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IAWA GOLD CUP Record List Standardization

The past couple of weeks I have, somewhat randomly, been changing the names of meets for consistency, stopping when a name seems a little ambiguous and research is required. Today, I focused on the IAWA Gold Cup and I was able to update all.

I thought it may be fun to list a few stats as I filter through the data. Please comment in the forum if this is something you would like posted for other yearly meets as I progress with the name changes. Note that in this first posting I have listed the old meet name before the updated one, just to give a visual of how I hope to standardize many of the meet names in the spreadsheet.

Currently, there are a total of 332 IAWA Gold Cup records standing.

The top 3 Lady record holders are;
Noi Phumchaona with 11 records
Judy Habecker with 8
Elizabeth Monk with 6

The top 3 Male holders are;
Denny Habecker with an impressive 37 records
Dennis Mitchell with 17
Art Montini with 15

Denny’s Fulton bar, Ciavattone grip deadlift is the last lift standing on the board, from the 2019 Gold Cup in Perth.

The table below lists the current IAWA Gold Cup meets containing records in chronological order;

OLD NAMENEW NAMERECORDS STANDING
92 Gold CupIAWA GOLD CUP (1992) – Collegeville, PA33
93 Gold Cup – Trenton, EnIAWA GOLD CUP (1993) – Burton upon Trent, UK3
94 Gold CupIAWA GOLD CUP (1994) – East Lake, OH25
95 Gold Cup – LeicesterIAWA GOLD CUP (1995) – Leicester, UK2
96 Gold Cup – Valley FrgIAWA GOLD CUP (1996) – Valley Forge, PA35
98 Gold Cup – ClevelandIAWA GOLD CUP (1998) – Cleveland, OH23
2000 Gold CupIAWA GOLD CUP (2000) – Burton upon Trent, UK4
2001 Gold Cup/2001 Gold Cup – ClevelandIAWA GOLD CUP (2001) – Cleaveland, OH18
2002 Gold Cup – LeicesterIAWA GOLD CUP (2002) – Leicester, UK4
2003 Gold Cup – LansdaleIAWA GOLD CUP (2003) – Lansdale, PA29
2004 Gold CupIAWA GOLD CUP (2004) – Glasgow, UK4
2005 Gold Cup – HawaiiIAWA GOLD CUP (2005) – Maui, HI9
2006 Gold Cup Lebanon, PAIAWA GOLD CUP (2006) – Lebanon, PA27
08 Gold Cup Lebanon, PA/ 2008 Gold CupIAWA GOLD CUP (2008) – Lebanon, PA27
2009 Gold CupIAWA GOLD CUP (2009) – Glasgow, UK2
2010 Gold Cup – Walpole, MAIAWA GOLD CUP (2010) – Walpole, MA16
2011 Gold Cup – EnglandIAWA GOLD CUP (2011) – Burton on Trent, UK2
2012 Gold Cup – GlasgowIAWA GOLD CUP (2012) – Glasgow, UK2
2013 Gold Cup – Lebanon, PAIAWA GOLD CUP (2013) – Lebanon, PA17
2014 Gold Cup – BurtonIAWA GOLD CUP (2014) – Burton on Trent, UK12
2015 Gold Cup – Perth AustraliaIAWA GOLD CUP (2015) – Perth, AU7
2016 Gold Cup – AbileneIAWA GOLD CUP (2016) – Abilene, KS17
2017 Gold Cup – GlasgowIAWA GOLD CUP (2017) – Glasgow, UK5
2018 Gold Cup – EastbourneIAWA GOLD CUP (2018) – Eastbourne, UK2
2019 Gold Cup – PerthIAWA GOLD CUP (2019) – Perth, AU1
2022 IAWA GOLD CUPIAWA GOLD CUP (2022) – Belfast, IE4
IAWA Gold CupIAWA GOLD CUP (2023) – Eastbourne, UK2

Record list housekeeping

Over the coming weeks I plan to overhaul the record list data.

This is possible due to the outstanding help of Sanjiv working in the background to keep me afloat. As I once did for Al when he was records director, Sanjiv has offered to assist, and so began taking on the worst part of the process; organizing the website data into a format that makes life easier. 

We have some new gung-ho members promoting meets with guns blazing and Bill’s Gym has had a mammoth resurgence on the meet/ records front no name a couple.

So, a big thank you to Sanjiv and his enthusiasm, he has made a big difference to keep me on top of the updates and this is now affording me time to make long wanted changes.

NOTES TAB
In the next update you will see a new tab added to the records excel; “NOTES”.

The plan is to note any corrections here. It will contain a copy of the changed record, who requested and who changed it and why.

The initial notes list you will see contains some records which had to be removed because they were given in err. (The person who found the error is listed just for our ease of if future research is necessary, but if you do see a mistake/lift issue in the sheet and do not want your name listed please state in your correction email.)

Unfortunately, there will be more removals due to my early misunderstanding of an “out of meet lift at Nationals” counting as a NAT lift, my apologies.

MEET NAMING
I am reworking the meet names for some consistency.

Record days will have the pre-fix “Record Day -“

Major USAWA meets will be in CAPS; NATIONALS (yr) – name, POSTAL – 1st QUARTER/POSTAL 2nd QUARTER etc.

Recent example;
89 Nationals – Pl. Meet
1989 Nationals – Plymouth

1999 Nationals – Ambridge
99 USAWA Nationals – Amb

both meets changed to;
NATIONALS (89)- Plymouth (Day 1)
NATIONALS (89)- Plymouth (Day 2)

NATIONALS (99)- Ambridge (Day 1)
NATIONALS (99)- Ambridge (Day 2)

EDIT
I’ve noticed later two day meets are listed under one name using the final days date for all lifts.
I will begin grouping old meets with two dates to follow that trend. So the changes above will become NATIONALS (89)- Plymouth, NATIONALS (99)- Ambridge. SJ



WORKING ON
Tried a new layout to consolidate the lines in the excel workbook which took over 17000 lines to 13500 odd, but while testing with formulas I discovered some typos/date errors and inconsistencies which I am correcting.

This layout test removed the ALL and NAT individual lines while adding two columns after age group, so ALL and NAT could be listed in each next to the lifter who owns them.  Note, no change to the layout is planned, this was a test of an idea to ponder but the process did help to find some hidden issues.

SJ