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A/BPU Powerlifting Single Lifts British Championships at the Arnold Sports Festival UK, NEC, Birmingham Report

Posted on by Emma James
07
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 […]

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The A/BPU NEWSLETTER Volume 3, November 2025.

Posted on by Emma James
27
Nov

Please click the button at the bottom of the page to view the full 8 pages of the newsletter

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A/BPU British Team WPC World Powerlifting Championships 2025 in Durban, South Africa highlights

Posted on by Emma James

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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Meet the President of the A/BPU, Dr Emma Ylitalo-James

Posted on by Emma James
14
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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A/BPU British Full Power Championships 2025 Competitor Information Pack

Posted on by Emma James
01
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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So how did the A/BPU Manchester Central SILA Qualifier go?

Posted on by Emma James
24
Mar

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 […]

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A/WPC World Cup 2025, Cairo, Egypt

Posted on by Emma James
11
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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