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So the team has made it back from the WPC World Powerlifting Championships 2025 in Durban, South Africa clutching a lot of gold and silver medals. They were victorious and a real asset for the A/BPU British Powerlifting Union RAW, Classic RAW and equipped powerlifting and bench only and deadlift only in Great Britain. We […]
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Aug
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Dr Emma Ylitalo-James is the founder and President of the British Powerlifting Union and started the federation in her spare time in 2012. She has the all time biggest female bench press at competition in history in the world across all age divisions in the 90kg class and is the biggest female bench presser of […]
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Jul
Jul
Below is the PDF sent out to all competitors with the full information about coaches, entry, flights times, weigh in the warm up details. This was emailed out to everyone but we are aware that email filters can sometimes block emails with attachments.
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The GB Team, all 216, went, lifted and conquered! Recap from the A/WPC European Championships 2025 in Wroclaw, Poland
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Jun
Jun
We arrived on the Sunday later than expected due to a delayed flight and therefore missed connection. The team had already started to fly in and we had so many of the team who had nevr done an international before I was a bit “worried”. Those of you who have done internationals with us know […]
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Competition Report from the A/BPU Single Lifts British Championships 2025 at the FitXpo, Bolton Arena
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May
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What a season this has been! Qualifiers are STILL running, 220+ people International team going to Poland, and we just ran the single lift championships at FitXpo. This was our third time hosting Bench and Deadlift Nationals within the FitXpo event, and even with the new venue, this was definitely the smoothest. Everything from weigh […]
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SILA! Massive weekend of A/BPU powerlifting saw some utter pandemonium at Manchester’s premium training facility, Strength Therapy, also known as SILA. This venue has hosted almost two dozen meets for the federation. Even though their outward Polish stoicism sometimes doesn’t betray it, the enthusiasm of the facility owner’s towards the world of strength and fitness […]