Category Archives: 2019 Meet Results

NE Powerlift Meet

By Christopher Lestan

MEET RESULTS –

NEW ENGLAND POWERLIFT MEET

Two new lifters in the USAWA! Zach on the left and Ryan on the right .

Two new lifters in the USAWA! Zach on the left and Ryan on the right .

What a fun and fantastic meet! We had 10 lifters competing, and 15-20 spectators ranging from family to close friends. Kim Lydon was nice enough to use her own gym which provided enough space for the lifting. The first lift was the 12″ Base Squat. Frank Ciavattone’s nieces Olivia and Natalie performed amazingly for their first comp each coming away with 71-pound squats. Zach Marharo executed a perfect 365-pound squat.

Chris Lestan Preparing to Squat 507 Pounds!

Chris Lestan Preparing to Squat 507 Pounds!

The second lift was the Bench Feet in the Air. Everyone did wonderfully with amazing feats of strength including Ryan’s 285 Bench! The highlight of the bench was Sarah Gibbons, for she failed her first attempt, and the second attempt, but got the last attempt with a personal best of 85 pounds! Lastly, the 12″ Base Deadlift was the grande finale! Everyone either made a personal best or National Record. Kim Lydon made her final attempt deadlift with a 257-pound pull which is a national record for her weight class! Newcomer Heather made a personal best of 235-pound deadlift on her last attempt! Sarah as well put up 205 deadlift which was a personal best as well! Mike pushed through and performed a 300-pound deadlift with flawless technique!

Then the big boys came in with Zach deadlifting 455 for a personal best followed by Ryan Bingham pulling 465! After we had a great cookout and award ceremony! During the awards, I gave my Overall Best Mens Lifter Award that I won to Zach. 7 weeks ago Zach had surgery to remove his appendix with three scars on his stomach where the doctors operated. He was told he couldn’t lift for 4 weeks! But he pushed through and within 3 weeks he was able to break some personal best! Also, he came in second in the Mens Division! To me that says a lot about his character and who he is as a person so naturally, I felt he won the award.  It was a great meet that included great lifts, great food, and great friends!

The starting crowd at the Meet. about 5 more people showed up to support the lifters!

The starting crowd at the Meet. about 5 more people showed up to support the lifters!

MEET RESULTS:

NE Powerlift Meet
August 31st, 2019
Canton, Massachusetts

Meet Director: Christopher Lestan

Host: Kim Lydon

Meet Announcer/Scorekeeper: Frank Ciavattone

Officials(1 official system used): Frank Ciavattone

Lifts: Squat 12″ Base, Deadlift 12″ Base, Bench Press Feet in Air

All lifts are recorded in pounds

Female Division:

Name Age Weight Class Division
Kim Lydon 28 143 65 kilo Open
Heather Bartholomew 41 262 120 kilo Masters 40-44
Sarah Gibbons 21 160 75 kilo Open
Natalie Collins 12 107 50 kilo Junior (10-13)
Olivia Collins 10 113 55 kilo Junior (10-13)

Mens Division:

Name Age Weight Class Division
Christopher Lestan 23 279 125+kg Open
Zachariah Marhamo 21 228 105kg Open
Ryan Bingham 18 325 125+kg Junior(18-19)
Mike McLaughlin 51 206 95kg Masters(50-54)
Eric Lestan 14 161 75kg Junior (14-15)

Female Final Standings

Name Squat 12″Base Bench FIA Deadlift 12″Base Lynch Points
Kim Lydon 170 105 257 583.78
Natalie Collins 71 55 140 473.10
Sarah Gibbons 155 85 205 454.21
Olivia Collins 71 45 140 447.05
Heather Bartholomew 185 125 235 430.93

Mens Final Standings

Name Squat 12″Base Bench FIA Deadlift 12″ Base Lynch Points
Christopher Lestan 507 365 600 1068.49
Zach Marhamo 365 275 455 911.25
Ryan Bingham 315 285 465 767.20
Eric Lestan 195 135 275 738.48
Mike McLaughlin 225 195 315 723.75

Overall Best Mens lifter: Christopher Lestan
Overall Best Female Lifter: Kim Lydon
Overall Best Male Junior: Ryan Bingham
Overall Best Female Junior: Natalie Collins
Overall Best Mens Masters: Mike Mclaughlin
Overall Best Females Masters: Heather Bartholomew

National Records:
Sarah Gibbons: Deadlift 205 for the 75kg class
Kim Lydon: Deadlift 257 65kg class
Christopher Lestan: 507 Squat for 125+kg class
Natalie and Olivia Collins: Deadlift 140 for 50kg and 55kg class

World Postal Championships

2019 IAWA World Postal Championships

“The Andy Goddard Memorial” August 31st, 2019

Lifts: Reverse Curl, 2H Snatch from Hang, 1H Clean & Jerk, 2H Thumbless Deadlift

 MEET REPORT, BY PROMOTER AL MYERS

Another great year for the IAWA World Postal Championships!!

