Lifter of the Month: Denny Habecker
by Al Myers
Denny Habecker "in action" at the 2012 IAWA Gold Cup in Glasgow, Scotland.
The month of November for All-Round Weightlifting contained one of the biggest IAWA events of the year – the Gold Cup. This year the Gold Cup was held in Glasgow, Scotland. The USAWA had three representatives at that meet, one of which showed “true grit” in even making it to the platform. For this, the USAWA Lifter of the Month for November goes to our USAWA President Denny Habecker!
This is the photo proof that Denny was "feeling under the weather" at the Gold Cup!
First of all due to Hurricane Sandy, Denny had travel difficulties even making it to the Gold Cup. His flight got rerouted through Germany, and it took him 24 hours to even make it to England before the drive to Scotland. To make his situation even worse – the night before the meet he came down with severe intestinal flu which would have keep most normal lifters away from the platform. However, Denny is a true champ and he wasn’t going to let a minor inconvenience like this keep him away from the meet. When it was his time to perform his Gold Cup lift – he made his lift in excellent fashion.
Congratulations to Denny Habecker for winning the November Lifter of the Month!!!