In the early 90’s they became licensed technical officials and have since travelled across the globe officiating at numerous international events, Commonwealth Games and Paralympics. His wit, humour and vitality which he kept for a very long time, well into his 80s, made him a popular and beloved figure all around the world. As the programme moved towards weightlifting, In the women’s 55kg GB and England International, Fraer Morrow registered a total of 168kg to walk away with Gold ahead of Jess Gordon Brown who came a close second with a total of 163kg and Jenny Tong of Hallam Barbell finished third. In 1995, he won Gold in the European Championships to supplement the British titles already won as well as several World medals. He missed the next two British Championships due to exam clashes but was selected to represent Great Britain at an international event in Sweden. Injury forced her to retire from competitive powerlifting in 2007. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Found inside... I began to break a whole series of British weightlifting records and I placed third in the British Olympic Weightlifting Championships. After the war, he became General Secretary of the British Amateur Weightlifters Association (BAWLA). Launceston Elliot was Great Britain’s first Olympic Champion in any sport at the inaugural Athens Olympics in 1896. As a result of contacts made at Christchurch, New Zealand, he decided to emigrate to the county country, where he was offered the opportunity to be a weight trainer in a gym. Levy died in 1932 and in 1988, he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He has been involved in the sport for 65 years and opened his first gym at the age of 18 in Newbiggin By Sea. One year later he finished 4th at Atlanta 96. This helped her qualify for the Paralympic Games in London, where she took bronze in the -40kg class. at the Games of the XVII Olympiad. Caira competed in international events around the world. He won Gold in the One-Handed Lift and took Silver in the Two-Handed event. Found inside – Page 105Willy Holland , trainer of the British weightlifting team has categorically stated ... performances had all improved and he beat his own personal record . Megennis was an electrician by trade, and did his national service in the early 1950’s in the physical education branch of the RAF, stationed at RAF Melksham in Wiltshire. He passed away in 1998 at the age of 82. Mike Pearman is a three-times Olympian and two times Commonwealth Medallist who has over 60 years’ experience in the sport as an athlete and coach. Born in 1917, Creus took up weightlifting at the age of 17, after recovering from a rooftop fall that left him with two broken legs. Sir Ben Helfgott is a thee-times Maccabi Games Champion and two-time British Olympic weightlifting Team Captain, who received a Knighthood in 2018 in recognition of his contribution to services to Holocaust remembrance and education. William A. Pullum probably did more to advance weightlifting in Great Britain than any other instructor in history. All three would finish just behind Mercer on 350kg. Caira failed to record a total at the 1966 Commonwealth Games, but finished 10th on his swansong four years later. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn to lift correctly , efficiently and safely at the BPF academy. Callard secured Bronze for England at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games and won Gold four years later. Venue. Found inside – Page 185In fact, the British failed to record a single medal in the boxing, diving, sailing, water polo and weightlifting events. Breaker of nearly 200 official World’s and British Weight-Lifting Records. In 2018, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contribution to services to Holocaust remembrance and education. Myrddin John was General Secretary of Weightlifting Wales from 1966 to 2013. To achieve a qualification total for a Tier 1 or Tier 2 competition the Murray was a Scottish lightweight and middleweight champion as well as a British record holder in the late 1930s. Newton never reached the medal podium at the World or European Championships, but he was conspicuously successful at the Commonwealth Games. Augee’s maiden European Weightlifting title success came in the 1993 European Championships which was held in Valencia Spain. 3 thoughts on “ British rapper breaks women’s weight-lifting records while identifying as female to prove a point ” Sam says: “First of all, the fact that the so-called discovery that men and women are different is a big news item indicates just how far from obvious reality we have drifted in the past decade or so. While there is a temptation to begin this story with Ancient Greecewhen individuals lifted gargantuan weights … The British Weight Lifting BARS system is the online hub for our sport and it’s the place where you can access all of our recent results and rankings information. As the sport was making its Games debut, she became the first British woman to win a Paralympic Powerlifting gold medal. British Masters Competition Schedule British Masters Info COVID-19 Registration for European Masters Registration for IWF World Masters Bulletins British Masters Championships Need to know Entry Forms Results Rankings British Masters Records (old) British Masters Records (new) "The National Championships are the pinnacle for lifters in England but as the as the sport continues to attract a larger and more diverse audience, we remain determined to offer opportunities for lifters of all ages and abilities to achieve their ambitions, whether they aspire to be future Olympians or to enjoy lifting recreationally and become fitter, healthier and stronger individuals as a result.”