This year we had 44 lifters compete from the United States, Australia, England, Scotland and Canada. This World Postal Championships is one of three (with the World Championships and the Gold Cup being the other two) promoted by IAWA.   I want to REALLY thank all those that participated. Your participation is what makes this a great event!  As per the tradition the past few years, the lifts of the first day Worlds were contested.  I’ve included all class winners and best lifters, individual overall rankings for men and women, 3 person team rankings, and club rankings.

I want to give special mention to the overall winners in each category.  The Overall Best Men’s Lifter was GARY ELL, and the Overall Best Women’s Lifter was MADDY ELL.  The Overall Best 3-person Team went to the DINO GYM VARSITY (Al Myers, LaVerne Myers, and John Douglas).  The Overall Best Club went to BURTON POWERHOUSE (Karen Gardner, Paul Hallam, Dominic Gardner, Mollie Redfern-Smith, Graham Saxton, Gary Redfern-Smith, Steve Gardner, Selina Dorn, Nicola Thornhill). I scored a new category this year – the best overall association.  The Overall Best Association went to the IAWAUK, with the USAWA in second, and the newly formed Australian Association the ARWFA was in third.

It was exciting to see 3 clubs participating from Australia this year (Ballina, The Shed, and the Lambda Lifters). For the lifters of the Ballina Club this was their first time participating in the World Postal.  There were several Junior Lifters competing this year with the youngest, Phoebe Todd, at nine years of age. The oldest lifters in the meet where Dean Ross and Denny Habecker at 76 years of age. The best club name goes to the MacBaldie Brothers consisting of Gary Ell and Andy Tomlin. I also want to mention Sylvia Stockall of Canada.  She competed as an exhibition lifter since her club does not have a certified IAWA official yet, but turned in great lifts and becomes the first lifter from Canada to compete in the IAWA World Postal Championships.

Again, I want to thank everyone for entering this meet and making it an outstanding annual event in IAWA.

MEET RESULTS: 2019 World Postal Results (word) 2019 World Postal Results (pdf)

OTSM WORLD POSTAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

By Al Myers

2019 IAWA WORLD POSTAL OLD TIME STRONGMAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Greg Cook, the Overall Best Mens Lifter, performing a Hackenschmidt Press at the 2019 OTSM World Postal Championships.

Greg Cook, the Overall Best Mens Lifter, performing a Hackenschmidt Press at the 2019 OTSM World Postal Championships.

The results from the Second Annual Old Time Strongman Championships have been tabulated.  I was so excited to see the international involvement again this year, as that makes this competition a truly World event.  This year a total of 26 lifters competed (exceeding that of last year).  Australia had 6 lifters, the United States had 8 lifters, England had 10 lifters, Wales had 1 lifter, and Canada had 1 lifter. Three different OTSM lifts were chosen this year to add a new challenge for everyone. The OVERALL BEST LIFTERS were Women – Sylvia Stockall of Canada and Men – Greg Cook of the USA.  Congratulations to both of these lifters for their exceptional lifting.  As I was putting all the results together I noticed great lifting from so many other lifters as well. I want to really thank everyone for supporting this World Championships!!!  I especially want to thank the promoters from each country for hosting the venue for the lifters.

Here are a few words from Phil Crisp:

the 2019 English Old Time Strongman Championships, the national leg for England of the World Old Time Strongman Championships, was held on 21st July in Hailsham, England. Promoted by Nick Swain and Phil Crisp, Nick very unfortunately could not make the competition due to pressing personal reasons on the day. However, his and Phil’s previous work had paid off and the competition was well set up and ready to go, with Rory Hoad, who was already pencilled in for the day as a helper, stepping up to referee and help organise the day efficiently and without missing a trick..

Whilst the usual remarks on the camaraderie, the support, the great help from Freedom Leisure where the competition was held, and the lovely weather (with the first lift taking place outside!) could all be given as highlights of the competition perhaps the most impressive part of the day was the quality of the lifting.

Leading the charge here was Rory Hoad, who took the Open and Overall titles of the English Old Time Strongman Championships. Rory pulled a huge 360kg Kennedy lift to underscore his fantastic day. Phil Crisp, last year’s champion and also the 2018 World Old Time Strongman champion was pushed into 2nd place, although Phil took the Masters category. In third overall, Paul Barette – with his usual pulling powers on show once more (!) – saw off Danny Kingsland’s very close push for the podium by a margin of 10 points. Rouhol Uddin, in a very balanced performance, took fifth followed by the excellent Steve Shah and the very promising Junior champion Brandon Hazell-Hyland.

