Centre in downtown Calgary. All information is available via the Championships information memorandum – or at 2019wpworldchampionships.com Entries are open now, …
World Powerlifting Rulebook Updated
The World Powerlifting Technical Committee has approved the 1st July updated Rules of Competition. The one big rule change is that any Attempt now can be changed, once only, up to the call “bar loaded” for that Attempt; two changes are still allowed on the last Deadlift. Otherwise World Powerlifting’s unique and fair Rules are …
World Records Fall at Fitness Show Sydney
A packed crowd was there for World Powerlifting’s Pacific Challenge at Fitness Show Sydney 2019, the Southern Hemisphere’s largest fitness trade show – and the lifters from six different nations responded with multiple national and World Records. In the Women’s lifting Jess Sewastenko of Australia was the star of the show with a World Record …