Gold Cup
By Steve Gardner
2022 IAWA GOLD CUP
Group picture of 2022 IAWA Gold Cup
What a super day at the Gold Cup 2022 in Belfast. Well done to venue promoter Stevie Shanks on a great job and I am proud to have been co promoter with my pal Stevie. Thanks to all the lifters who travelled to help make it a great day and big thanks to Simon for his great assistance too a real diamond.
The lifting was superb with great performances and lots of records were set and broken with lifters representing USA, Northern Ireland, England and Finland. We had the youngest lifter Phoebe Ames aged 12 of England to the most Senior being Denny Habecker from the USA aged 80.
A few firsts occurred yesterday….. Paul Hallam and I performed the first official two man one hand deadlift ( with right hand) since it completed the authorization process, and being certified as an IAWA competitive lift at the World Council meeting in October. Paul and I did this lift to honour Chad and Al from Kansas who famously first put this great lift into the all round lifting arena some years ago. I can see some lifters hitting big numbers with this one in the future…..
This Gold Cup saw the best overall lift won by a Shanks Lift for the first time, after the great performance by Chad Ullom. The proud winner of the Howard Prechtel Award for the best overall performance at the Gold Cup….. Chad Ullom from Kansas, USA who won with his terrific Shanks Lift of 332.5 kilos!
It was very close with Chad taking it with a score of 121.5 finishing just ahead of Timo whose magnificent Middle Fingers Deadlift with crazy weight scored 121.1. Phew it was close ( and Stevie Shanks was in third with an awesome Dumbells Deadlift scoring 110 points) well done guys…. and to all of the lifters!
Another great first was Mother and Daughter team: Hannah and Phoebe, whe performed the two person deadlift, the first Mother Daughter combo on the record books…. Well done both …!
Another great event for IAWA!
RESULTS: GOLD CUP 2022 RESULTS (1)