Australian Schools Bench Press Championships

Name: Australian Schools Bench Press Championships
Start: 2024-09-01T08:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-08-31T17:00:00+10:00
Location: Australia Wide

September 1, 2024 @ 8:00 am – August 31, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Event Information

Set a Bench Press Performance at your school or local gym, get your Schoolteacher to verify your lift and rate yourself against Australia’s strongest schoolboys and girls.

Event Organiser

Matthew McKay

0447 298 424

memckay2000@gmail.com

Location

Australia Wide – Entry via your Schoolmaster.

Events

Bench Press

Age groups U14/U16/U18 as at 1 Jan. 2025
Bodyweight classes —
- Boys 56/62/69/77/85/94/105/105+kg
- Girls 44/48/53/58/64/72/84/84+kg

Records

Australian Schools Records can be set

To claim a record, enter the contest as per usual, but also send a video of the lift to info@powerliftingaustralia.com.

Certificates will be sent to record-setters.

Entries

Schoolteacher supervises your Bench Press lift in class, school gym or local club, records your results, certifies your age, bodyweight & by the rules lift performance and submits entry.

Entries close 31 August 2025.

Entry Form

Rules

Your Bench Press lift must be done strictly and safely i.e.

— warmup under teacher’s guidance
— have 3 spotters around each lift
— lifter lays on bench with feet flat on ground, buttocks on bench, head on bench
— with spotters help take bar out to full arm’s length
— take bar down to chest, touch and then up to full arm’s length
— no bouncing on chest, no movement of feet, buttocks or head during lift
— max. 3 strict attempts allowed

Medals

Gold, Silver, Bronze in each age/bodyweight category, presented at your school

Prizes

Rappd weight set to the School with the most entries

Take it Further

Enter the Youth Australian and World Powerlifting Championships

2024 Results

SCHOOL	NAME	M/F	BIRTH YEAR	AGE GROUP	BWGT KG	BWGT CLASS	WGT LIFTED	PLACE
Heatherwood School	Charli Luttgens	F	2006	U18	53.60	58	35	1
Heatherwood School	Phoebe Edwards	F	2007	U18	57.50	58	32.5	2
Arthur Phillip High	Alesha Khaznadar	F	2007	U18	54.50	58	30	3

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart	Josephine Jeffries	F	2006	U18	62.00	64	65	1
Heatherwood School	Amy McBrude	F	2006	U18	59.80	64	25	2
Heatherwood School	Bebe Peters	F	2006	U18	62.90	64	22.5	3

Craigslea State High	Charlotte Storey	F	2007	U18	72.00	72	60	1

Arthur Phillip High	Roqia Yaqubi	F	2007	U18	74.30	84	60	1
Rockhampton Grammar	Abbey Harvey	F	2006	U18	78.00	84	55	2

Heatherwood School	Bianca Lawrence	F	2006	U18	114.70	84+	40	1

Arthur Phillip High	Jaylarni Vidler	F	2009	U16	63.90	64	50	1
Mitcham Girls High	Isabelle Baldock	F	2008	U16	63.30	64	40	2

Sydney Secondary College Leichhardt	Irini Kapsalis	F	2009	U16	70.00	72	60	1
Faith Lutheran College	Amelia Bausch	F	2009	U16	71.60	72	45	2
Bayside Christian College	Asha Manning	F	2008	U16	67.00	72	42	3

Brisbane North College	Khloe Honeysett	F	2016	U14	43.00	44	22.5	1

St Benedict’s Primary	Scarlett Napper	F	2016	U14	45.40	48	16	1

Arthur Phillip High	Teila-Laine Anapu	F	2010	U14	61.20	64	30	1

Insane High	Allegra Faatoe	F	2010	U14	106.60	84+	40	1
Insane High	Eva-Soul Faatoe	F	2012	U14	107.75	84+	40	2

Heatherwood School	Kayde Newton	M	2007	U18	54.60	56	40	1
Heatherwood School	Rhy Cammiade	M	2007	U18	44.80	56	30	2

Koo Wee Rup Secondary College	Zaky Sullivan	M	2008	U16	52.00	56	77.5	1
Cleveland S.H.S.	George Dyson	M	2008	U16	51.00	56	70	2
Ormiston College	Ben Skinner	M	2009	U16	54.00	56	65.5	3
The Ponds High School	Jad Nasser	M	2008	U16	52.00	56	65	4
Arthur Phillip High	Sean Seignarack	M	2009	U16	51.60	56	62	5
Northlakes High School	Riley Brown	M	2008	U16	52.80	56	45	6
Ormiston College	Luke Moloney	M	2009	U16	48.75	56	38	7
Northlakes High School	Chase Blake	M	2009	U16	51.10	56	35	8
Northlakes High School	Jai Bray	M	2009	U16	44.20	56	30	9
Northlakes High School	Luke selby	M	2009	U16	38.10	56	20	10

