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A/BPU Powerlifting Single Lifts British Championships at the Arnold Sports Festival UK, NEC, Birmingham Report
Apr
The A/BPU Single Lift Championships of the British Powerlifting Union has absolutely wiped us out! In the middle of the busiest competition season, sandwiched between weekends that each held up to three powerlifting qualifiers around the United Kingdom we ran the biggest ever single lift event that ever took place in UK with 351 competitors […]
Nov
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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 […]
Aug
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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Competition Report from the A/BPU Single Lifts British Championships 2025 at the FitXpo, Bolton Arena
May
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 […]
Feb
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 […]
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