British Weight Lifting (BWL) is delighted to announce a team of eleven athletes for the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) European Junior & Under 23 Weightlifting Championships. Seven junior athletes and four under 23 athletes are due to fly out to Albania for the competition, which is being held 13-25 October 2022.
British Weight Lifting is delighted to announce the team for the 2022 World Para Powerlifting (WPPO) European Championships which will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia between 24 and 29 September.
Following the announcement of the British Open which is to be held between 10 – 11 September at Loughborough University, British Weight Lifting are pleased to announce that we will also be teaming up with the National Fitness Games FitFest event.
As we come to the end of a remarkable Commonwealth Games on English soil it is important for us to reflect on an amazing week of sport for British Weight Lifting which saw a combined weightlifting and para powerlifting medal haul of four gold, three silver and two bronze medals. Team England won its first male weightlifting gold medal in 20 years and para powerlifting secured its first ever gold medal.
The para powerlifting took place yesterday at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (4 August 2022). British Weight Lifting (BWL) welcomed six athletes competing across the light weight and heavyweight categories.
Wednesday 3 August was the final day of weightlifting in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The day was an immense showcase of talent which saw four more home nation athletes take to the platform. Emily Campbell put on an amazing performance, out lifting her silver medal winning Olympic lifts from Tokyo 2020.
Tuesday 2 August brought with it three more groups of weightlifting, the women’s 76kg, the men’s 96kg, and the women’s 87kg category. Five home nation athletes took to the platform and gave their all.
British Weight Lifting would like to congratulate all athletes who competed on day three of weightlifting at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, a day when TWO gold medals were secured by Chris Murray and Sarah Davies.
Day two of the weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games did not disappoint, with multiple Commonwealth records broken and a silver medal for Jess Gordon-Brown in the women’s 59kg category.
British Weight Lifting would like to congratulate all athletes who competed on the first day of weightlifting at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and what a day it was. A bronze for Team England secured by Fraer Morrow in the women’s 55kg category, along with multiple British records broken.
