The announcement of the British squad for the 2019 World Championships has confirmed a rumour that Zoe Smith is planning a move from the -64 to the -59 category. Smith, an Olympian at the 2012 Games and 2014 Commonwealth gold medalist, has competed at 64 kg so far in the qualification period for the Tokyo …
The release of the provisional start list for the Birdseye British International Open has revealed that some big names are perhaps going to be making the trip to compete in Coventry. The British International Open will take place from 7th to 9th June, alongside the British Championships. It is a bronze-level Olympic qualification competition (see …
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British-resident weightlifter Cyrille Tchatchet II, originally from Cameroon has talked to the BBC about how he came to the UK and his plans to compete at the 2020 Olympics. Tchatchet has become a regular feature at local and national-level competitions in the UK, putting up some impressive lifts. He recently went 160/200 as a -102 …
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British Weightlifting will send a team of ten women and six men to the 2019 European Weightlifting Championships in Batumi, Georgia in April. W45 – Hannah Powell Hannah won the 2019 England Championships with a 140 total but her best-ever total of 152 came back in 2016, at the European Championships. https://www.instagram.com/hannahpowell48/ Hannah lifted in …
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Team USA will bring several athletes over to the UK in June for the British International Open, a bronze-level Olympic qualifier. The competition runs from 7th to 9th June 2019 and is being run in conjunction with the British Championships. As a bronze-level event, competitors will earn Robi points towards Olympic qualification. See our Olympic …
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Before we start, here is a link to all things European Championships (start list, schedule…) and here is our Tokyo 2020 Qualifying Guide This article will go over all of the women competing at the European Championships who are yet to total and so MUST total at the European Championships or else their Olympic dreams …
The full judgement of UK Anti-Doping that led to Sonny Webster’s four-year ban being extended by three additional years has been published. UKAD ruled that Webster had breached the Prohibited Association rule by coaching three athletes who were registered with British Weightlifting. The coaching is described in the judgement as a mixture of online programming, …
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To view the start list for the Las Vegas International Open click here The Las Vegas International open takes place this weekend: March 7th – 10th. We will post the results from the open on this page, needling them out from within the additional USAW meets that are running both alongside and in conjunction with …
Stay up to date with results here Hidden among the entries for the USA National University and Under 25 Championships are the entries for the Las Vegas International Open, a bronze-level Olympic qualification event (credit to Reddit user u/CaveatLector for pointing this out). As you would expect, there are a lot of USA lifters (45) …
British Olympian Sonny Webster, already banned from weightlifting for four years in 2017, has been notified that he has received a new three-year ban, which will be added to the original. According to Webster’s Instagram post, the new ban is as a result of “members of British weightlifting following my online generic weightlifting program and …