. In the 1970s and ‘80s, Tony won a total of 38 international medals across various events in a career that saw him become an icon in disability sports. David Mercer was the last British weightlifter to medal at the Olympic Games when he stood on the podium in Los Angeles in 1984. He won Silver at the European Championships in 1935 and the following year he recorded an official snatch World Record of 135kg in the Super-Heavyweight division at an event in London. o Kept records and controlled budgets. During the 1950’s Joseph 'Mel' Barnet medalled at all the major events bar the Olympics, standing on the podium at the European Championships, World Championships & Commonwealth Games. At London 2012 she broke the British clean and jerk record en route to 10th place finish. 7–10 September 1960. As well as Paralympic Weightlifting he also competed in Athletics & Basketball. The London lifter also represented Great Britain in the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Olympics. He also won Silver in 1998 making the only male athlete to medal at six games. 81 were here. He moved up to the Light Heavyweight Division four years later and finished 14th again. Andrew Callard is Commonwealth Games Champion who has coached numerous successful British Weightlifters at International Events. Rowe added another silver to his medal collection when he travelled to Canada four years later for the Toronto Paralympics in 1976. Snatch and clean & jerk results counted for World Medals, so Morgan picked up Bronze in the latter. Gold went to Alfred Dore of the USA. He held World and British Empire records for the snatch in the bantamweight division, and was also the holder of six British records. His great services to his country were rewarded by HM the Queen by the OBE title. Ronald Walker was one of the greatest global weightlifters in the 1930’s, achieving superstardom by setting World & Olympic Snatch records in the Super-Heavyweight division. When he was released in 1946 Halliday weighed just six stone. She won silver with a combined snatch (122kg) and clean & jerk (161kg) total of 283kg in the women’s +87kg category. He returns for the 1962 Games where he won gold for the second time. William Albert Pullum was one of the founding members of British Amateur Weight Lifters Association (BAWLA) in 1911 and acted as one of the first technical officials. He retired from competitive lifting shortly afterwards but stayed connected to the sport by coaching. British University & College Championships, Equation Fitness: British Weight Lifting Talent Academy, British Weight Lifting Statement Regarding the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Coverage, Emily Campbell secures Team GB’s first medal in 37 years with stunning silver. That same year she won her first European Communities Championship, kickstarting a run of four titles in a row. He helped coach the England squad at the 1962 Commonwealth Games and was part of the Great Britain backroom staff for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. That was only until another doctor said that exercise was the best thing for Jim’s health, and he then enjoyed playing football before discovering boxing, gymnastics, wrestling, and then weightlifting. He won Silver at Seoul 88 & Barcelona 92 Olympics. The weekend began with the Male Para Powerlifting competition, which saw fantastic performances from Liam McGarry who claimed gold with a best lift of 164kg and GB International Nathaniel Wilding, who was also crowned English Champion with a best result of 179kg in his weight category. Newton also competed in powerlifting, where he would also help to coach 5-times World Champion Cathy Millen, and in bodybuilding. Female Equipped Records 01-07-21. At the inaugural Olympics Elliot made it to the final of the two-handed lift event and faced off against Denmark's Viggo Jensen. Smith has also twice won overall medals at the European Championships taking Bronze in 2014 & 2019. Individuals had for centuries, developed their bodies, and egos, through lifting weights. David Harfield contributed 50 years of service to British Weightlifting in leadership and financial roles. As well as representing Great Britain, Peddle took part in one Commonwealth Games as part of the England team recording an 11th place finish. Four years later he represented Wales in the -90kg Combined division at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales and finished 6th. Home » Records » State/Regional Records. Just two years after leaving the