Tag: Sport: Powerlifting
Emil Krastev (93KG) Exceeds the IPF Total World Record in Training
Bulgarian powerlifter Emil Krastev is on his way to disrupt the 93-kilogram class in the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF). He has been on the podium at the last three Classic World Championships (CWC), but he wants to finally ascend to the top step and take the gold medal for himself. Krastev’s training has been flying recently. On Feb….
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2024 WRPF Northeast Regionals Meet Results
The 2024 World Raw Powerlifting Federation (WRPF) Northeast Regionals meet was held on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Fort Lee, NJ. Sixty-two athletes from across the United States gathered to compete in this event. The meet featured multiple Junior, Sub-Master, and Master divisions across weight classes and Open categories. Chase Ripley was crowned the Men’s Best Lifter; Ness…
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Agata Sitko — Poland’s Powerlifting Powerhouse Comes of Age
In the wake of her incredible win at the 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships, it’s time to look at the short and incandescent career of Poland’s prodigious powerlifting star, Agata Sitko. Sitko burst onto the competitive powerlifting scene in 2021, winning the Junior 76-kilogram class at the 2021 European Powerlifting Federation (EPF) European Equipped Championships (EEC) in style. She competed in…
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2024 WRPF Iron Throwdown III Results
The 2024 World Raw Powerlifting Federation (WRPF) Iron Throwdown III occurred at the Ironside Training facility in Portland, OR, on Feb. 10-11, 2024. The two-day meet featured two open sessions capped at 120 athletes.* Below are the full results: *Per the WRPF rulebook, athletes in the top 10 percent of DOTS scores are tested at the end of…
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Taylor Atwood Will Not Compete at the 2024 Powerlifting America Raw Nationals
Elite powerlifter Taylor Atwood holds the top spot in the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) rankings on GL points. A three time world champion, Atwood has dominated the 74-kilogram class for years. Atwood holds eight national powerlifting titles. He has competed in Raw Nationals every year from 2014 to 2022 and remains unbeaten at that level. However, he missed that meet…
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World Record 1,053 Pound Squat (and What If Tom Haviland Did Strongman)? — Strength Weekly 2/16
Strength weekly is bringing you everything you need to know from around the barbell game! This week, we’re covering: Here’s the episode breakdown: 00:00 Intro00:41 Run of Show02:30 The BIGGEST powerlifting show of all time09:27 Jesus Olivares’ big time squat12:16 Tom Haviland’s strongman potential18:30 HYROX expands to Canada Follow David Thomas Tao and Phil Blechman on Instagram.
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These Are (Some of) the Best Fitness Content Creators to Follow in 2024
The days of getting your fitness advice exclusively from magazines (or, worse yet, your high school gym coach) are dead and gone. Social media certainly comes with its own perils, but one of the best things about Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok is that there’s probably a creator or health coach out there who gets you — if you know…
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The 2025 Sheffield Powerlifting Championship Scheduled For Jan. 26, 2025
The Sheffield Powerlifting Championships will return to Sheffield City Hall on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, in the Oval Hall of Sheffield City Hall. Twenty-four of the world’s strongest powerlifters — 12 male and 12 female — will converge in Sheffield, England, to lift against their respective weight class’s International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) raw total world record for the…
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Anatolii Novopismennyi (105KG) Sets IPF Raw Squat World Record of 363 Kilograms at 2024 Sheffield Championships
The 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships on Feb. 10, 2024, in Sheffield, England, was a who’s who of the world’s best powerlifters clashing at the peak of their games. Of the 24 athletes (12 male, 12 female) who competed, 14 of them eclipsed the IPF raw total world records in their respective weight classes. Several of the athletes not…
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Records Fall in the Men’s 74KG Class at the 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships
The Men’s 74-kilogram class at the 2023 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Classic World Championships (CWC) saw one of the competition’s tightest finishes and biggest upsets. Three-time world champion Taylor Atwood was in third place, beaten by only half a kilo. Tim Monigatti broke Atwood’s raw squat world record with 283.5 kilograms but was ultimately eclipsed on bodyweight by Sweden’s Junior sensation, Carl Johansson, for the world…
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