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14th June Glasgow All Round League -Results are in for Leg 3 and Leg 4 10th June New Contact Details for Chris Bass - Records Registrar: Phone:01472 250918 email:chris.bass@havengym.org.uk 7th June New phone number for Records Registrar: Chris Bass 01472 250918. 5th June British All Round Championships - St Just, Cornwall - 16 lifters Mark Haydock Wins Health and Strength Trophy for best Lifter, 2nd Simon Mansell, 3rd Steve Andrews 31st May Mark Price lifts off at Powerhouse Gym on the lifts for the British All Round Champs which he is unable to attend Clean and Press Behind Neck: 90k Cheat Curl: 85k Trap Bar Deadlift: 215k 25th May Roger Davis Records Ratified from 25.4.10 (Kent and Sussex) All lifts were at 80kg Reverse curl 55.5kg 40+IAWA record Reverse grip press 70.5kg 40+IAWA record Alternate grip press 75.5kg 40+IAWA record Hang Snatch 76.5kg 40+IAWA record +... OPEN RECORD Seated Press BN 70.5kg 40+IAWA record RH Zercher 136.5kg 40+IAWA record + OPEN RECORD LH Zercher 126.5kg 40+IAWA record + OPEN RECORD Seated Press 70.5kg 40+ British record 23rd May Results in for A Round Postal Leage Leg 2 Sussex Strength win the leg ahead of Granby and Sunbury 21st May Three Drug Tests were carried out at the New Romney Competition on 24th April All three were negative : Steve Maden, Rob McGee and Samuel Blunt 10th May Nick Swain has changed the date of the British Grip Championships to Sunday 18th July 8th May Midlands Olympic Championships - Burton on Trent De Yoxall Shield for Best Lifter goes to Mark Haydock (2nd Steve Andrews 3rd John Kavanagh) 4th May Drug Testing at Midlands All Round Champs - Grimsby Result: Dan Butterworth - Negative Result 25th April Kent and Sussex All Round Championships New Romney in Kent - 7 Lifters Good Competition - Promoter Nick Swain - Drug Testing Carried Out 6th April Andy Goddard Tribute Neil Abery is the first winner of the annual Event! See full results on results page. 22nd March South Downs Strongman Entry Form for 19th June - available on Strongman Page 19th March IAWA(UK) All Round Postal League Leg 1 Results After Leg 1 the top three clubs are: 1st Sunbury 1 2nd Sussex Strength 3rd Granby Grippers 13th March Midlands All Round Champs Saturday 13.3.2010 - Haven Gym, Grimsby Best Masters Lifter - Peter Ready Trophy = Steve Andrews Best Overall Open Lifter - Bill Jelley Award = Mark Haydock 8th March A Lift for Andy - A tribute to Andy Goddard To mark one year on March 26th Since Andy was taken from us! Steve Gardner announces a Postal competition on two of Andys favourite lifts: the Bench Press and the Deadlift. Lifts to be done by March 26th at latest! 22nd February 17th Jan Records - Hailsham Leisure Centre Lifter Nick Swain Age 44 (M40+) Bwt 85.0 (85 Class) Reflex Clean and Push Press 80.5k Middle Fingers Clean + Jerk 40.5 Reverse Rim Lift 70k With Gordon Fairey (Age 30 Bwt 95k) Two Man Cheat Curl 100k Refs: Phil Crisp Mike Archer 31st Jan Records - Folkestone Barracks Lifters: Nick Swain Age 44 Bwt 83.5k and Jenn Donatelli Age 26 Bwt 100.5 Nick: Middle Fingers C+Jerk 45k Jenn Donatelli: Reflex C+Push Press 60.5k Jerk Racks (B Neck) 70.5k Rect Fix 27.5 Rim Lift 60k Left Hand Barbell Snatch 20k Reverse Rim Lift 50k Refs: Steve Maden Phil Crisp 18th February Southern All Round Championships Nick Swai had 11 lifters at the competition on 13th February Results and photos soon! 10th February Roger Davis Record Attempts at Powerhouse Gym Lifter: Roger Davies Bwt 80.0 Class 85k Age 40 Div M40+ Refs: Karen Gardner Graham Saxton Steve Gardner Successful attempts: L H D Bell Press 40k R H D Bell Press 45.5k 2 Hs Dumbells Press 80k 2 Hs D Bells C+Jerk 90k L H D Bell Swing 50k R H D Bell Swing 55k R H D Bell Snatch 53k L H D Bell Snatch 45k 2 Hs Dumbells Swing 70k R H D Bell C+Jerk 60k L H D Bell C+Jerk 50k Information passed to Chris Bass for Records Ratification! 