USAWA

Interesting facts: we had 74 lifters take part from 9 different Countries: 33 England 23 USA 8 Australia 4 Wales 3 Scotland 2 Ireland 1 Finland 1 Canada and 1 New Zealand…….23 female lifters, 51 Male, 8 Juniors, 20 Open Lifters and 39 Masters. And there were 47 Different lifts used in the Competition…

I have created a results file and a Top lifters ranking file, but at the end of the day everyone who put themselves out to join in and be a prt of this ARE ALL CHAMPIONS!!

You can also view the 3 Way Challenge Match results, which was the reason this whole thing came about, Frank Ciavattone wondered if i could arrange a match against his team, and i was speaking with my co promoter for the Gold Cup: Stevie Shanks and we were saddened at having to cancel it, then whilst discussing the recent ‘virtual stone lifting competition’ that had been organised earlier, we just hit on the idea and our competition was born……

Once again folks hope you all had a great time and like we said one day we will all look back on realizing what a great thing we achieved between us!

A fun competition to encourage social and physical interaction between all IAWA members wherever they may be around the World, should they choose to take part

There will be two lifts:

The first is the Ciavattone Deadlift (a simple lift anyone can do if they can get near a bar and discs)

The second lift can be any lift of the lifters choice that they can perform (any IAWA lift with a Blindt co-efficient)

It is completely unofficial, no referees no records, no entry fees etc …..BUT ……..lifters must wear proper lifting attire for the lifts, and lifters will submit what they believe to be their correct bodyweight!

The scores will be worked out using the Blindt formula and other usual formulas, but again it is just for fun and taken on trust, The lifts MUST be video’d and uploaded to the IAWA(UK) face book page on the weekend of 19th and 20th September. If the lifts are not completed properly or lifters are not wearing correct lifting attire, then the videos will be taken down and not entered.

The lifts should only be up loaded for inclusion over the 19th/ 20th weekend ( but can of course be completed and filmed any time before that date ) the competition closes at end of the day on the 20th September.

As there is no entry fee or other cost involved we will have T shirts with a striking logo on sale for this ‘one off’ Virtual event, so lifters can purchase them and wear them in their videos if they wish. These will be affordable at £12 each and ALL profits from the sale of the T Shirts will go towards Drug Testing at the ’International Events in 2021’ which we think and hope you agree, is a magnificent cause……..so get your orders off to Stevie as soon as possible to give time for your shirts to be posted out to you. The shirts will be purple with white print!

We are so excited, and hope as many as possible will join in and post their lifts, good luck everyone and have fun!

Steve Gardner will deal with the calculations for submitted lifts – stevegardneruk@gmail.com

Stevie Shanks will be dealing with the T Shirts orders – stevieshanks45@gmail.com