With a few lifters having to pull out at the last minute, the field of seven could easily have been extended. The event and the idea of the Old Time World Strongman Championship, however, seems to be growing in strength under Al Myers and John Mahon and we look forward to next year’s edition!

Meet Results:

2019 IAWA World OTSM Championships
World Postal
July 20th-21st, 2019

Meet Directors: Al Myers & John Mahon

Scorekeeper: Al Myers

Venues:

Australia – Lambda Academy with promoters John Mahon & Peter Phillips
England –  Promoters Nick Swain & Phil Crisp
United States – Dino Gym with promoter Al Myers
Wales – KEDS gym with promoter Neil Keddy
Canada – Promoter Sylvia Stockall

Lifts: Thor’s Hammer, Hackenschmidt Floor Press, Kennedy Lift

WOMENS DIVISION

LIFTER AGE BWT Thor Hack Kenn TOT PTS
Sylvia Stockall, CAN 61 63.0 9.5 70.3 156.5 236.3 323.6
Racheal Hin, AUS 50 60.0 8.75 55 145 208.8 269.3
Max Ell, ENG 22 45.0 5.75 55 115 175.75 259.1
Maddy Ell, ENG 24 47.5 4.5 57.5 110 172.0 241.3
Claire McLaren, AUS 47 85.0 10 30 160 200.0 200.3

MENS DIVISION

LIFTER AGE BWT Thor Hack Kenn TOT PTS
Greg Cook, USA 62 115.7 26 117.5 365 508.5 491.3
Rory Hoad, ENG 31 86.0 12 157.5 360 529.5 487.7
Philippe Crisp, ENG 49 100.5 10 157.5 307.5 475.0 444.1
Gary Ell, ENG 48 90.0 17 120 300 437.0 427.6
John Strangeway, USA 41 93.5 25 130 320 475.0 425.7
Al Myers, USA 52 106.2 20 125 300 445.0 412.7
Paul Barette, ENG 43 77.5 8.25 90 250 348.3 354.9
John Douglas, USA 55 138.2 25 137.5 250 412.5 344.8
Danny Kngsland, ENG 29 57.5 7 100 180 287.0 344.3
Peter Phillips, AUS 65 99.4 17.5 105 190 312.5 334.6
Steven Charles, AUS 38 88.4 17.5 100 250 367.5 333.2
Barry Pensyl, USA 71 67.6 13.75 72.5 137.5 223.8 330.2
Denny Habecker, USA 76 82.6 13.75 85 137.5 236.3 329.8
Neil Keddy, WALES 41 95.0 15.75 140 200 355.8 316.1
Rouhol Uddin, ENG 39 74.5 4.5 105 195 304.5 305.8
Steve Shah, ENG 70 81.5 5.75 80 145 230.8 298.3
Dean Ross, USA 76 106.2 13.75 80 140 233.8 283.9
Flynn McLaren, AUS 16 69.6 15 60 170 245 282.7
LaVerne Myers, USA 75 104.0 17.5 50 160 227.5 275.6
Brandon Hazell-Hyland, ENG 17 75.5 4.5 75 140 219.5 229.5
Cameron McLaren, AUS 53 111.7 22.5 70 145 237.5 216.5

NOTES:   All bodyweights recorded in kilograms.  All lifts recorded in kilograms.  TOT is total kilograms lifted.  PTS are overall adjusted points corrected for age and bodyweight.

BEST LIFTER AWARDS

Womens Best Senior 20-39: Max Ell
Womens Best Master 45-49: Claire McLaren
Womens Best Master 50-54: Racheal Hin
Womens Best Master 60-64: Sylvia Stockall
Womens Overall Best Lifter: Sylvia Stockall
Mens Best Junior: Flynn McLaren
Mens Best Senior 20-39: Rory Hoad
Mens Best Master 40-44: John Strangeway
Mens Best Master 45-49: Philippe Crisp
Mens Best Master 50-54: Al Myers
Mens Best Master 55-59: John Douglas
Mens Best Master 60-64: Greg Cook
Mens Best Master 65-69: Peter Phillips
Mens Best Master 70-74: Barry Pensyl
Mens Best Master 75-79: Denny Habecker
Mens Overall Best Lifter: Greg Cook

Presidential Cup

By Denny Habecker

2019 USAWA PRESIDENTIAL CUP

Barry Pensyl (left) won the Presidential Cup Award.

Barry Pensyl (left) won the Presidential Cup Award.

We had a small, but talented group of lifters for the Presidential Cup this year. , Lou Tortorelli came up  from New Jersey to do an outstanding Trap Bar  Deadlift,  Dean Ross drove all the from Oklahoma to do some very difficult lifts , Barry Pensyl, from Easton, did some great lifting, and last but not least, my grandson Aidan Habecker did 5 very good lifts. Barry Pensyl won the Presidential Cup this year for his outstanding Allen Lift. The lifts were judged under the one official format. I was the only certified official.