Rockhampton Grammar	Archie Becker	M	2011	U14	54.00	56	55	1
Arthur Phillip High	Ghayure Ali Nazari	M	2010	U14	55.80	56	50	2
South Sydney High	Liam Kos	M	2012	U14	56.00	56	50	3
Ormiston College	Damon Skinner	M	2011	U14	43.00	56	42.5	4
Arthur Phillip High	Arnav Vikas	M	2011	U14	52.30	56	40	5
Brisbane North College	Thoren Honeysett	M	2013	U14	43.50	56	22.5	6
St Benedict’s Primary	Mackenzie Napper	M	2014	U14	40.30	56	20	7
Northlakes High School	Logan Reid	M	2010	U14	41.70	56	20	8

The Ponds High School	Elijah Whitton	M	2007	U18	57.70	62	92.5	1
Arthur Phillip High	Min Kway	M	2006	U18	58.00	62	70	2
Arthur Phillip High	Hussein Alhasnawi	M	2007	U18	60.10	62	70	3
Northlakes High School	Cobie Robertson	M	2007	U18	57.80	62	52.5	4
Heatherwood School	Jay Cecchin	M	2007	U18	60.40	62	47.5	5

Waverley Christian College NWS	Ethan Alejandrino	M	2008	U16	61.80	62	95	1
Clare High School	Archer Maher	M	2009	U16	61.00	62	91	2
South Sydney High	Josiah Epp	M	2009	U16	60.00	62	70	3
South Sydney High	Billy Pearson	M	2008	U16	62.00	62	70	4
Northlakes High School	Jimmy McDonald	M	2008	U16	59.00	62	65	5
Ormiston College	Edward Wilson	M	2009	U16	57.50	62	63	6
The Ponds High School	Callum Pereira	M	2008	U16	58.00	62	60	7
Heatherwood School	Naukim Kim	M	2008	U16	59.00	62	52.5	8
Queanbeyan High	Lachie Silk	M	2008	U16	61.00	62	50	9
Northlakes High School	Riley Morgan Claridge	M	2009	U16	60.20	62	47.5	10
Northlakes High School	Jaxsen Mooney	M	2009	U16	61.7.0	62	45	11
Northlakes High School	Bailey Coote	M	2009	U16	56.10	62	40	12
Northlakes High School	Nate Falconer	M	2009	U16	58.60	62	40	13
Northlakes High School	Mitchell Sheenan	M	2009	U16	57.10	62	30	14

Rockhampton Grammar	Tom Bailey	M	2010	U14	61.00	62	55	1
South Sydney High	Maksym Kosheliev	M	2010	U14	60.00	62	50	2

Werribee Secondary College	Evdin Kacic	M	2006	U18	69.00	69	112.5	1
Hobart College	Robbie Reeves	M	2006	U18	68.00	69	107.5	2
South Sydney High	Lucas Potsou	M	2006	U18	65.00	69	100	3
South Sydney High	Luke Newrick	M	2007	U18	65.00	69	95	4
Rosny College	Xavier Bull	M	2006	U18	69.00	69	95	5
Rockhampton Grammar	Nolan Zhixuan Hao	M	2007	U18	69.00	69	90	6
Ormiston College	Jake Bird	M	2007	U18	69.00	69	78	7
Heatherwood School	Oscar Payne	M	2007	U18	63.50	69	40	8

Cavendish Road SHS	Asher Tame	M	2009	U16	66.00	69	97.5	1
Northlakes High School	Jayden Ciemcioch	M	2008	U16	66.30	69	85	2
Arthur Phillip High	Leon Morunga	M	2009	U16	66.70	69	85	3
South Sydney High	Anthony De Jong	M	2008	U16	64.00	69	80	4
Marcellin College Randwick	Felix Aarons	M	2008	U16	66.00	69	80	5
Northlakes High School	Lochlan Maguire	M	2008	U16	68.70	69	75	6
Sacred Heart College	Rainer Stranz	M	2009	U16	66.40	69	70	7
Ormiston College	Miles Wallace	M	2009	U16	65.50	69	67.5	8
South Sydney High	Finlay Lang	M	2008	U16	69.00	69	65	9
Heatherwood School	Mitch Langdon	M	2008	U16	62.70	69	62.5	10
Northlakes High School	Cooper Foss	M	2008	U16	63.50	69	55	11
Northlakes High School	Leon Porquet	M	2008	U16	63.80	69	55	12
Northlakes High School	Kyden Morris	M	2008	U16	66.10	69	55	13
Northlakes High School	Blake King	M	2008	U16	62.10	69	52.5	14
Arthur Phillip High	Jad Fakih	M	2009	U16	65.40	69	50	15
Northlakes High School	Noah Bartlett	M	2008	U16	64.80	69	47.5	16
Northlakes High School	Ajay Roka	M	2009	U16	67.40	69	45	17