POW camp, Halliday was captain of the British weightlifting team at the 1948 London Olympics where he won a lightweight bronze medal. Website designed and developed by 93ft in partnership with Sport80. He finished 6th on his Paralympic debut in 1980 and medalled four years later in New York. Two years later, he was the British Empire and Commonwealth Games bantamweight champion, when he was one of four Englishmen to win gold medals on the opening day of the Games (teammate Jim Halliday was another). Peddle took up weightlifting whilst a teenager. The OpenPowerlifting project aims to create a permanent, accurate, convenient, accessible, open archive of the world's powerlifting data. The England Committee is a formal sub-committee of British Weight Lifting and has been established to ensure an integrated approach to the development and growth of the sport in England across all levels and age groups. In his Wales role he served as a coach, manager, and chef de mission, attending 11 Commonwealth and 11 Olympic Games in various capacities before retiring. The image shows Dow competing while Redgwick is among the audience in the front row eagerly soaking in the spectacular showdown. Born in Durban, South Africa, in 1936 McKenzie left the country after they refused to pick him for the Empire Games and Olympics because of the country's apartheid policy. The club has one of the finest track records in the country for producing international standard lifters and medallists at both Commonwealth and … Found inside – Page 171972 2min 23.5sec 1 WEIGHTLIFTING 1 3 . British record 2 Shelagh Ratcliffe 1968 winner 1970 2min 29.5sec 3 Flyweight Viktor Kurentsov ( USSR ) 3 . maximum ... Peppiatt was a member of the Kentish Town Weightlifting Club, one of the leading club’s in Britain at the time, and he eventually became a coach there. It capped off a successful season which saw her clinch Commonwealth Championships Gold in Samoa, win an Arafura Games title in Australia, secure Silver at the European Championships in Georgia and medal at the Tianjin World Cup in China. She has competed at five world championships and five European Senior Championships. He won the Jon Lear Outstanding Contribution award for 2020. Ralph Rowe was Great Britain's first black Paralympian. His extraordinary success was recognised in 1978 by the Sports Journalists' Association. He set an Olympic record of 125kg in the snatch but had to settle 4th overall. Only total medals counted for Olympic Games while Snatch and Clean & Jerk medals were used for the World Weightlifting Championships, so Mercer bagged another Bronze. Legend has it that the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were late for an official engagement at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch because she wanted to watch Precious McKenzie win his third consecutive gold medal in weightlifting. He entered his first Welsh competition in 1981 and won it outright. Found inside – Page 262He captained the British Olympic weightlifting teams of 1956 and 1960. ... three world weightlifting records, and twelve- time U.S. national titleholder. With a record number of spectators and competitors the weekend provided many highlights. He has severed in numerous roles including IPC Para Powerlifting Committee Chairman, Trustee/Director of the British Paralympic Association, The British Wheelchair Sports Federation and The English Federation of Disability Sport. She bounced back a year later at Beersheba, Israel to reclaim the continental crown adding a further 2.5kg to her total. British Weight Lifting is saddened to learn that three-times Commonwealth Games medallist George Manners has passed away at the age of 83. Found inside – Page 304BRITISH WEIGHTLIFTING RECORDS ( in kg ) ..... won four world and European mid - heavyweight titles in 1959 , 1962-3 and 1965. He won an Olympic silver medal ... At Seoul four years later, he finished 8th in the same category. He passed away in 2020 at the age of 90. Breeze won a bronze medal in the 58 kg competition, setting a new Commonwealth Games snatch record and subsequently announced her second retirement. Also in 1954, Megennis competed as a featherweight in the World Championships at Wien and finished ninth. The competitions saw over 36 lifters participate in the Masters Open and over 20 lifters take part in the Development Open with a number of clubs represented which included: Pitolchry Weightlifting Club. He recorded a top-five finish on his Commonwealth debut in 1954, and repeated the position at the Olympics one year later for Great Britain. Augee was also the last British weightlifter to win a World Championship medal until Emily Muskett secured clean and jerk bronze at Pattaya last year. A change in IPC classifications during 2014 meant the London 2012 bronze medallist was temporarily ruled out of the sport. After surviving the Buchenwald concentration camp, he found out that his father had also been shot and killed few days before the end of the war. Redgewick also took part in athletics events in Tokyo as well. He eventually settled in Derby where he started specialising in