Fifty local lifters in the China Open set the stage for the two sessions of elite international powerlifting in the Asia Pacific Open. There was a full house audience all the way through as 23 of the region’s best lifters competed in the intense atmosphere of 50,000 attendees amongst hundreds of loud all equipped stalls […]
Over 100 lifters took part in the fitness industry’s big event of the year, Fitness Show Sydney at the premier international Convention Centre. In those salubrious surrounds mainland China made its debut on the World Powerlifting stage whilst powerhouse Nauru continued to produce record-setters and Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong also produced top performances. […]
The biggest sporting event of 2018, the XXI Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, saw Powerlifting Australia’s team of four outstanding Para Powerlifters take to the platform in front of a worldwide audience. Coach Simon Bergner, Manager Bill Nancarrow and physiotherapist Sean McCoola led the way for four solid performances.
First up for Australia was […]
An Australian Team of 6 lifters and two officials travelled far afield to Mexico City for the 2017 Para Powerlifting World Championships.
The standard was sky high. Our top performer was Ben Wright, with 176kg placed him 11th in the tough 88kg class. Cris Ashcroft was also solid with 12th via 85kg and new find Kelly […]
Tropical Singapore was the venue for the 2017 Oceania Championships, with Team Australia to the fore as ever. Our top performers were up there in World Record territory. Wendy Chan at 47kg set Junior records with 132.5kg Squat, 150kg Deadlift & 355.5kg Total. Then 59kg Joshua Luu set a World Junior Record Deadlift 241kg, whilst […]
Melbourne’s stellar Fitness Show was once again the scene for the Australian Open Championships. Australia’s best 90 lifters were invited to fight out the 15 Championship titles in front of 20,000 fitness professionals & fans and the result was no less than nine new Australian Total Records.
In the Women’s classes World’s silver medallist Liz […]
The Gold Coast venue for the 2018 Commonwealth Games saw the first big Para Powerlifting event. run under the auspices of Powerlifting Australia. A stellar field of 20 lifters came forward to fight for places in the Games and new talents broke through and established stars consolidated their spots. Australia is now close to a […]
Powerlifting Australia has long supported Paralympic Powerlifting, with local events conducted all around Australia. Now we have moved a step further by establishing an Agreement with the Australian Paralympic Committee for a performance program leading up to the 2016 Commonwealth Games.
NCAS Coach Simon Bergner, assisted by Paralympics medallist Brian McNichol and our own Cameron Whittington, […]
More medals came for Australia’s team of 35 lifters at the World Powerlifting Championships in Minsk, Belarus.
Standout was Liz Craven, a medalist for the second time, improving to silver in the 52kg class but narrowly out total’d by Marisa Inda of the USA. On the way through Liz set a World Record squat of […]
The International Convention Centre in Sydney was the scene for Australia’s biggest Fitness Show and for Australia’s biggest and best Powerlifting event ever. Twenty World Records fell, along with countless Australian, Oceania, Asian and even USA records as stars like Dave Ricks, Daiki Kodama and Jeza Uepa took the stage in front of a packed […]