Newington College	Nicholas Softsis	M	2010	U14	68.20	69	92.5	1
South Sydney High	Charlie Gormack	M	2010	U14	63.00	69	50	2
South Sydney High	Liam Sharpe	M	2010	U14	63.00	69	40	3

Saint Ignatius College	Finn Murray-Heppell	M	2006	U18	76.50	77	140	1
Killara High School	Tiger He	M	2006	U18	76.00	77	136.5	2
Mountain Creek High	Zachary Doolan	M	2007	U18	76.80	77	117.5	3
Rockhampton Grammar	Cohen Dunnett	M	2007	U18	75.00	77	105	4
Rosny College	Jacqueline Liffiton	M	2006	U18	76.00	77	85	5
Arthur Phillip High	Basit Mohammad	M	2006	U18	74.10	77	80	6
Heatherwood School	Joshua Milton	M	2006	U18	76.60	77	72.5	7
Heatherwood School	Peter Piosicki	M	2007	U18	75.90	77	57.5	8

South Sydney High	Delai Bartholomeo	M	2008	U16	71.00	77	120	1
Queanbeyan High	Anakin Stone	M	2008	U16	72.00	77	118	2
Rockhampton Grammar	Stirling Macrae	M	2008	U16	74.00	77	110	3
St Mary MacKillop College	Isaac Badowski	M	2008	U16	74.20	77	110	4
Plympton International College	John Megalli	M	2009	U16	72.00	77	100	5
Lilydale High School	Nathan Matthews	M	2008	U16	76.50	77	97.5	6
Arthur Phillip High	Arden Kelley	M	2009	U16	70.40	77	87.5	7
Ormiston College	Coby Lucas	M	2008	U16	74.00	77	77.5	8
Ormiston College	Coby Lucas	M	2008	U16	75.00	77	77.5	8
Lilydale High School	Kobey Jervis	M	2008	U16	70.00	77	75	10
Northlakes High School	Harrison Monger	M	2008	U16	74.50	77	67.5	11
Northlakes High School	Blake Edwards	M	2008	U16	73.50	77	62.5	12
Northlakes High School	Tristan Vorwerk	M	2008	U16	71.20	77	55	13
Arthur Phillip High	Kumail Batool	M	2009	U16	71.00	77	40	14

Arthur Phillip High	Justin Zhuang	M	2010	U14	72.30	77	65	1
Arthur Phillip High	Xiaoging Chen	M	2010	U14	76.80	77	65	2
South Sydney High	Jake Tassone	M	2010	U14	76.00	77	55	3

Nowra High School	Tyler Bate	M	2007	U18	79.00	85	140	1
Prairiewood High School	Fadee Shorees	M	2006	U18	84.20	85	140	2
Iona College	Adam Kelly	M	2006	U18	82.50	85	125	3
Kalunda Senior High	Joshua Hernan	M	2007	U18	80.00	85	120	4
Mountain High School	Zac Doolan	M	2007	U18	77.90	85	115	5
South Sydney High	Jordan Saunders	M	2007	U18	79.00	85	100	6
Rosny College	Josh Hunt	M	2005	U18	80.00	85	72.5	DQ

Arthur Phillip High	Navruzjon Shokhirov	M	2008	U16	81.30	85	110	1
Jannall High School	Luke Erickson	M	2008	U16	83.00	85	107.5	2
Arthur Phillip High	Youssef Islam	M	2008	U16	81.90	85	105	3
Monbulk College	Lincoln Mongan	M	2008	U16	84.00	85	100	4
Sydney Secondary College Leichhardt	Patrick Ross	M	2008	U16	83.00	85	85	5
Ormiston College	Kristian Nel	M	2009	U16	84.00	85	83	6
Northlakes High School	Joshua Love	M	2009	U16	77.80	85	80	7
Northlakes High School	Jacob Young	M	2008	U16	78.10	85	55	8

Arthur Phillip High	Vili Kolo	M	2011	U14	84.20	85	62.5	1

Rockhampton Grammar	Tom Baker	M	2006	U18	86.50	94	150	1
Maitland High School	Josh Ollerenshaw	M	2006	U18	88.00	94	120	2
Jannali High School	Thomas Attwells	M	2007	U18	90.00	94	110	3
Janneli High School	Vadim Aglushevich	M	2007	U18	90.00	94	110	3
Alexandra Hills High	Joel Goodwin	M	2007	U18	92.00	94	80.5	5
Northlakes High School	Angus Durrington	M	2006	U18	89.50	94	70	6