weightlifting. Willey was born in spina bifida, a deformity of the back. The following are the national records in Olympic weightlifting in Great Britain. Oakes represented England at six Commonwealth Games between 1978-1998 and medalled at every one, winning three Gold, two Silver & one Bronze. Irani was also BWL Board member from 2012-2020. At New York in 1984 McKenzie won a Bronze medal for Great Britain in the 85kg integrated class and he repeated the result four years later in Seoul after moving into the 90kg category. Leading the way was Atlas Weightlifting’s Commonwealth Games bronze medallist and Tokyo Olympics’ hopeful Emily Campbell, who smashed two British records on her way to be crowned English Champion with a snatch lift of 114kg followed by a best Clean & Jerk of 143kg to finish with a total of 257kg in the … Walker represented Great Britain at the 1936 Olympics. All record submissions and enquiries go to : records@britishpowerliftingunion.co.uk. Men. Early in his career while training Pearman worked as a lady’s hair stylist while being trained by GB Head Coach Al Murray. He went on to win lightweight gold medal at the 1954 British Empire Games and the middleweight title four years later. As an athlete he competed as a weightlifter at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. George Newton won Commonwealth gold for England in 1962, 1970 and 1974 and silver in 1966. Smith followed this feat by winning a spectacular gold medal at Glasgow 2014, but surgery on a dislocated shoulder prevented her from making her second Olympics at Rio 2016. He represented England in the -90kg Combined division at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada and won a Bronze medal. NEW, EXCITING MEET SOFTWARE AVAILABLE FOR MEET DIRECTORS!! Levy, was born in London, England in 1851. He lifted the car out of the way, but managed to rupture his bicep in the process. Nearly four years later, aged only 16, Elliot competed in the inaugural British weightlifting championships, held in the International Hall of the Café Monico in west London. The Salford born lifter was able to successfully capitalise on the Eastern bloc boycott to clinch a bronze medal in the 90kg class on American soil. After a couple of years of service, they were invited to join the British Weightlifting Association for the Disabled (BWAD) serving in various administrative capacities. Results from the inaugural British Development and British Masters Open are now available to view. The 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch in New Zealand proved a major turning point in his life as he met and fell in love with the woman he was to marry after leaving London for New Zealand on New Year’s Day 1975. In 1972 Pearman remained at Light-Heavyweight and improved to place 11th in Munich. Between 1891 and 1894, he established 14 world weightlifting records. He was the Commonwealth Games Council Chief 1982-2005 and had also served as IWF Vice President& CWF Vice President. She snatched 57.5kg and then clean & jerked 80kg to finish with a total of 137.5 which secured her 5th position overall in the 56kg class. He has attended 8 Olympic and Commonwealth Games with British and Home Nations' squads and was selected as the IOC Medial liaison for the Rio Olympics. Competitors. Thomson managed UK and Scottish teams and was chief technical officer for the British Weight Lifters Association. Domestically they have been an integral pillar for para powerlifting by assisting BWL events at all levels across the country and the sport would not be in the place it is today without their hard work and dedication. Found inside – Page 413He captained Britain's Olympic weightlifting team in 1956 and 1960, set British lightweight lifting records, won a bronze medal at the Empire Games of 1958, ... Found inside – Page 350... British Open Championship , longest and shortest championship matches 270 ... official world weightlifting records 335 , world powerlifting records 336 ... Over the course of her career, Augee made five appearances for England between 1986-2002 and won 4 medals including Gold in Auckland 1990. Both lifted 95kg, but Redgwick took the title on a tiebreak. He placed fourth overall in the Summer Olympics in the same year at the height of the Eastern Bloc boycott. Tokyo 2020 Weightlifting events. Marie Forteath was a European Champion & World Medallist in the late eighties. Remember the name "ZUBY." To fight bigotry. