Club Cup
A New Way to Compete
Community-Driven Weightlifting
About the event
The Club Cup is a team-based weightlifting competition that puts fun, teamwork and community at the heart of the platform. Open to adult lifters of all abilities, the competition creates opportunities for athletes to compete as part of a team, support their clubmates and enjoy the shared experience of competition.
Designed to be welcoming and accessible, the Club Cup is a great introduction to competition for new lifters while offering experienced athletes another opportunity to represent their club. Rather than focusing on finding the UK’s “best” club, the competition celebrates participation, team spirit and the strength of the weightlifting community.
Club Cup Information
Competition format
- Clubs fielded a team of 6 lifters (3 male and 3 female). However, where a club struggled for numbers, they fielded a smaller team.
- Only one male and one female lifter who met the most recent British national qualification total, could enter.
- Athletes were grouped and sessions for Snatch and Clean & Jerk took place, with one referee.
- Each individual total was converted to Q points.
- The top 2 male and top 2 female totals from each club were combined to provide an overall Q score for their club.
- Q points are obtained by multiplying the lifter’s Snatch and Clean & Jerk total by a coefficient, which is based on gender and body weight. Meltzer-Faber coefficients (for men) or Huebner-Meltzer-Faber (for women) are used in combination with Q scores to produce age-adjusted Q points.
- The club used the Olympic Weightlifting competition management system for scoring, and a standardised spreadsheet developed by Rhys to quickly convert the results into overall standings.
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