The entries to A/BPU British Powerlifting Union Full Power British 2026 are having a last-minute surge and we are soon up to 450 individual competitors as the clock ticks towards midnight tonight, the final cut off. Combine that with the 350ish individual competitors at the A/BPU British Powerlifting Union Single Lifts British Championships 2026, and […]
Post Competition Report from the WPC AWPC European Championships 2026, Limerick, Ireland We had a huge team of 151 competitors going to the A/WPC European Championships 2026 in Limerick, Ireland. The team included the automatically qualified reigning European and World Champions as well as massive group of lifters qualified through our regional qualifiers, almost three […]
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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 […]
The A/WPC World Cup in Egypt this year was in Cairo in no lesser place than Giza, in sight of the Great Pyramids! An intrepid team journeyed to Cairo to compete against and with over 600 lifters through a 6 day stretch. The competition was held at the Steigenberger Hotel and Conference Centre right at […]
There is life after 40! The past weekend A/BPU ran its first ever Masters-only competition at the NEC FitXpo. Granted, we had few young ones in the Bomb Squad equipped bench challenge, but apart from that it was strictly Masters age lifters only. The winners of each equipment class were decided on coefficient of age, […]
Dr Emma Ylitalo-James, President and Founder It was an outstanding week at the A/BPU British Full Power Championships 2024. The way the federation is having to evolve changed the dynamics of the British. At first I thought it was for the worst…………… but read on. Last year we had 600 lifters over 8 days and […]
