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British Weight Lifting are delighted to announce the squad selected to represent Great Britain at this year’s IWF World Championships in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

British records were broken, new personal bests were achieved, and British Champions were crowned, there were many highlights of the 2018 British Youth, Junior and U23 Championships.The opening session of day 1 was the men’s M50, 56, 62kg which featured many upcoming lifters, Luca Michael registered a total of 205kg in the men’s 62kg U23.The women’s 44-48kg featured Mia Keegan who has recently enjoyed success at The European Youth Weightlifting Championships, Mia secured Gold with a total of 110kg in the women’s 48kg.Competing in her first competition since the Commonwealth Games, Fraer Morrow registered a total of 173kg in the Women’s 53kg (Under 20) to secure Gold and set a new record Snatch of 76kg in the U20, and a new total record of 173kg in the U20 and U23.

This week has seen the Para Powerlifting Asia-Oceania Open Championships take place in Kitakyushu.

The Youth Olympic Games is the pinnacle sporting event for any junior athlete and today 42 young stars have been officially selected to represent Team GB at Buenos Aires 2018.The Games, which run from the 6th – 18th October, will see Team GB compete in 17 of the 32 sports on the programme across 12 days of competition.The team consists of athletes aged between 14 and 18 years old, with the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) playing a crucial role in the development of young athletes from the United Kingdom and across the world.Ellie Pryor, 16 has been selected to represent Great Britain for Weightlifting.

British Weightlifting are pleased to announce the team selected to attend the 2018 FISU World University Weightlifting Championships taking place in Biala Podlaska, Poland between 20th- 23rd September.

British Weightlifting are delighted to announce the team selected to attend the European Juniors/Under 23 Weightlifting Championships taking place in Zamosc, Poland between 20th-27th October.

This year the European youth championships took place in the beautiful city of Milan, Italy. In true Italian style the competition started with a fantastic opening ceremony full of Music, Opera Singing and art which set the tone for a very well run competition from the Italian Weightlifting Federation.

British Weight Lifting are pleased to announce the team that will attend the World Para Powerlifting Asian-Oceania Open Championships taking place in Kitakyushu (Japan) between 8th- 12th September.

Catrin Jones from Bangor finished in 4th place at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Junior World Championships which took place in Uzbekistan last week.

Long standing weightlifting referee David Mannion recently won Bronze at The European Masters held in Budapest last month.