8th February World Team Postal 2010 Steve Gardner has announced plans for the World Team Postal Event, and following on last years success hopes to increase the numbers taking part this year REMEMBER: Although it is a Team Postal, Individual Lifters can still post their totals for inclusion in the World Postal Rankings! Lifts to be completed by End of September - Entry forms will go out in the July Journal (or Download Entry Form from Home Page) - Lifts: One Hand Barbell Snatch - Two Hands Pinch Grip - Bench Press Feet in Air - Civiattone Deadlift. Following the success of the 2009 Team Postal event......... (33 lifters and ten teams took part) Steve is going to try and double this years participation. In 2009 we had teams from Australia, USA, and England, and this year we hope to build on that, this year already Spain have asked to take part! The event is promoted by IAWA President: Steve Gadner, who will distribute score sheets via the various Newsletters and Journals. The lifts will be: The One Hand Barbell Snatch (indicate which hand used), The Two Hands Pinch Grip Lift, The Bench Press Feet in the Air, The Ciavattone Deadlift. The tournament is being run as a team match where teams will consist of three lifters, they may be Juniors, Open Lifters, Masters or Ladies or any combination of the afore mentioned, as all lifters results will be age and body weight amended etc. The lifts can be performed any time in 2010 BEFORE the end of September. The lifts must be performed before at least two IAWA Officials, who MUST also sign the score sheet. The competition will be run as a usual IAWA event with a rising bar. Teams or Groups can enter any number of lifters into the competition, and the top three amended scores will formulate a first team etc. Any individual members left will still have their totals configured into the results which will also be produced to give individual rankings on all lifts and totals, and all divisions and body weights.Lifters who are not members of a group, team or club can still submit their results so long as they can get their lifts officiated, and all results will form the rankings as described in the above paragraph.The score sheets should be completed using kilos where possible, but the organiser will convert pounds to kilos if needs be, BUT please make sure all sheets are completed accurately and legibly. You will notice there are four boxes per lift to correspond with 4 attempts per lift if required, the best lift of the 4 should be circled.If lifters require certificates, please affix an e mail address in the appropriate box on the score sheet, and these will be submitted by e mail for you to print off. The score sheet can be copied off as many times as you wish to submit as many teams or lifters as you wish. There is no fee attached to this competition. There are five lines on a score sheet to accommodate a team of three plus two others, if there are six lifters, use two score sheets with one team on each etc. When the lifts are completed please submit without delay: Steve Gardner – 18 Holly Road, Barton, Staffs. England DE13 8LP or by E Mail to: steve-g@powerful.co.uk 1st February 2010 Lifts for the 2010 All Round Postal League Leg 1 Reflex Push Press -Jerk from Racks (Front or Rear)- 2H Hacklift -Rectangular Fix End of February Leg 2 Bench Press -Squat -2H Deadlift -Crucifix End of April Leg 3 2H Press - 2H Snatch - 2H Clean & Jerk -Hold out in front (Lowered) End of June Leg 4 1H Barbell Snatch -1H Barbell C&J (Opp Hand) -1H Deadlift -Abdominal Raise End of August Leg 5 1H Dumbbell Press - Push Press -Continental onto Belt - Barbell Cheat Curl End of October Leg 6 2H Dbell Press -2H Dbell Swing -2H Dbell Clean + Jerk -Pullover Arms Length End of December 17th December The Powerhouse Gym - Club Championships James Gardner Wins Best Lifter Title 7th December Two New Members are Inducted into the IAWA (UK) Hall of Fame at the 2009 Dinner Agnes Mcinally and Gerry Davidson receive their awards from inducted members: Bill Wright and Steve Andrews respectivley! 7th December Josh Haydock Receives the superb Health and Strength Award for IAWA(UK) s Best Junior Lifter Performance in 2009 7th December At the AGM IAWA(UK) Committee vote to recind the 75 points rule, so that 'open lifters' no longer have to perform lifts equal to 75 points to gain record status. It is hoped this will re fuel some interest and energy on some records blanks that have long lain dormant! 