Lilydale High School	Asher Roche	M	2008	U16	87.50	94	115	1
Arthur Phillip High	Zi Hao Chen	M	2009	U16	93.20	94	110	2
South Sydney High	Luc Tucker	M	2008	U16	94.00	94	110	3
Arthur Phillip High	Seif Obeidat	M	2009	U16	85.50	94	100	4
Maclean High School	Robert Miller	M	2009	U16	90.00	94	100	5
Rockhampton Grammar	Jake Gillard	M	2008	U16	89.00	94	75	6
Northlakes High School	Cooper Thorne	M	2008	U16	86.10	94	72.5	7
Northlakes High School	Beau Simpson Day	M	2009	U16	87.00	94	60	8
Northlakes High School	Wyat Zipf	M	2008	U16	89.40	94	60	9
Northlakes High School	Mason Fuller	M	2009	U16	88.70	94	55	10
Northlakes High School	Chace Hopley	M	2009	U16	90.00	94	50	11
Northlakes High School	Thomas Trigg	M	2008	U16	90.00	94	47.5	12

Arthur Phillip High	Dylan Hong	M	2010	U14	90.00	94	80	1

St. Laurence’s College	Thomas Stenhouse	M	2007	U18	98.60	105	165	1
Hobart College	Sean Bader	M	2007	U18	101.00	105	165	2
Rockhampton Grammar	Joshua Withoos	M	2006	U18	98.00	105	110	3
Lilydale High School	Elio Giambalkaris	M	2007	U18	104.00	105	100	4

Northlakes High School	Beau Walters	M	2008	U16	97.90	105	70	1
Northlakes High School	Jy Morgan	M	2009	U16	97.70	105	45	2
Northlakes High School	Luke Maxwell	M	2008	U16	95.50	105	30	3

South Sydney High	Samuel Likhorovitch	M	2010	U14	95.00	105	75	1
Northlakes High School	Kyan Tupou	M	2010	U14	97.70	105	60	2
Arthur Phillip High	Pritchard Sae	M	2010	U14	99.10	105	50	3

South Sydney High	Nikolas Manesis	M	2007	U18	112.00	105+	105	1
Brisbane School of Distance Education	Otis Popping	M	2007	U18	105.20	105+	75.5	2

St Andrews’s Anglican College	Ethan Greenhalgh	M	2008	U16	129.00	105+	155	1
Arthur Phillip High	Isope Akauola	M	2008	U16	111.30	105+	110	2
Arthur Phillip High	Mehdi Haidari	M	2008	U16	133.00	105+	110	3
Heatherwood School	Leif King-Pascual	M	2008	U16	124.90	105+	70	4

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Size	Chest (in)	Chest (cm)
XS	30.5 – 31.5	77.5 – 80.0
S	32.0 – 33.0	81.3 – 83.8
M	33.5 – 35.0	85.1 – 88.9
L	35.5 – 37.0	90.2 – 94.0
XL	37.5 – 42.0	95.3 – 106.7

Size	Chest (in)	Chest (cm)
S	35 – 37	88.9 – 94.0
M	38 – 41	96.5 – 104.1
L	42 – 44	106.7 – 111.8
XL	45 – 48	114.3 – 121.9
2XL	49 – 52	124.5 – 132.1
3XL	53 – 56	134.6 – 142.2
4XL	57 – 60	144.8 – 152.4

	S	M	L	XL	XXL	XXXL
WAIST(IN)	28-30	30-32	32-34	34-36	36-38	38-40
INSEAM(IN)	6.7	6.9	7.1	7.3	7.5	7.7

Size	Weight (lb)	Weight (kg)
S	120 – 140	52 – 61
M	140 – 165	61 – 75
L	165 – 195	75 – 88
XL	195 – 230	88 – 104
2XL	230 – 265	104 – 120
3XL	265 – 305	120 – 138
4XL	305 – 345	138 – 156

WP SHORTS	XS	S	M	L	XL	XXL	XXXL
WAIST (RELAXED)	34	36	38	40	42	44	46
OUTSIDE LEG	31.5	33	34	35.5	36.5	38	39

Australian Schools Bench Press Championships

September 1, 2024 @ 8:00 am – August 31, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Event Information

Event Organiser

Matthew McKay

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Events

Records

Entries

Rules

Medals

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2024 Results

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WP TSHIRTS	XS	S	M	L	XL	XXL	XXXL
BODY WIDTH	40	44	48	51	55	60	66
BODY LENGTH	69	72	73	76	79	82	84

PA TSHIRTS	XS	S	M	L	XL	XXL	XXXL
BODY WIDTH	40	44	48	51	55	60	66
BODY LENGTH	69	72	73	76	79	82	84

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BODY WIDTH	39.5	43	47	50	55	60	66
BODY LENGTH	67	70	72	76	79	81	82

Australian Schools Bench Press Championships

September 1, 2024 @ 8:00 am – August 31, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Event Information

Event Organiser

Matthew McKay

Location

Events

Records

Entries

Rules

Medals

Prizes

Take it Further

2024 Results

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