MEET RESULTS

2019 Presidential Cup
August 3rd, 2019
Habeckers Gym
Lebanon, PA

Meet Director: Denny Habecker

Officials (1 official system used): Denny Habecker

Dean Ross  76- 238.5 Lbs [75-79] 110 Kg. class
Piper Squat- 121 Lbs.
Side Press – Dumbbell – Left Hand  – 10 Lbs.
Side Press – Dumbbell – Right Hand – 10 Lbs.

Barry Pensyl – 71 – 149 Lbs. [70-74] 70 Kg. Class
Cheat Curl  – 105 Lbs.
Deadlft – Index Fingers – 95 Lbs.
Habecker Lift – 198 Lbs.
Allen Lift – 29 Lbs.

Lou Tortorelli –  53 – 239 Lbs. [50-54] 110Kg. Class
Trap Bar Deadlift – 425Lbs.

Aidan Habecker – 16 – 204 Lbs [16-17] 95 Kg. Class
Jerk from Racks – Behind Neck – 132 Lbs.
Clean & Push Press – Dumbells  – 80 Lbs.
James Lift           45Lbs.
Habecker Lift   – 204Lbs.
Dumbbell Walk  – 55 Lbs.

Eastern Mass RB

By Mark Raymond

2019 USAWA 1st Annual Eastern Mass Record Breakers Day

Jacob McLaughlin and Michael McLaughlin competed in their first USAWA competition. Welcome to the USAWA!

Jacob McLaughlin and Michael McLaughlin competed in their first USAWA competition. Welcome to the USAWA!

The meet was a great success. We had 8 lifters all from Massachusetts.  It was held at Paulie’s Weightlifting Club in Braintree, Massachusetts.

Congratulations to Jeff Ciavattone who was overall champion of the meet.  Looks like he might be the next member of the USAWA Century Club!

Thanks to Frank and Jeff who officiated the meet.

A special thank you to Peter Vuono for loading the bar and cheering us on throughout the event.

And a special thank you Paul and Judy for hosting the event and treating us to a cookout afterwards.

Results are as follows:

USAWA 1st Annual Eastern Mass Record Breakers Day

Paulie’s Weightlifting Club, Braintree, Massachusetts

July 27th2019

Meet Director and Host: Paul Dallalis

Meet Announcer/Scorekeeper: Frank Ciavattone

Officials – Frank Ciavattone, Jeff Ciavattone

All lifts recorded in pounds

MEET RESULTS:

Lifters using the one official system:
LIFTER AGE WEIGHT M/F CLASS
Frank Ciavattone 64 301 M 125+ Kg/60+ Masters
Jeff Ciavattone 39 230 M 105 Kg/Open
Lifters using the three official system:
LIFTER AGE WEIGHT M/F CLASS
Chris Lestan 23 275 M 125 Kg/Open
Jacob McLaughlin 19 160 M 75 Kg/Open
Michael McLaughlin 51 206 M 95 Kg/50+ Masters
Mark Raymond 56 247 M 115 Kg/55+ Masters
Kimberlyn Lydon 28 160 F 70 Kg/Open
Paul Dallalis 62 300 M 125+ Kg/55+ Masters

 

 

Womens Division
Lifter Lift #
Kimberlyn Lydon Deadlift – Reeves 96
Deadlift – Ciavattone Grip, One Arm, Right 120
Curl – Reverse Grip 51
Deadlift – No Thumbs 200
Bench Press – Hands Together 96
Mens Division
Lifter Lift #
Jeff Ciavattone Deadlift – 12″ Base 600
Deadlift – Ciavattone Grip, One Arm, Right 250
Shoulder Drop 145
Snatch – On Knees 125
Gardner – Half 130
Mark Raymond Deadlift – Reeves 230
Finger Lift – Left Middle 102
Finger Lift – Left Ring 62
Deadlift – No Thumbs 275
Curl – Dumbbell, Cheat, One Arm, Right 62
Paul Dallalis Finger Lift – Left Ring 72
Finger Lift – Left Index 72
Finger Lift – Left Middle 72
Chris Leston Clean and Press 210
Steinborn Lift 245
Frank Ciavattone Crucifix 30
Deadlift – Reeves 185
Zercher Lift – One Arm, Left 135
Curl – Dumbbell, Cheat, One Arm, Left 60
Curl – Dumbbell, Cheat, One Arm, Right 60
Michael McLaughlin Deadlift – Ciavattone Grip 300
Jacob McLaughlin Deadlift – Ciavattone Grip 275

 

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