Two teachers who were previous GB weightlifters, Dyana Altenor and Jennifer Maysmor-Gee, are touring England and Wales to encourage and motivate lifters with their weightlifting skills after lock down and are hoping to raise money in the process.
We caught up with European and Commonwealth Silver Medallist Sarah Davies before she flew out to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The Team GB athlete discussed her latest British title win, her continental success from earlier this year, as well as sharing her thoughts on the Olympics and her outstanding work on the IWF Athlete Commission.
Today is Armed Forces Day, an annual event which is a chance to show your support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community: from currently serving troops to service families, veterans and cadets.To honour the occasion, we caught up with European & Invictus Games Para Powerlifting Champion Micky Yule who served in Afghanistan.The GB International athlete offered insight into how his training is developing, shared his thoughts on mental health support and discussed the positive development of strength sport opportunities for those serving in the Armed Forces.
It’s Pride Month and this June, we want to thank and celebrate all of our members and team who identify as LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, non-binary, asexual, polysexual, genderqueer and gender variant people).
We spoke with Technical Official & Former GB International Athlete Dyana Altenor as part of our Volunteers Week series to explore the fantastic work going on in the weightlifting community as well as the benefits of volunteering.
Volunteers Week is an event running throughout this week to showcase the fantastic efforts being made across the sporting community. We caught up with Former GB International Jennifer Maysmor-Gee to get her thoughts on the positive aspects of volunteering.
British Weight Lifting are delighted to have received Approved Sport status from the Armed Forces on 21 May 2021.
British Weight Lifting are pleased to announce the renewal of its partnership with Sport and Fitness Flooring.
British Weight Lifting is delighted to announce that we have extended our partnership with Eleiko until 2025.
British Weight Lifting is delighted to announce that Jenny Tong been appointed as a BWL Non-Executive Board Director, Emily Campbell has been appointed BWL’s new Weightlifting Athlete Representative and Olivia Blatch has also been appointed to the England Committee as an Athlete Representative. The trio will take up their new positions with immediate effect.
