World Classic Championships

Congratulations to our teams at these championships where the Men came fourth out of 56 countries and the women came sixth out of 42 countries. There were many good performances, but top of the pile were Tony Cliffe who took the 120kg title in tremendous style and Inderraj Singh Dhillon who broke the World 120kg deadlift record with a fantastic 386kg. The coaching team did a great job ably led as usual by Henry Tosh.

Richard Parker and Will Brown attended the IPF General Assembly (GA) on behalf of British Powerlifting, which was held in a hybrid format for the first time. Delegates could participate via Zoom and the voting was electronic.

At the end of the GA Richard was honoured with induction to the IPF Hall of Fame; an award well deserved after many years service to powerlifting.

Will made his debut refereeing at a World championships and Richard did five stints on the jury. Paul Marsh also refereed before his coaching duties took over.

Vacancies

Two credible applications for Performance Director have been received, Interviews will be conducted in the next couple of weeks and an appointment made soon after.

We have received one application so far for Development Director, one application and one expression of interest for the Financial Director's job and one expression of interest for Competition Director. On the finance side, Tony Cliffe has been appointed Interim FD to help ensure a smooth hand over to the new FD when they are in post.

AGM Actions

The Non Lifting membership category is now in place. Will Brown has been tasked with looking into an on-line Divisional Referees exam as well as on-line participation for AGMs. for AGMs.

Special Olympics World Games

Congratulations to Geraldine Fitzsimmons on gaining three Gold medals at these games held in Berlin.

UKAD

We have now satisfied all 24 criteria of the UKAD Assurance Framework, which means we can now start discussions for them to take on our entire Anti-Doping Programme. Once this is done, our anti-doping rules will be those of UKAD rather than the IPF. This has been achieved after considerable effort by our Anti Doping Education Lead Chris Gilbert and the CEO as the designated board member for anti-doping, which is a UKAD requirement. However this is only Phase 1, working with UKAD is a continuous process requiring regular reporting and provision of evidence. on things like education and information sharing