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to weightlifting. If you believe a superior record from a sanctioned competition exists to those listed on this website, please contact admin@bcweightlifting.ca with the details. After taking up weightlifting in the UK he won three Gold medals representing Great Britain at the Maccabiah Games in the lightweight division, triumphing in 1950, 1953, and 1957, and also secured Bronze for England at the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. He repeated that continental success the following year and went on to compete in a second Olympics. The rapper was videoed apparently beating three female British weightlifting records in a gym. In 1899 he went from strength to strength and set four new British records at the amateur championships. Records BCWA records were reclassified into the new weight classes in September 2018 based on the best competition results available. U-Won produced a superior clean and jerk, but Mercer’s strong snatch performance ultimately secured him the final position on the rostrum. After he retired, Martin eventually set up a series of gyms where he helped train the next generation of talented lifters. — ZUBY: (@ZUB Davies represented Wales at the 1986 Commonwealth Games and picked a Bronze medal on his debut. He also represented his sport on the National Olympic Committee for at least two decades. Rowe was the recipient of the illustrious Bill McGowran Trophy, awarded to a high-achieving athlete with an impairment, an accolade since won by Tanni Grey-Thompson and David Weir. Leading the way was Atlas Weightlifting’s Commonwealth Games bronze medallist and Tokyo Olympics’ hopeful Emily Campbell, who smashed two British records on her way to be crowned English Champion with a snatch lift of 114kg followed by a best Clean & Jerk of 143kg to finish with a total of 257kg in the women’s +87kg. Creus was a dock worker from the Huyton district of Liverpool. Since then, she has steadily progressed, setting a new personal best almost every year. Found inside – Page 38No one is weightlifting performances had all imgoing to say ' I have given ... and he beat his own personal anabolic substances , I hope the others record . In 2010 Zoe competed at the IPC Powerlifting World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, finishing first in the junior event and fourth in the seniors. He went to Moscow with the 1980 British Olympic team and then struck gold again in 1982 at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in the heavyweight category. Augee also had success in powerlifting where she won numerous titles at National, European and World events. He set an Olympic record of 125kg in the snatch but had to settle 4, British University & College Championships. Despite weightlifting's absence from the programme four years later, The Athens Games was not the end of the Olympic adventure for Elliot either as he claimed 10th place for Britain in the discus at the Paris Olympiad. Found inside – Page 2069Most wins of the British Darts Organisation (BDO) Women's World Championships With her 3–2 victory over Deta Hedman (UK, b. JAM) at the Lakeside Country ... As a child, he was told he would never be able to take part in any physical exercise because it was believed his father had passed on a congenital heart condition to his son. Four years later he won his first Paralympic medal, a bronze in the 52kg weightlifting at Barcelona. Allan King of Triple X Weightlifting Club claimed the Silver medal with a total of 273kg and the Bronze medal went to Haydn Crook who recorded a total of 259kg. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Peddle set a new world record of 168kg in the -48kg, winning the gold medal in the process. An updated alphabetical list of records held in various sports from aerobatics to yachting. The event was also recognised as that year’s World Championship. Having served in the Royal Navy during World War II, Ernie Peppiatt resumed his weightlifting career after the hostilities, and won the British middleweight title in 1945. Callard helped Zoe Smith become England’s first ever female weightlifting medallist at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010 and at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018 five out of six English weightlifters were from Europa. She won Silver medals at the World Championships in Malaysia in 2002 and for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In 2021 they retired from international events and received a signed letter each from IPC President Andrew Parsons. Weightlifting. She won the competition outright the following year increasing her total to 192.5kg She picked up another Silver the following year. In 2002, he formed Europa Weightlifting Club, volunteering to give young people an opportunity to get involved in the sport. Martin represented Jamaica at Commonwealth level in 1958 but failed to total. McNiven was the first weightlifter to receive the World Masters Hall of Fame Award in 1993. He settled in Auckland and won his fourth Commonwealth gold representing New Zealand at the age of 42 at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. British Powerlifting only document and publish British Level Records. He was awarded an MBE by the Queen in 1983 for his services to sport. Stones made his Paralympic debut at the Arnhem 1980 Paralympic Games producing a 4th place finish. Male Equipped Records 01-07-21. Elliot will be remembered as a true internationalist as despite spending most of his life in England and finding fame in Greece his daughter Nacy said “He was called Launceston, as he was conceived in Launceston, the capital of Tasmania. And record holders community in Bolton Millen, and the middleweight Gold at. 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