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LGBT+ History Month

LGBT+ History Month is a celebration each February in the UK of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and non-binary history. This includes the history of LGBT+ rights and related civil rights movements.

School club success

British Weight Lifting are delighted to have feedback on the outcome of a successful funding bid. Paul Lane, who has completed his BWL Level 1 Award in Coaching Weightlifting, came to BWL's Regional Relationship Manager in the North Tom Wilkinson asking for help with supporting a bid to set up a club for his school, Coop Academy Swinton, Salford.

Sylvanus Blackman (1933-2021)

It is with great sadness that British Weight Lifting has recently learned that one of our most tenacious and resolute Olympic weightlifters, Sylvanus Blackman, has passed away at the age of 87.British Weight Lifting would like to send our deepest condolences to his friends and family and pay tribute to a courageous figure who represented Barbados, England and Great Britain with distinction in an international career that spanned over a decade.

Holocaust Memorial Day

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day marking the 76th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 is ‘Be the Light In The Darkness’. It encourages everyone to reflect on the depth’s humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities resisted that darkness to ‘be the light’ before, during and after genocide.

Para Powerlifting World Cup Team Announcement

British Weight Lifting has today revealed the 13 athletes who will compete at the Manchester 2021 World Para Powerlifting World Cup from 25-28 March, their first competition since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.The event - which takes place at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Forum - will see athletes from around the globe go head-to-head for crucial ranking places at one of the final qualification opportunities for this summer’s rescheduled Tokyo Paralympic Games (24 August – 5 September).

Revisiting the 2019 England Championships

Today marks two years since the England Weight Lifting Championship were last held. While there have been other English events in-between with the England Grand Prix and Age Group Championships, we thought we would revisit the January 2019 title event ahead of the upcoming England Virtual Championships next month.