7th December IAWA(UK) AGM A full list of Fixtures was discussed for 2010, there will be more competitions than ever before, with several new venues in the South giving our lifters far more choice of competitions, BUT will the membership step up to the mark?? Posted 31st October David Bleay - World Records At the British Single Arm Championships 2009 David Bleay broke two World Records that were held by Art Montini of the USA, they were the RH Snatch and the LH Clean and Jerk. David is very proud of his fine acheivements particularly taking into consideration the fact that he had hip replacememnts in November 93 and June 94, and recovered from a heart attack in in January 2001. Your editor agrees this is a fine acheivement indeed, well done David and lets hope there is more to come! Posted 24th October Graham Alway - IAWA Record Attempts - 115 k class Open Division Graham travelled from Cornwall to Burton on Trent to attempt some records, and went away with four new records: L/H Bench Press 25k Reflex C+P Press 65k Reverse Grip Bench Press 136.5 kilos and Deadlift Bodyweight reps 15 x 110.5k Posted 14th October New Club added to IAWA(UK) Major clubs List IAWA(UK) Welcome the Hoghton Barbell Club in Preston, under the leadership of lifting supremo Mark Haydock Posted 12th October Get Well Soon - Nev and Tom Two members of the Haven Gym have been through the mill recently with different illness problems, we understand that Nev Brumby and Tom Allsopp are both on the mend now and wish them well with speedy recoveries! Posted 9th October IAWA World Council Meeting See the report from the meeting at the foot of this page! Posted 8th October Mark Haydock is the Overall Best Lifter at the 2009 World Championships In a nip and tuck battle with Al Myers of the USA, Mark came out on top to secure the coveted Overall Best Lifter Trophy - See World Champiopnships results for more info! Hastings Warriors 1 are the 2009 World Open Team Postal Champions Well done to Nick Swain Phil Crispe and Sam Hills - see results page for full results! In the individual rankings Rick Meldon headed off Al Myers and Steve Sherwood to take the title spot! Howard Prechtel attends The World Championships with Bob Geib! Everyone was pleased to see former IAWA President Howard who has been out of circulation for a while. Bob has undertaken to look after elderly Howard, and we wish him well for the future. Posted 26th August Records created on 15th August (awaiting ratification) Mark Shaw 80k Class 45+ LH Little finger Lift 43.7k - IAWA World Masters Record Graham Alway 110k Class Open Division Rev Grip Bench Press 115k - IAWA(UK) Record and Strict Curl 48k - IAWA(UK) Record Posted 15th August British Single Arm Championships - August 15th - Birstall, Leicester Overall Best Masters Winner = Tom Allsop Overall Best Open Winner =John Kavanagh Posted 20th July: Mark Rattenberry Has passed the IAWA(UK) Referees Exam. Lloyd Jarvis - Passes Strongman Drug Test Lloyd was tested at the Strongman event on the 14th July '09 and returned a negative result. Simon Mansell - An idea in the early stages. Simon informs the web master that he and others are considering organising a Charity Strongman competiton: IAWA v Army, all in aid of the 'Help the Hereos' charity. IAWA(UK) wishes them good luck with the worthy project! Posted 19th July: Mark Haydock - Midlands Olympics Best lifter! Mark won the De Yoxall Trophy at the Annual Midlands Olympics competition, ahead of Gerry Davidson and Steve Andrews Posted 18th July: Henry Smith It is with sadness that we report the death of former All Round Lifter Henry Smith. Henry competed in the first IAWA International in Leicester in 1988. Henry passed away on 24th June 2009 at the age of 94 years! Gary Ell - Exam success! We are pleased to announce that IAWA(UK) member Gary Ell has passed his IAWA Referees exam, and will now be getting on with the practical refereeing stage of his progress! |